Whenever an activity occurs in repetition, such as programming, patterns emerge and can be documented. The benefits of documenting and using software design patterns are well established, as are some ...

Here on Hackaday, we’re generally designers of hacks that live in the real world. Nevertheless, I’m convinced that some of the most interesting feats are at the mercy of what’s possible in software, ...

Event sourcing is an architectural software pattern that's useful to design complex and distributed systems, particularly those that run many processes concurrently. The pattern captures and stores ...

In of this three-part series introducing design patterns, I referred to Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Design. This classic was written by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph ...

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