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📅 April 14, 2022

The Worst That Can Happen – An Architectural Pattern

We continue on a series of new patterns and anti-patterns with “the worst that can happen.” This pattern uses fear and hyperbole to help us tighten up a design. We imagine what can go wrong and use that as a…

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📅 April 12, 2022

Technical Debt – Yes, That Is A Pattern

The idea of technical debt is a hot topic among software development groups. In particular, this concept shows up in agile efforts. While it is more a concept than a pattern, we can use this as a pattern for our…

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📅 April 7, 2022

The Cancer Pattern – One Place The C Word is Ok.

The Cancer pattern has a word we do not have a favorable view of. However, this pattern is becoming needed in more and more environments. This pattern is one for conversions and migrations. We do not always have a clean…

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📅 April 5, 2022

Keep It Simple – A Pattern To Avoid Complexity

We return to pick up a couple of new patterns. In this episode, we look at the keep it simple pattern and how to apply it to architecture. It is a pattern that we often overlook. However, it is an…

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📅 March 31, 2022

Misdirection Anti-Pattern : Solving The Wrong Problem

We looked at an incorrect focus based on faulty data analysis in our prior episode. This time we explore solving the wrong problem with the misdirection anti-pattern. While this situation can arise from the data bigotry anti-pattern, it is often…

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📅 March 29, 2022

Statistical Bigotry – Placing An Incorrect Emphasis

This podcast season is a great excuse to highlight new anti-patterns. We look at a new one we call statistical bigotry in this episode. That is an excellent emotional word and a common challenge across many areas of problem-solving and…

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