Clean Architecture IS about Vertical Slicing, actually!

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  • The Clean Architecture by Uncle Bob is famous for it's focus on clear separation of technical concerns. But did you know that when done right Clean Architecture has actually much more in common with the Vertical Slice Architecture than most developers believe?
    "The Clean Architecture", Robert C. Martin:
    blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob...
    "Screaming Architecture", Robert C. Martin:
    blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob...
    Vertical Slice Architecture - Jimmy Bogard at NDC Conferences:
    • Vertical Slice Archite...
    0:00 Intro
    0:21 How many developers seem to see CA
    1:21 Concerns
    2:07 What is "Vertical Slice Architecture"?
    4:32 Concern: Code Structure
    6:38 Concern: Coupling
    12:34 Concern: Unnecessary abstractions
    14:28 Conclusion
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  • @detaaditya6237
    @detaaditya6237 6 місяців тому +7

    Absolutely agree.
    I started to realize that clean architecture is actually more use-case oriented than layer oriented when I really started reading the book and watch the video from Uncle Bob himself. It is very misunderstood by a lot of people that they seem to care more about the layers, coupling all the features into them, mapping out which code should go to which layer, etc. which ironically kills the intention of clean architecture itself.
    Thanks for clearing things up! I really like your 4 Simple Steps to Implement Clean Architecture video as well.

    • @AboutCleanCode
      @AboutCleanCode  6 місяців тому +1

      @detaaditya6237 Thx a lot for your feedback!

  • @Sam-jx5zy
    @Sam-jx5zy 10 місяців тому +28

    The problem with focusing your attention on technical concerns rather than solving domain problems is that implemenations tend to become over engineered and over abstracted.
    Too many devs apply such onion architecture to small projects and completely bloat them to the moon when they good solve their problem with a lot less code. The vertical slice people simply have seen too many poor implementations of onions full of feature coupling hard to update and would hope for people to first learn vertical slicing, write simple solutions and then read clean architecture when they refactor it gradually as it increases in size and scope. Not start out like that.

    • @AboutCleanCode
      @AboutCleanCode  10 місяців тому +5

      @Sam-jx5zy thx for sharing your experience with the community! Starting with vertical slicing and then applying separation of technical concerns as the code base/design grows is a very good advice, from my perspective

  • @user-tj9gj2wx5d
    @user-tj9gj2wx5d 9 місяців тому +5

    I like watching someone new to me making their take on software architecture. It's a neverending discussion and you can always learn something. Thank you.
    I won't be giving my opinion on software architecture, but I want to say that it's hard. With the demand there is for software engineers, many people want just a plain simple guide on how to build software. I believe most SE would really like to build well designed systems, but the reality is it's probably comparable to art. This makes me believe that we either took a wrong path at some point or the evolution of software engineering is too slow.

    • @AboutCleanCode
      @AboutCleanCode  9 місяців тому +2

      I used to think of building software as an engineering activity as well but meanwhile I think it is more like crafting software. There are best practices and engineering skills are definitely required but it is also an art as well to some degree, at least from my perspective

  • @MichaelKafke
    @MichaelKafke 6 місяців тому

    Thank you. That use-case approach is exactly how I implement the clean architecture for years now.
    Much better to find your way around a feature and very simple, if you want to transfer a feature to a different project.

  • @adrianspikes6454
    @adrianspikes6454 9 місяців тому

    Good job! I tend to use vert slice on major features or classes that are intricate to the project. In land management their are two ways of doing it, lease based or tract based and any other class that is not crucial to those entities are not vert sliced. Ppl forget that the two archs can be used in same solution.

  • @Lexaire
    @Lexaire 7 місяців тому

    That has to be the best call-to-action end segment I've ever seen!

