Everyone Talks About Clean Architecture — No One Fixes the Data Layer

Clean Architecture is discussed everywhere — diagrams, layers, use cases, repositories.

But in real-world codebases, one thing is consistently ignored:

The data layer.

Most apps look clean on the surface, yet suffer from:

• DTOs leaking into ViewModels
• Repositories doing business logic
• Inconsistent caching
• No single source of truth

When the data layer is messy, no architecture stays clean — regardless of how perfect the folder structure looks.

This article dives into:

• Why most Clean Architecture implementations fail
• Real data-layer anti-patterns
• What a clean data layer actually looks like in Android + Kotlin

👉 Read the full article on Medium:

https://medium.com/@vaibhav.shakya786/everyone-talks-about-clean-architecture-no-one-fixes-the-data-layer-c7fedd66c06d

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