Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs

13 Keeping up to date with trends vs. cost of maintenance of your code

This chapter covers

• Dependency injection frameworks
• Reactive programming and processing data
• Functional programming in your code
• Lazy versus eager evaluation

With software engineering, new libraries or concepts emerge regularly (indeed, almost every week). As soon as you adapt your application or architecture to a brand new shiny framework or pattern, another one is developed and popularized. We have microservices, reactive programming, serverless applications, and so on. Each of those patterns offers many benefits, such as loose coupling, better performance, or less resource consumption. However, each of those patterns and libraries comes with its own complexities.

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