Architecture

For the last couple of days I have been thinking about the architecture for Project Sputnik. It is important that I get it right so that it doesn't bind the development to a particular path or style but rather lends itself to casual stop-start, flexible development whilst providing a solid, scalable, adaptable structure to build upon.

That may seem like a lot of buzzwords thrown randomly about to make it sound like I know what I'm talking about, but that isn't the case. My time is precious & I will be developing this in my free time so rather than waste time developing, ripping up & restarting then re-developing, I want to do it only once.

I am particularly focussing on the data-access aspect of the architecture right now. I would like to get a single point of access if possible, even if the DAL comprises multiple classes, but a single place to work on/tweak/adapt for differing data providers would be ideal. My concerns about this concept though are around performance, particularly in a many user scenario.

I will continue my deliberations and research for now.