Big Ball of Mud - Revisited!
Big Ball of Mud (more likely Great Balls of Fire that will burn you down!) I am being mentored by Arun Batchu this semester looking into the exciting world of software architecture and as a self study we should look into this Big ball of Mud . I have read the page before and was also mentioned to me recently by my peer as we were discussing software architecture, Conway's Law , microservices architecture . The Big ball of mud page (1999) existed before the Agile Manifesto (2001) was conceived. This means that the observation that the authors wrote were noted before most of the agile processes ever existed but I somehow still observe the same kind of things (now more prevalent) in an agile world. Well I guess the forces that they have observed still applies to the software projects of the agile world. How would we consciously prevent ourselves from creating Big balls of mud ? I think that there is no clear answer to that because any software project will be constrained by