We can learn so many things from software development and architecture principles. In software development, writing clean code is crucial; if you are a software developer, you would 100% appreciate the importance of clean code.

You might argue that the word ‘clean’ is a bit arbitrary here and what makes a code clean? Another thing you might say is that ServiceNow is a kind of low-code or no-code platform, so how is this applicable?
Let us look at the tenets of clean code and see how we can apply this to our ServiceNow implementation.

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When I started my ServiceNow career back in 2013 there were mainly three technical roles:

• System Admin
• App Developer
• Implementation Specialist

maybe those roles were enough at the time, however as the platform continues to grow ServiceNow introduced Architect certificate and also we now see a great emphasis on the architect role

so, What does actually ServiceNow Architect suppose to do ?

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I am reading great book at the moment titled Clean Architecture A Craftsman’s Guide to Software Structure and Design and I ask myself, is there anything I can apply from this book… i think the answer is yes! As ServiceNow professionals, can we learn anything from Single Responsibility Principle for example? I think yes again.

But first, what is Single Responsibility Principle?

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