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chicken jockey

Great post! My mantra has always been: "Code is read far more often than it's written." Prioritizing readability and consistent patterns from day one saves countless hours down the line. It's an investment that always pays off.

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following architectural frameworks

Agree

For me, it's all about the foundation. I know the current world is based on fast-deployment but I employ real world thinking especially of how old housing was built where I live. See, I learned that the foundation of a building defines the future of it's expansion. It is the role of the architect to dig deep during the requirements and specs phase and read into the plans that an owner might have for the building, both short and long-term. Example: they might have hopes to build a 4-storey building but opt to build one storey based on financial constraints. The architect should be able to walk them through the possibilities one of them being that they can trade off the time to build a 4-storey foundation, put up the one storey building and it would be easier to expand in future should resources allow. They would also table the option of a one-storey foundation which might have to be taken apart in future to rebuild for a 4-storey building if/when resources allow. Understanding those options helps the owner make a decision that encompasses both their short and long-term goals whilst also addressing the maintainability of the structures. You might even recommend they consider building a temporary structure as a placeholder 🤷🏾

Write the code that "future you" won't want to refactor.

Great question. I’d love to hear what’s the single biggest practice others here rely on to keep projects maintainable long-term?

Spending thorough time on documentation and architecture design!