  • @Nothing_Else_Matters
    @Nothing_Else_Matters 2 дні тому

    Thanks for the very good explaining

  • @donnyroufs551
    @donnyroufs551 Рік тому +3

    Around 13:12, you made a reference to CA as a potential advantageous scenario within a software system containing 100k lines of code. However, I believe that this shouldn't be the sole determining factor. In my understanding, the uniqueness of CA lies in the division of the core into two distinct aspects: enterprise-specific (entities) and application-specific (use cases).
    If there is no compelling reason to integrate your domain with other services or you dont have a rich domain, then these two aspects can already be combined, leading to the likes of hexagonal architecture or just simply the dependency inversion principle. Not that there is much abstraction going on between the two layers but at the very least that one layer is also gone.
    Besides that, I pretty much agree. I kind of wish that Uncle bob revisisted CA and gave us his modern opinion. Considering he said something along the lines of " clean architecture can have as many layers as you want" but everyone just defaults to his example diagram or some kind of variant mixed up with onion architecture.

    • @AboutCleanCode
      @AboutCleanCode  Рік тому +1

      Interesting perspective - thx for sharing! I think there is also a value in separating entities and use cases if you only have a single application which has multiple use cases. Then each use case should be independent, from my perspective, and in entities you'll find the data structures and the rules valid for all use cases.

  • @jmrah
    @jmrah 4 місяці тому

    Wow! 11/10 my dude! Way to go!

  • @alireza136211
    @alireza136211 4 місяці тому

    Totally agree with all the points mentioned here

  • @kaioneal6160
    @kaioneal6160 10 місяців тому +1

    thank you

  • @luis1118
    @luis1118 5 місяців тому

    @AboutCleanCode should the different features be separated into different projects, or having different folders suffices?. Most solutions i see have multiple projects per feature but i often think having just separate folders is enough

    • @AboutCleanCode
      @AboutCleanCode  5 місяців тому

      I think both options are fine. The bigger a feature grows the more I would tend to a separate project

  • @PhillipKerman
    @PhillipKerman 10 місяців тому

    Great

  • @TellaTrix
    @TellaTrix 3 місяці тому

    Clean code arch and VSA are messed up

    • @AboutCleanCode
      @AboutCleanCode  3 місяці тому

      @TellaTrix What is your alternative proposal?

  • @vietanhtruong7344
    @vietanhtruong7344 10 місяців тому +1

    well thx for sharing, but i dont understand what the point here ? using Clean architecture with vertical slicing architecture is good or not ? or you just point out the misconception theory when some1 compare 2 kinds of architecture ? i want to focus on how to structure project by using clean architecture to ez understand the core business not by technical concern. If i was a member who just join the project, at least i would know which business i have to work with, not by technical concern (too many files, unnecessary seperation code base and so much time to read over project)

    • @AboutCleanCode
      @AboutCleanCode  10 місяців тому +6

      My point simply is: Clean Architecture is often presented as simple layered architecture which only foucses on separation of technical concern and from my perspective this is not correct. So in this video I want to show that CA and VSA has much more in common than usually assumed. Also CA focuses on business first, separation of technical concerns second - at least how I interpret it.

  • @federicobau8651
    @federicobau8651 4 місяці тому

    I think a big issue of developers, is over engineering stuff. Even more experience one may not notcie but they do it, learning too many concepts, model, framework and so on, trying to following strcitly you end up with this project that you show in the beginning, too complex. By Reading Clean Architecture, it should be something simple, no complex

  • @johnf7755
    @johnf7755 10 місяців тому +4

    Well said. So many straw man arguments against clean architecture from people that don't understand it.

    • @evancombs5159
      @evancombs5159 8 місяців тому +1

      No starwmans needed. Like with most things, what people take away from something is often not what was presented. A lot of the nuance is lost, and it can take on a life of its own. That means there are two types of clean architecture. The type that is most often seen and used is the horizontal layers where everything is organized by technical concern. That is what most people are arguing against.

