October 2017
Beginner
360 pages
7h 58m
English
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Chapter 7Create a Foundation with Patterns
For hundreds of years, engineers have captured solutions to common problems as reusable patterns. Software engineers follow this tradition as well. Seasoned software architects know many patterns. When facing a new problem, experienced architects explore their catalog of design patterns to find likely solutions before attempting to design something new. Once they’ve identified a suitable pattern, they’ll fill in details for the particular problem at hand and adapt it to meet their current needs.
Every software system employs a small number of thematic patterns as a foundation on which we make all other ...