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Single Responsibility, the Distorted Principle
Argues that the Single Responsibility Principle is widely misunderstood as "do only one thing" when it actually means cohesive grouping of behaviors under a single accountable responsibility — and that over-granularizing classes violates the very cognitive simplicity SRP is meant to provide.
Jun 04, 2026 · tech · Henrique F. Teixeira, truehenrique.com
Topics
- software-architecture
- engineering-craft
- software-engineering
- systems-design
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- Engineering craft
Engineering craft is the accumulated discipline of writing, organizing, and maintaining software well — spanning code design, tooling fluency, communication, and the judgment to know when technical excellence actually changes outcomes.
- Software architecture
Software architecture shapes how systems behave under pressure, how teams reason about codebases, and how much complexity accumulates over time — spanning module design, state management, deployment topology, and the feedback loops that keep all three honest.
- Software engineering
Software engineering spans craft, process, and judgment — how code is structured, tested, reviewed, deployed, and maintained — and the sources collected here collectively interrogate each layer as AI tooling reshapes who does what and why.
- Systems design
Systems design spans how components are structured, isolated, and coordinated to handle real-world complexity, covering tradeoffs in state management, failure recovery, module boundaries, and the diagrams used to communicate it all.
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