Fractal architecture - Mark Seemann - NDC London 2022

Why is software development so difficult? A major reason is that you spend more time reading than writing code. If you can decrease the time required to read existing code, you can increase productivity.
You can decrease the time you waste reading complicated code by writing code that's easy to read - code that fits in your head.
Code should fit in your head at all levels of abstraction. At the entry point, at the business logic level, and at the lowest levels of detail. This is fractal architecture - code that is organised according to that principle of self-similarity.
Key to achieve fractal architecture are encapsulation, aggressive thresholds, and referential transparency. Code examples will be in C# - written in a style also readable to developers working in Java, TypeScript, C++, etc.
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Interesting, from a clean coding perspective the methodology removes the 10 lines of code limitation per function, to a maximum of 6 concepts in a function. It also deals with the code representation of an architecture, limiting it to 6 concepts per abstraction. To abstract the methodology (why not 🤡), you build a map-reduce function that fits in your short-term memory, where the dataset has at most 6 elements.