1. Complexity & the World of Software Design

Complexity is the main challenge of software design; it cripples codebases and makes them difficult to maintain. We are in search of simple, battle-tested, repeatable ways to conquer complexity.

Chapter goals

  • Understand complexity and how it finds its way into software
  • Learn how to recognize complexity in code
  • Learn practical techniques to mitigate and overcome complexity in software projects

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This is an online wiki about the main topics over the last 40 years of software design, architecture & testing. It was created by Khalil Stemmler.

This wiki's mission is to help eliminate the unknown unknowns, helping you get up to speed on the best practices and principles to write testable, flexible, and maintainable code.

I created this wiki while I was connecting the dots on my own path. You can read more about that learning journey in the introduction

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