I struggle to understand how this happened, because Fielding is so explicit about the pitfalls of not letting form follow function. He warns, almost at the very

I struggle to understand how this happened, because Fielding is so explicit about the pitfalls of not letting form follow function. He warns, almost at the very beginning of the dissertation, that “design-by-buzzword is a common occurrence” brought on by a failure to properly appreciate software architecture. He picks up this theme again several pages later: Some architectural styles are often portrayed as “silver bullet” solutions for all forms of software. However, a good designer should select a style that matches the needs of a particular problem being solved. This problem is endemic in software architecture. Every time I read a criticism of Design Patterns most of the complaints about it echo text literally in the book itself. Each design pattern chapter has a long list of reasons why not to use it, but somehow that gets lost in translation.