
Episode 520: John Ousterhout on A Philosophy of Software Design
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Layering Is a Great Example of a Deep Module
Systems, big systems, really don't decompose naturally into perfect layers. H t t p is anotherx ample of what i've read recently you can call the narrow waste. If everything boils down to bite streams or text, there's a narrow waste there. But not every system that we're building necessarily has that narrow ofa aste and maybe layerher doesn't apply as well in those other situations.
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