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Component Boundaries: Cohesion, Coupling, Afferent/Efferent

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Curriculum surface

  • Open learner-facing unit
  • Curriculum path: content/curriculum/architecture/semester-07-architecture-ddd/module-02-architecture-patterns-modular/concepts/cluster-02-modular-monoliths-and-component-based/05-component-boundaries-cohesion-coupling-afferent-efferent-primary.md
  • App: architecture
  • Semester: semester-07-architecture-ddd
  • Module: module-02-architecture-patterns-modular
  • Unit kind: concept
  • Curation level: module_curated

Learning objectives

  • Explain Component Boundaries: Cohesion, Coupling, Afferent/Efferent as a choice among modular structures and coupling tradeoffs, not as a pattern-name checklist.
  • Use Component Boundaries: Cohesion, Coupling, Afferent/Efferent to predict how change, testing, deployability, and team coordination will behave in a real codebase.
  • Use fundamentals-of-software-architecture to connect the learner page to modular boundaries, dependency direction, and architectural style tradeoffs.

Prerequisites

  • Comfort with architecture fundamentals and quality-attribute reasoning from module 01.

Source books

  • fundamentals-of-software-architecture

Source routes

Fundamentals Of Software Architecture

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Source-of-truth note

This teaching unit is learner-facing guidance. Its canonical source backbone is the referenced book fundamentals-of-software-architecture, and outside material should only clarify or strengthen that backbone.