anti-pattern
description: common response to a recurring problem that is usually ineffective or counterproductive
42 results
Getting Things Done for Hackers
by Lars Wirzenius · 15 Jun 2012 · 32pp · 10,468 words
are often on many discussion mailing lists, each of which goes into its own folder. Each such folder would be a separate inbox. A common anti-pattern for people is to keep e-mail in their inboxes. They read it, and leave it there. The next time they read e-mail, there
Learning Ansible 2 - Second Edition
by Fabio Alessandro Locati · 21 Nov 2016
hard to manage up to that point, creating new challenges. Also, at every major shift, many best practices of the previous iteration are classified as anti-patterns and new best practices are created. Although it might appear that those changes are impossible to predict, this is not always true. Obviously, it is
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned From Programming Over Time
by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck and Hyrum Wright · 17 Mar 2020 · 214pp · 31,751 words
using automated tooling. Reasons for making a large-scale change vary, but the changes themselves generally fall into a few basic categories: Cleaning up common anti-patterns using codebase-wide analysis tooling Replacing uses of a deprecated library features Enabling low-level infrastructure improvements, such as compiler upgrades Moving users from an
REST API Design Rulebook
by Mark Masse · 19 Oct 2011 · 153pp · 27,424 words
request methods should be used to indicate which CRUD function is performed. For example, this API interaction design is preferred: DELETE /users/1234 The following anti-patterns exemplify what not to do: GET /deleteUser?id=1234 GET /deleteUser/1234 DELETE /deleteUser/1234 POST /users/1234/delete * * * [20] Web Resource Modeling Language (WRML
Forge Your Future with Open Source
by VM (Vicky) Brasseur · 266pp · 79,297 words
increasing the scope (and therefore also the risk as well as the time to complete) for the feature or bug fix. Scope creep is an anti-pattern in software development and should be avoided by any means possible. scrollback In real-time chat systems, the conversation that occurred while you were away
Sass and Compass for Designers
by Ben Frain · 24 Apr 2013
't necessarily mean they are right to use all the time. Practically, we have already considered that things such as over-nesting rules can produce anti-patterns in our generated code. In the same vein, consider whether other practices that are now more easily achievable with Sass and Compass are actually the
Technical Blogging: Turn Your Expertise Into a Remarkable Online Presence
by Antonio Cangiano · 15 Mar 2012 · 315pp · 85,791 words
and its competitors delivered by an established community pundit. http://thedailywtf.com: Daily examples of bad programming. Reason to read it: To learn more about anti-patterns in programming, and for the amusement. http://igvita.com: HOWTO articles on cutting-edge open source technologies. Reason to read it: To learn how to
The Art of Scalability: Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise
by Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher · 1 Dec 2009
planning core functionality through integration, testing, and much more • Includes multiple real-world case studies, dozens of patterns, and a full chapter of must-avoid “anti-patterns” In this book, leading enterprise mashup expert Michael Ogrinz provides more than fifty new patterns that cover virtually every facet of enterprise mashup development, from
Lessons-Learned-in-Software-Testing-A-Context-Driven-Approach
by Anson-QA
the standard. Later, we concluded that the problem must be deeper because it was widespread, and it snared people who we respected. The pattern (or anti-pattern) that we saw was that a test group would create or borrow a template and invest a substantial initial burst of paperwork- filling energy that
Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
by Ken Kocienda · 3 Sep 2018 · 255pp · 76,834 words
Jobs famously disbanded such an organization at Apple, the Advanced Technology Group, shortly after he reasserted control over the company in 1997. These kinds of anti-patterns can prevent creative selection from functioning correctly, since they block the steady accumulation of positive change while developing a product. They’re not the only
Python Tricks: The Book
by Dan Bader · 14 Oct 2017 · 262pp · 60,248 words
Team Geek
by Brian W. Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman · 6 Jul 2012 · 209pp · 54,638 words
Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business
by David J. Anderson · 6 Apr 2010 · 318pp · 78,451 words
The Rust Programming Language
by Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols · 14 Jun 2018 · 821pp · 178,631 words
Speaking JavaScript: An In-Depth Guide for Programmers
by Axel Rauschmayer · 25 Feb 2014 · 692pp · 95,244 words
Developing Backbone.js Applications
by Addy Osmani · 21 Jul 2012 · 420pp · 79,867 words
Succeeding With AI: How to Make AI Work for Your Business
by Veljko Krunic · 29 Mar 2020
Programming Android
by Zigurd Mednieks, Laird Dornin, G. Blake Meike and Masumi Nakamura · 15 Jul 2011
The Art of Monitoring
by James Turnbull · 1 Dec 2014 · 514pp · 111,012 words
Graph Databases
by Ian Robinson, Jim Webber and Emil Eifrem · 13 Jun 2013 · 201pp · 63,192 words
Building Microservices
by Sam Newman · 25 Dec 2014 · 540pp · 103,101 words
ZeroMQ
by Pieter Hintjens · 12 Mar 2013 · 1,025pp · 150,187 words
Jenkins Continuous Integration Cookbook
by Alan Berg · 15 Mar 2012 · 372pp · 67,140 words
The Practice of Cloud System Administration: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services, Volume 2
by Thomas A. Limoncelli, Strata R. Chalup and Christina J. Hogan · 27 Aug 2014 · 757pp · 193,541 words
Exploring ES6 - Upgrade to the next version of JavaScript
by Axel Rauschmayer · 3 Oct 2015
The Nature of Software Development: Keep It Simple, Make It Valuable, Build It Piece by Piece
by Ron Jeffries · 14 Aug 2015 · 444pp · 118,393 words
Kill It With Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems
by Marianne Bellotti · 17 Mar 2021 · 232pp · 71,237 words
Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff and Niall Richard Murphy · 15 Apr 2016 · 719pp · 181,090 words
Advanced Software Testing—Vol. 3, 2nd Edition
by Jamie L. Mitchell and Rex Black · 15 Feb 2015
User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product
by Jeff Patton and Peter Economy · 14 Apr 2014 · 289pp · 80,763 words
Hands-On Functional Programming in RUST
by Andrew Johnson · 29 May 2018 · 303pp · 57,177 words
The Productive Programmer
by Neal Ford · 8 Dec 2008 · 224pp · 48,804 words
Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems
by Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship, Ana Oprea, Piotr Lewandowski and Adam Stubblefield · 29 Mar 2020 · 1,380pp · 190,710 words
The Architecture of Open Source Applications
by Amy Brown and Greg Wilson · 24 May 2011 · 834pp · 180,700 words
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann · 17 Jun 2019
Culture & Empire: Digital Revolution
by Pieter Hintjens · 11 Mar 2013 · 349pp · 114,038 words
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais · 16 Sep 2019
Principles of Web API Design: Delivering Value with APIs and Microservices
by James Higginbotham · 20 Dec 2021 · 283pp · 78,705 words
API Design Patterns
by Jj Geewax · 19 Jul 2021 · 725pp · 168,262 words
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
by Eliezer Yudkowsky · 11 Mar 2015 · 1,737pp · 491,616 words
Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions
by Bill Scott and Theresa Neil · 15 Dec 2008 · 504pp · 67,845 words
Designing Social Interfaces
by Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone · 30 Sep 2009 · 518pp · 49,555 words