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Stop myself from over-complicating applications

Recently I worked on a fairly large project involving C# and MVVM. This application had around 160 projects in the solutions each seprarated into their own layers. As I have been working on this application for almost a year, building it from scratch as part of a team, I am now coming off that project and onto smaller more trivial projects.

Accessing Repositories from Domain

Say we have a task logging system, when a task is logged, the user specifies a category and the task defaults to a status of ‘Outstanding’. Assume in this instance that Category and Status have to be implemented as entities. Normally I would do this:

Futures/Monads vs Events

In an application framework
when performance impact can be ignored (10-20 events per second at max),
what is more maintainable and flexible to use as a preferred medium for communication between modules – Events or Futures/Promises/Monads?

Should I use a workflow engine?

I need to add some new features to a PHP application. It is to follow the steps of a order. A process create some orders, the order goes to confirmation, then if approved is sent to a provider, later the provider confirm that can deliver the order, a request is made to the provider and so on…

When is a Use Case layer needed?

In his blog post The Clean Architecture Uncle Bob suggests a 4-layer architecture. I understand the separation between business rules, interfaces and infrastructure, but I wonder if/when it’s necessary to have separate layers for domain objects and use cases. What added value will it bring, compared to just having the uses cases as “domain services” in the domain layer?