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Architecture & practice·Design, structure and tradeoffs

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Layered architecture

Also calledn-tier, layering

Arranging code so that each layer may only call the one beneath it — typically interface, application, domain, infrastructure. It gives you a rule that can be checked rather than an aesthetic, which is why layering violations are one of the few design arguments a linter can settle. Layers stop paying when they become pass-through: four layers that each rename a field are ceremony, not structure.

Commonly confused with