Sometimes the best way to understand what good looks like is to look at the opposite. By understanding common anti-patterns, we can better understand Agile. Much has been written about the positive ...

Antipatterns are no longer purely framework-based and more pernicious as a result. Many antipatterns are the result of poor interactions between the Agile team and the wider system. Systems Thinking ...

Software engineering is about solving problems. Every engineer knows the thrill of writing code that just works and resolves a once-intractable problem. The best solutions get used and reused to ...

In the previous instalment of this three part series, I examined the ‘Worker Aggregation’ anti-pattern. I also listed a number of ways to modify it so as to reduce the probability of its ...

As opposed to more traditional server models, in serverless computing/architectures you pay for compute time used as well as potentially read/write requests to cloud provider integrated services.

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Learn the potential pitfalls of using the repository pattern, including adding an extra layer of abstraction when it's not needed in your software designs Design patterns provide proven solutions to ...