Out Of The Tarpit, by Moseley and Marks https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master/design/out-of-the-tar-pit.pdf https://github.com/papers-we

Out Of The Tarpit, by Moseley and Marks https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master/design/out-of-the-tar-pit.pdf https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master... The first half of the paper is a spot-on critique of so many things that go wrong in the process of designing and implementing large-scale software systems. The second half, where the authors propose a solution, kind of goes off the rails a bit into impracticality... but they definitely point in a promising direction, even if nobody ever uses their concrete suggestions.