Overview
Machanism is a modular development platform built to create, share, and integrate reusable components, or "bricks," for tackling complex application challenges across diverse business domains and technologies.
By adhering to Clean Architecture principles, Machanism ensures that applications are scalable, adaptable, and maintainable, emphasizing the separation of business logic from implementation details. This approach allows systems to evolve and grow without compromising their core functionality or structure.
At the heart of Machanism are Seed Projects, which provide foundational libraries, workflows, and interfaces. These serve as a starting point for modular development, enabling customization through Applications and final deployment via MachaOn Projects.
Each project produces artifacts that are managed and used as dependencies, ensuring modularity while avoiding tight coupling between components. This design allows developers to reuse and integrate components seamlessly into their systems.
Guided by the mantra "Divide and Use," Machanism empowers developers to build systems that are flexible, reusable, and designed to evolve with changing needs. It’s a platform that redefines how complex software systems are built—by breaking them down into manageable, reusable bricks.
Audience
Machanism is designed for developers, architects, and organizations looking to build modular, scalable, and reusable applications. Whether you're creating standalone components, integrating complex systems, or optimizing workflows for specific business domains, Machanism provides the tools and structure to simplify development.
It’s ideal for teams who value Clean Architecture principles, flexibility, and future-proof design while striving to create software that evolves efficiently without sacrificing maintainability.
Rules
The main rules for Machanism projects focus on ensuring reusability, modularity, and maintainability across all components. Each project must deliver a functional artifact that solves a specific problem and can be seamlessly reused as a dependency. Relative paths are forbidden, and all dependencies must come from a centralized artifact repository, ensuring independence and clean versioning between modules. Projects must follow Clean Architecture principles, maintaining clear boundaries by separating business logic from infrastructure or framework-specific details. Components are organized into Core, Application, and MachaOn layers, with the Core providing shared logic, Applications customizing workflows, and MachaOn facilitating deployment. The guiding mantra, "Divide and Use," ensures that each part is independent yet interoperable within a larger system, creating scalable and future-proof solutions.
The Architecture
Machanism is built on the principles of Clean Architecture, ensuring a clear separation of concerns. At its core, Machanism places critical business logic at the center, keeping infrastructure, tools, and technologies on the periphery. This design ensures systems remain flexible, enabling them to scale and evolve with changing business needs.
Unlike rigid frameworks, Machanism doesn’t enforce specific technologies or tools. Instead, it fosters reusability, maintainability, and independence, giving developers the freedom to focus on solving business problems without unnecessary constraints. This approach makes Machanism the perfect platform for building systems that are adaptable and future-proof.
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Seed Projects
Seed Projects are the foundation of the Machanism ecosystem, providing pre-structured templates that define core entities, use cases, and adapters. They enable the creation of modular, reusable components (bricks) while ensuring compatibility and scalability. Acting as a starting point, Seed Projects allow developers to customize workflows and build separate libraries, paving the way for efficient, maintainable, and adaptable systems.
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Machanism: Divide et Usus!