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There is a paper on "balls of mud" that I feel is essential reading for our discipline. http://www.laputan.org/mud/ http://www.laputan.org/mud/
by lidHanteyk 7y ago
There is a paper on "balls of mud" that I feel is essential reading for our discipline. http://www.laputan.org/mud/ http://www.laputan.org/mud/
- tanseydavid 7y agoThank you for reminding of this paper. It is fascinating to me that the content (written 20 years ago) reads like an up-to-the-minute description of the madness of IT today. The continual repetition of anti-patterns is so widespread and commonplace that it is clear to me that expediency will almost always win-out against any engineering prudence. Expediency gets assigned highest priority -- typically without any real reasoning. The negative effects accrue slowly but consistently -- and correcting for the shortcoming gets consistently more difficult. The condition is then self-perpetuating.