OnModularity

About Modularity

Theory

• HerbertSimon and TheArchitectureOfComplexity
• SixOperatorsOfModularity
• Meyers on Modularity :
  • http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/meyers-definition-of-modularity/view

The right and wrong modularity

• On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules : http://www.acm.org/classics/may96/
• ModularityAndArchitecture
• TestingAndModularity
• CommunicationBetweenModules
• ModularityMistakes in various places :
  • TheCityAsInformationSystem
• ModulesInTime
  • DecompositionByLanguageIsProbablyAModularityMistake
  • OutSourcingAsAModularityMistake
  • Implicit criticisms of conventional modularization: SubsumptionArchitecture
• LawOfDemeter

Dynamics of Modularity, shifting things around until you find the right modularity

• economics : ConservationOfModularity
• in software, stuff on ReFactoring
• RecommendationArchitecture
• SystemEvolvingTowardsMoreSmallerSpecialistComponents
• OnContainerization
• OnBundling

• CakeLanguage for joining modules that weren't intended to be joined.

There should be some connection between theories of modularity and some of the ideas of "composability" discussed on AnEasyInterface

• http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edgeperspectives/2006/07/unbundlingand_.html

See also OnSystems, OnGranularity