Ever inherited a codebase where changing one thing breaks five others?
That’s rarely a coding problem. It’s an architecture one.
When you first join a software team, code organization feels simple. You put database queries in one folder, business logic in another, and UI routes at the top. It feels clean and logical.
Then the product hits real-world scale.
Deadlines tighten. Business models pivot based on user behaviour. Features get tacked on hastily over frantic weekends. What started as an elegant codebase slowly evolves into a tangled, unpredictable web.
