Lessons of the Web
July 18, 2007
Many people have tried to come up with a definitive list of lessons from the Web. In this article I present my own list, which is firmly slanted towards the role of the software architect in managing competing demands over a large architecture.
Here’s his list:
- You can’t upgrade the whole Web
- Protocols must evolve
- Protocols must be decoupled to evolve
- Object identification must be free to evolve
- New object interactions must be able to be added over time
- Prefer low-semantic-precision document types over newly-invented document types
- Ignore parts of content that are not understood
- Be cautious about the use of namespaces in documents
- New content types must be able to be added over time
- Keep It Simple
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