Clean Architecture

In terms of “pre-made” ready meal-style architecture, some might claim to have been inspired by “Clean Architecture” or that they offer an implementation of it. That is extremely strange, suspicious even. I doubt they actually read and, what’s more, understood the book Clean Architecture by Robert Martin.

Sometimes, all these people do is implement at face value an architectural diagram that was given as an example in that book. You should stop asking for recipes and implementing them in a piecemeal fashion.

What Robert Martin really observes in his book, which we can consider a fundamental discovery, is that in “real architecture,” the one related to houses and buildings, we have blueprints that are easily recognizable in terms of the purpose of the buildings they depict. Architecture is about intent.

You can tell the different intentional functions of a building by examining its blueprint.

A cathedral...