  • @GnomeEU
    @GnomeEU 9 місяців тому +1

    Is there even one architecture that really works?
    If I look at enterprise projects then everything is 10 times as complicated and takes 10 times as much time to implement. So clearly its not better~

    • @AboutCleanCode
      @AboutCleanCode  9 місяців тому +3

      @GnomeEU From my perspective one of the biggest challenges of enterprise projects is that those projects are usually huge and that requirements constantly change as successful business do change over time. If we try to treat architecture and architectural decisions as "static" I think all architectures will fail at some point. But if we recognize architecture as a dynamic process of modeling the business, adopting change and managing complexity then we'll be able to find the right architecture for the right context.

  • @anasouardini
    @anasouardini 10 місяців тому +1

    Words...
    This makes no sense without code examples of many categories of software.

    • @AboutCleanCode
      @AboutCleanCode  10 місяців тому +1

      @anasouardini If you prefer code samples then you may want to watch this video ua-cam.com/video/6hIg86y9HuE/v-deo.html and this one ua-cam.com/video/1IE8RC-IOSE/v-deo.html 😉

    • @adriencbl
      @adriencbl 9 місяців тому

      Dsagreed, the both are needed.

  • @SmasherHell
    @SmasherHell 10 місяців тому +1

    You induce a confusion when comparing the two, clean is a layered architecture and a vertical sliced architecture and a ports and adapter architecture and a onion architecture.
    ISP and DIP lead to more complexity, but it is simple and easy to maintain. And it is a complexity exposed, not hidden behind if-else and switch witch are difficult to read and hard to maintain. The "unecessary complexity" should be defined, because complexity is in the business but also in the context around the feature. Abstraction allow to take cross-cutting concerns into account. User may not need it, but its business certainly does

    • @AboutCleanCode
      @AboutCleanCode  10 місяців тому

      Thx for sharing your thoughts. I can follow your argumentation 👍

  • @julian_handpan
    @julian_handpan 10 місяців тому

    Just use ruby on rails and stick to it!

    • @AboutCleanCode
      @AboutCleanCode  10 місяців тому

      @julian_handpan Yeah 😁 I used it around 10 years back and it was great for rapid app development but I cannot imagine using it for bigger projects 😉

    • @julian_handpan
      @julian_handpan 10 місяців тому

      @@AboutCleanCode you kidding right ? Does GitHub sounds to you ?🤣. Rails is by far the best framework out there.

    • @AboutCleanCode
      @AboutCleanCode  10 місяців тому

      @julian_handpan honestly I didn't know that GitHub is written in Rails 🤦‍♂️😂 Thx for pointing out! Nevertheless, me personally, I still cannot imagine developing and maintaining such a huge project in Ruby mostly because I would miss the compiler, the static code checks and the (strong) type system so badly - at least when I used Ruby more 10 years ago no such features did exist ...

    • @julian_handpan
      @julian_handpan 10 місяців тому

      @@AboutCleanCode give it a try, there’s a lot of new gems and tools out there!

    • @BuriTechVids
      @BuriTechVids Місяць тому

      ​@@AboutCleanCode The same is for PHP but suddenly there are newer versions of PHP (8.0+) which are much strictier (the development direction of a new PHP versions are to clean up the language and make it more strictier) and then for the things which are not done yet, we have tools like PHPCS (code sniffer) or PHPStan (static analysis tool). and so on.. And suddenly even an PHP is very strictly typped and suitable even for bigger projects. And the same applies to NodeJS (with Typescript), and so on.. Btw. even the GitLab is written in Rails.

  • @erickmoya1401
    @erickmoya1401 10 місяців тому

    Too much c#

  • @redhotbits
    @redhotbits 10 місяців тому +3

    everything bob wrote - got misunderstood, just stop reading his books

    • @AboutCleanCode
      @AboutCleanCode  10 місяців тому +10

      Or start reading his books multiple times 😉

    • @redhotbits
      @redhotbits 10 місяців тому +2

      @@AboutCleanCode is he some kind of a software jesus?

    • @alexanderpodkopaev6691
      @alexanderpodkopaev6691 10 місяців тому

      Indeed. Books he wrote were written in context, where they were actual and useful. But lazy minds started treating them as a 'Holy books' one has to obey without thinking.