📝Not every system needs an architecture

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Fairbanks₂₀₁₀ p.281

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§ Software Architecture

Not spending time on architecture usually results in “Big ball of mud” architectural style. But that is fine for some systems.

If a system is small or has low risks, it is perfectly fine to not do any architecture.

Not every backyard storage shack needs marble columns. —Foote & Yoder, 2000