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O Architecture! My Architecture!

 

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O ARCHITECTURE! my Architecture! The horrible coding phase is done;

The application is running, the functionalities they sought are crunching;

The release date is near, the yells I hear, the people all exciting,

While follow eyes the enormous classes, the functions snarling and yawning;

 But O Code! Code! Code!

    O the complicated and incomprehensible construct;

       Where on the UML graph my Architecture lies,

          Fallen cold and dead.

 

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O Architecture! my Architecture! rise up and hear the yells;

Rise up - for you should the people dance - for you should the customer go nuts;

For you the money and markets, for you their smile faces;

For you they'd wait, the expecting eyes and trembling hands;

 Here Architecture! Dear son!

    My arm beneath your body;

      It's some dream we had in the design phase,

        You've fallen cold and dead.

 

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My Architecture does not answer, those UML notations are pale and still;

My son does not feel my arm, he has no pulse or will;

The tests all passed, the branch is freezed and nailed, the shipping is near;

From lengthy code, the thrilling code, comes the functionalities we've been desiring

 Exult, O demos, and roadshows, O hypes!

    But I, with overwhelming fear,

      tear the paper my architecture lies,

        Fallen cold and dead.