Architecture Digest

Feb 19, 2017 · Fundamentals

Why Software Architectures Decay Over Time and How to Mitigate It

This article examines why long‑running software projects experience architectural decay, the limitations of new frameworks, and presents practical solutions such as environment upgrades, phased and distributed builds, refactoring into isolated components, and adopting modular, loosely‑coupled platform‑plus‑application designs to sustain development productivity.