# When Clean Architecture Overhead Is Justified in Larger Projects

DevFeed: [When Clean Architecture Overhead Is Justified in Larger Projects](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/clean-architecture-is-overhead-26177.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://journal.optivem.com/p/clean-architecture-is-overhead>)

Author: Valentina Jemuović

Published: 2026-07-28T06:01:50Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Optivem Journal](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/optivem-journal.md>)

Topics: [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [Object-relational mapping](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/orm.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>)

Tags: [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [clean-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clean-architecture.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [orm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/orm.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that Clean Architecture adds real overhead through extra interfaces, abstractions, indirection, and separate domain and ORM entities. It contends that this trade-off becomes worthwhile as midsize and enterprise projects grow, because decoupling business logic from infrastructure and database structures makes change easier.

## Source excerpt

Stop counting lines of code