Sharp Architecture alternative

Question

I am looking Sharp Architecture alternative which use Entity Framework code first as ORM. Is there any mature project like Sharp Architecture with EF code first ?

Answer 1

Architecture is a blueprint. Once you see Sharp Architecture you should be able to simply think about it and change it to work with EF. If you are not able to do that you probably don't have enough skills with required APIs - that is th first thing you have to change before start dealing with architecture. No architecture will save you from understanding APIs and without understanding them you cannot do a good architecture correctly using features of your APIs.

Architecture should be driven by needs of your application. The approach where you want to bend needs of your application to fulfill some architecture blueprint is terrible wrong. First you have to define what should your architecture solve for you and after that you can ask if there is any blueprint already doing it (and nothing more).

Most of articles and sample architectures are just pushing a lot of patterns without actual need for them. Number of patterns and layers don't make a good architecture. In most cases it just makes the system overachitected and hard to maintain. These samples are mostly for explaining how to implement some patterns.