--- title: The Clean Architecture — Beginner’s Guide | daily.dev description: The Clean Architecture is the system architecture guideline proposed by Robert C. Martin. This is one of the guidelines adhered to by software engineers to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-clean-architecture-beginner-s-guide-emhugcjl5 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Clean Architecture — Beginner’s Guide | daily.dev og:description: The Clean Architecture is the system architecture guideline proposed by Robert C. Martin. This is one of the guidelines adhered to by software engineers to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-clean-architecture-beginner-s-guide-emhugcjl5 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/eMHugcJL5.png og:image:alt: The Clean Architecture — Beginner’s Guide 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. # The Clean Architecture — Beginner’s Guide **[Better Programming](https://daily.dev/sources/btrprog)** · 5 min read · 152 upvotes · 7 comments ## Summary The Clean Architecture is the system architecture guideline proposed by Robert C. Martin. This is one of the guidelines adhered to by software engineers to build scalable, testable, and maintainable software. The Dependency Rule states that the source code dependencies can only point inwards. ## 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. **@kkurko** · 1 upvotes > Clean Code and Clean Architecture from Martin are books every developer should read and understand and use all the concepts described. But you also need to have an understanding what "clean" means for your exact project and not to follow Martin's rules blindly **@zi683** · 0 upvotes > I learned what Dependency Inversion principle is & why we want to have a clean architecture. Very easy to read article! **@danielang** · 0 upvotes > terrific **@ujevicigor** · 0 upvotes > This article can help everyone become good and responsible developer. The only problem is knowing how to apply all these things, and that comes with experience and dedicated work. **@mothomnaodo** · 0 upvotes > thank so much ## 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 --- Tags: [#business](https://daily.dev/tags/business), [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-clean-architecture-beginner-s-guide-emhugcjl5) ```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":"The Clean Architecture — Beginner’s Guide","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-clean-architecture-beginner-s-guide-emhugcjl5","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-clean-architecture-beginner-s-guide-emhugcjl5"},"datePublished":"2022-01-12T13:21:41.105Z","dateModified":"2022-01-12T13:21:41.111Z","description":"The Clean Architecture is the system architecture guideline proposed by Robert C. 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But you also need to have an understanding what “clean” means for your exact project and not to follow Martin’s rules blindly","datePublished":"2022-04-02T11:06:54.041Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/eMHugcJL5#c-rYhZGkNQ-","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Kirill Kurko","url":"https://daily.dev/kkurko","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/58859242?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"I learned what Dependency Inversion principle is & why we want to have a clean architecture. 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The only problem is knowing how to apply all these things, and that comes with experience and dedicated work.","datePublished":"2022-02-04T09:51:04.246Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/eMHugcJL5#c-L17Tmqayw","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Igor Ujević","url":"https://daily.dev/ujevicigor","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--ea-Yhxrs--/f_auto/v1775480567/avatars/avatar_e881883279e740acb0596f65d9875bb7?_a=BAMAMiWQ0"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"thank so much","datePublished":"2022-07-06T09:15:38.138Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/eMHugcJL5#c-28iyie4WU","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Ghost Blade","url":"https://daily.dev/mothomnaodo","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--7IDvhMCO--/f_auto,q_auto/v1696147494/avatars/avatar_OkmEgxbsXc5k3LPGccF19"}}]} ```