Clean Architecture: Stories of Pain and Joy From the Codebase [ukr]

Imagine you decide to save an old, worn-out ship by replacing its engines with the most advanced ones. But instead of “sailing into a bright future,” it starts sinking even faster.

This is a story about how Clean Architecture can become either a life buoy or a stone tied to a project’s neck.
The first part is a chronicle of pain: the attempt to bring architectural elegance into the chaos of legacy code, where even successes felt accidental — and why “We’re just doing Clean Architecture” doesn’t always work.
The second part is a story of “triumph”: when a mature team and the right approach turned Clean Architecture into the foundation of a scalable, flexible, and truly alive system.

Two stories from real practice that show why the same approach can both sink a project and save it.