• An anti-pattern in software engineering, project management, and business processes is a common response to a recurring problem that is usually ineffective...
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  • Anti-patterns are commonly used ways of doing software engineering that are not useful or cause more issues than they solve. See design patterns for the...
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  • AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis is a book about anti-patterns: specific repeated practices in software architecture...
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    more complex way of connecting objects. Critics of the pattern argue that it is an anti-pattern which obscures dependencies and makes software harder to...
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  • is a subset of the serverless computing ecosystem. The "Grain of Sand Anti-pattern" refers to the creation of excessively small components (e.g., functions)...
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  • Algorithmic skeleton Anti-pattern Architectural pattern Canonical protocol pattern Debugging patterns Design pattern Distributed design patterns Double-chance...
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    In object-oriented programming, the singleton pattern is a software design pattern that restricts the instantiation of a class to a singular instance....
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  • reduced observability. These anti-patterns are associated with the formation of a distributed monolith. These anti-patterns are often addressed through...
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  • domains. The following architectural anti-patterns can arise when architects make decisions. These anti-patterns often follow a progressive sequence,...
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  • model § Examples. Style guide Design paradigm Anti-pattern Dark pattern Alexander, Christopher (1977). A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction....
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    A dark pattern (also known as a "deceptive design pattern") is a user interface that has been carefully crafted to trick users into doing things, such...
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  • Poltergeist (computer programming) (category Anti-patterns)
    invoke methods in another, more permanent class. It is considered an anti-pattern. The original definition is by Michael Akroyd at the 1996 Object World...
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  • Anemic domain model (category Anti-patterns)
    The anemic domain model is described as a programming anti-pattern where the domain objects contain little or no business logic like validations, calculations...
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    Architecture. The following architectural anti-patterns can arise when architects make decisions. These anti-patterns often follow a progressive sequence,...
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  • specialists[who?] in this field who consider balking more of an anti-pattern than a design pattern. If an object cannot support its API, it should either limit...
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  • Database-as-IPC (category Anti-patterns)
    In computer programming, Database-as-IPC may be considered an anti-pattern where a disk persisted table in a database is used as the message queue store...
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  • God object (category Anti-patterns)
    methods, or some combination of both. The god object is an example of an anti-pattern and a code smell. A common programming technique is to separate a large...
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    The Universal Camouflage Pattern (UCP) is a digital camouflage pattern formerly used by the United States Army in their Army Combat Uniform. Laboratory...
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  • Lava flow (programming) (category Anti-patterns)
    In computer programming jargon, lava flow is an anti-pattern that occurs when computer source code written under sub-optimal conditions is deployed into...
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  • it is hard to get right. Some consider it to be an anti-pattern. There are valid forms of the pattern, including the use of the volatile keyword in Java...
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    computer programming workarounds are often used to address a problem or anti-pattern in a library, such as an incorrect return value. When the library is...
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  • Magic pushbutton (category Anti-patterns)
    The magic pushbutton is a common anti-pattern in graphical user interfaces. At its core, the anti-pattern consists of a system partitioned into two parts:...
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  • Action at a distance is an anti-pattern in computer science in which behavior in one part of a program varies wildly based on difficult or impossible to...
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  • Continuous obsolescence (category Anti-patterns)
    Forever). This last behavior is an example of a software development anti-pattern.[citation needed] Continuous obsolescence may also be intentional, for...
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  • software engineering, an amelioration pattern is an anti-pattern formed when an existing software design pattern was edited (i.e. rearranged, added or...
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  • Sequential coupling (category Anti-patterns)
    requires its methods to be called in a particular sequence. This may be an anti-pattern, depending on context. Methods whose name starts with Init, Begin, Start...
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    up with a worse result than the standard (a square wheel). This is an anti-pattern which occurs when the engineer is unaware or contemptuous of the standard...
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  • Inner-platform effect (category Anti-patterns)
    inefficient and such systems are often considered to be examples of an anti-pattern. Examples are visible in plugin-based software such as some text editors...
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  • Magic string (category Anti-patterns)
    their involvement in a project. Common issues that might lead to this anti-pattern as a result: Null != null or any variation where a data type doesn't...
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  • Hard coding (category Anti-patterns)
    program. Hard coding is often required, but can also be considered an anti-pattern. Programmers may not have a dynamic user interface solution for the end...
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