Williams Méndez

Let's talk programming...or anything really


Published on Oct 30, 2019

In his book Clean Architecture, Robert C. Martin gives us a nice guide about how to build well designed systems; how to think about modules, dependencies, boundaries and how the information flows.

From all the interesting ideas one can find in this book, there are a few that I feel I remember very often during my regular work days:

  • Frameworks are tools, not ways of life.
  • Architecture must be independent from Frameworks, UI, DB and any external agency
  • Code Dependencies must only point toward Higher-level Policies

The last one in particular is an idea, a concept that I'm trying to live by. 

As a Python programmer, I've been always bothered by imports inside functions to avoid circular dependencies.  Every time I see or have to do it, I feel like something is completely wrong; I feel that dependencies are not pointing to the right direction.