You're Building Software Wrong

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Imagine software as a square. A square has four sides—top, bottom, left, and right. In this metaphor, that square represents your software product in its entirety. Every piece of your project exists within it.

Now, let’s focus on two key edges: the top and the bottom. The top edge represents the surface that users interact with directly. If you’re building a web application, this would be your user interface (UI). Below that, supporting the UI, is everything else—your backend services, infrastructure, databases—extending all the way down to the bottom edge.