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Long-lived Software
Software that still runs in ten years and can still be changed safely — the purpose of our work.
Also known as
Longevity · Software longevity
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- Software That Still Runs in Ten Years
- Reversibility over Prediction
- Business Logic Doesn't Belong in Controllers
- Data Modeling That Lasts
- Designing for Failure
- Security as an Architectural Property
- Mature Technology over Novelty
- Modular Monolith vs. Microservices
- Build, Buy or Configure — When Custom Software Pays Off
- PostgreSQL or MySQL for Long-Lived Systems
- Why Software Projects Really Fail
- Server-Side Rendering or SPA
- Laravel for Enterprise Systems
- Laravel Upgrades for Long-Lived Systems
- Idempotency in Distributed Systems
- API Design for Long-Lived Systems
- API Versioning Without Breaking Customers
- Legacy Modernization Without a Big Bang
- When Tests Really Pay Off
- Observability Is Architecture
- Zero-Downtime Database Migrations
- Caching Is Not a Performance Feature
- 5,000 Lines of Copy & Paste
- That’s a quick job.
- Once You Start Copying.
- Real-Time Without a Rebuild
- Changing Direction Early
- A Migration Is a Trust Problem
- Interfaces Outlive Implementations
- Software Is Never Finished
- Good Tools Amplify
- The Best Architecture Removes Components
- Symfony for Long-Lived Enterprise Systems
- When AI Is the Wrong Solution
- REST, GraphQL or RPC — Choosing an API Style
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