Importance of software architecture

Software architecture, no matter if you are building frontend, backend, native app, desktop application or any other system, it matters. Without it, it's super hard to continuously innovate on top of it.

Here are few problems to highlight importance of software architecture

If there is no proper separation of concern, a simple change may take a large effort.

If third party services are not abstracted away, it would be hard to replace them.

If the relation between various components are not done right, it would be hard to write automated tests for them.