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📅 June 21, 2019

The Swiss Army Knife AntiPattern

A swiss army knife is a great tool to carry around with you. However, this anti-pattern tells us that building a one-stop-shop for your design functionality is a wrong approach. Several problems arise when you throw almost everything into a…

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📅 June 19, 2019

Architecture By Implication – An Easy Anti-Pattern to Fall Into

While experience is an excellent teacher, it is not a silver bullet. Every problem we tackle is a little different. Thus, we should follow best practices even when we think we have done this all before. When we instead believe…

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📅 June 17, 2019

The Grand Old Duke of York Anti-Pattern

The skills of writing code and abstracting functionality are not the same. This fact is why the Grand old Duke of York is an anti-pattern. Passing around essential tasks like design is not a practical approach. We should set up…

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📅 June 14, 2019

Design By Committee – A More is Less Anti-pattern

There is an old saw about too many cooks spoiling the broth. This statement roughly describes the design by committee anti-pattern. While two heads may be better than one for most problems, there is a diminishing return as we add…

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📅 June 12, 2019

The Warm Bodies AntiPattern – Not a Cool Situation

We all know that more is always better except when it is not. The challenge of quality and quantity is a common anti-pattern for software development. We take a look at it in this episode about the warm bodies approach.…

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📅 June 10, 2019

Autogenerated Stovepipe – An Anti-Pattern

In an effort to re-use our previous work, we can over-simplify a solution. One such situation is when we grow from a stand-alone system to a distributed one. This particular anti-pattern is a facet of the autogenerated stovepipe. Even the…

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