--- title: SOLID Software Design | daily.dev description: SOLID is an acronym for five computer programming principles intended to make software designs more maintainable and avoid refactoring and code rot. SOLID... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/solid-software-design-fnhapzll twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: SOLID Software Design | daily.dev og:description: SOLID is an acronym for five computer programming principles intended to make software designs more maintainable and avoid refactoring and code rot. SOLID... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/solid-software-design-fnhapzll og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/FnHaPzlL-.png og:image:alt: SOLID Software Design og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # SOLID Software Design **[Faun](https://daily.dev/sources/faun)** · 6 min read · 63 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary SOLID is an acronym for five computer programming principles intended to make software designs more maintainable and avoid refactoring and code rot. SOLID stands for: S: Single-responsibility principle O: Open–closed principle L: Liskov substitution principle I: Interface segregation principle D: Dependency inversion principle. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@josetorres** · 0 upvotes > Very well written and with good samples too. **@manumathew23** · 0 upvotes > Looking for the same article in Python **@dorothiviki** · 0 upvotes > Nice article **@ghost** · 0 upvotes > Must read! ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/solid-software-design-fnhapzll) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"SOLID Software Design","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/solid-software-design-fnhapzll","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/solid-software-design-fnhapzll"},"datePublished":"2021-07-19T06:23:11.901Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":"SOLID is an acronym for five computer programming principles intended to make software designs more maintainable and avoid refactoring and code rot. 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