The Clean Architecture in Python
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN points to it as a practical way to separate business logic from I/O, which reduces mocking and underlies the functional core, imperative shell idea.
What it is
Brandon Rhodes' PyOhio 2014 talk on applying the Clean Architecture in Python. He shows how this high-level design pattern fits Python's features and addresses maintainability problems in large applications.
Recommended by 5 HN commenters across 6 different months, 2017 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec travisjungroth · 2021-03 · on “My Python testing style guide (2017)”
I'd really recommend this video. I had seen it years ago and just came back to it. It's about changing your architecture, one of the effects of that being changing how you need/use mock. [this video]
Recommends ceronman · 2017-04 · on “The Clean Architecture (2012)”
For the Python programmers, there is also a better explanation of the same concept by Brandon Rhodes: The Clean Architecture in Python. [this video]
Recommends chubot · 2017-06 · on “A theory of modern Golang”
I was going to write that I don't have a good pointer, but actually I think the idea is basically the "onion architecture" or "clean architecture". I don't recall if I watched all of this talk, but in general I like Brandon Rhodes' PyCon talks : [this video] [LINK] I don't come from a Java background, but I think that many of these ideas originated in the Java community. They came to Python later (if at all), and it's a little funny to see Go struggling with the same thing. I think I came at it from more of a functional programming perspective, and the style gradually converged with what people were thinking about OOP. I'm not actually of all the details about "clean architecture" and "onion arch
Recommends ceronman · 2018-09 · on “Functional core, imperative shell (2012)”
This is the same principle of the Clean Architecture. I like how Brandon Rhodes explain how to apply it in Python: [this video]
Recommends samrohn · 2019-05 · on “Ask HN: What are some of the best Python related talks that you have watched”
These are some of my favorites: Clean Architectures in python: [this video] Pandas from ground up: [LINK] How to write actually object-oriented python: [LINK] It's Time to Learn Regular Expressions: [LINK]
Recommends hprotagonist · 2021-05 · on “It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)”
"Promote I/O to management (where it can't do any damage)" is the actionably good thing i've taken from Brandon Rhoades' talk based on this: [this video] Living in a world where people regularly write single functions that: 1. loads data from a hardcoded string path of file location 2. does all the analysis inside the same loop that the file content iteration happens in and 3. plots the results ... that cleavage plane is a meaningfully good one. The rest of the ideas fall into "all things in moderation, including moderation", and can and should be special-cased judiciously as long as you know what you're doing. But oh god please can we stop writing _that_ function already.
Cites aszen · 2020-10 · on “Prefer Fakes over Mocks”
I have been researching into several testing approaches and so far in my experience yes fakes are better than mocks. But what is even better is not having to fake or mock stuff especially for testing business logic. One of the problems we get ourselves into is abstracting service io code into functions and calling them from our business logic code. This forces us to mock all the io calls, instead we should be doing the opposite i.e abstracting business logic into discrete functions of pure data in and out and then calling those functions from our io code. This way we can test the business logic independently of the io code. Testing the business logic now becomes quite simple and one can leve