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🍝 Spaghetti Architecture: Causes & Fixes 🛠️

Tarun Telang
3 min readJan 27, 2025
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Is your organization’s tech landscape feeling like a tangled mess of systems and dependencies? Imagine it as a bowl of spaghetti: an overwhelming network of intertwined legacy systems, scattered across departments and business units, struggling to work cohesively. Welcome to the world of spaghetti architecture — a common challenge for enterprises managing legacy systems, acquisitions, and an ever-growing list of integrations.

If this resonates with you, don’t miss our brief video (2 min) on the topic: Spaghetti Architecture: Causes & Fixes. It’s a quick dive into understanding the problem and actionable steps to solve it.

But here, let’s go deeper.

What is Spaghetti Architecture?

Spaghetti architecture refers to an overly complex and entangled network of technological systems. It’s often seen in large enterprises where legacy systems have been patched and connected over time to accommodate growing demands. Mergers and acquisitions compound the issue, resulting in multiple systems doing the same job. Add in…

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Tarun Telang
Tarun Telang

Written by Tarun Telang

Prolific Author, Engineering Leader, Software Architect

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