Architecture before code

Johan Louwers
4 min readMay 16, 2021

Regardless of how you develop code, regardless of the fact you might or might not have implemented an agile way of working, fully embraced DevOps and regardless of the fact you develop traditional or cloud native solutions some rules still apply.

Something that surprises me again and again is that some companies tend to forget the “architecture before code” or “think before doing” rules. I know it is tempting, even very tempting, to dive into writing code first to solve a problem however over the years I have learned the hard way that that is not the right way of developing enterprise…

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Johan Louwers

Johan Louwers is a technology enthousiasts with a long background in supporting enterprises and startups alike as CTO, Chief Enterprise Architect and developer.