Content tagged with "software design" (5)

The case for un-abstracting: once a shared abstraction starts collecting special cases and flags, inlining it back into plain duplication is cheaper than bending it further.

matklad on where architectural taste really comes from: reading large codebases closely and noticing which decisions kept them soft enough to change.

Feature flags are just if-statements with an expiration date, and the real problem is that most teams forget to clean them up.

You can pretend the layer below doesn't exist right up until it breaks, and then you'd better understand it anyway.

Most codebases aren't hard because the problem is hard, they're hard because someone made you hold too many things in your head at once.