Articles Tagged: coupling
Technical writings, opinionated architectures, and development guides tagged with coupling.
Every Feature Touches Ten Files
Ten files open for a one line change is either layering working correctly or one idea smeared across a codebase. The count does not tell you which, and git history does.
Nobody Wants To Touch That Model
Every Laravel codebase has a model people route around. Counting its lines is the least useful thing you can do to it, and extracting traits is how the count gets hidden rather than fixed.
The Job And The Controller Disagree
The same operation runs from two entry points and they have quietly drifted. In Laravel that drift has a predictable shape, because validation lives at the edge and only one edge has it.
Your Test Suite Is an Architecture Report
A slow Laravel test suite gets treated as a tooling problem. It is usually a coupling measurement, and the number worth watching is not how long the suite takes.