Things You Should Never Do, Part I¶
Spolsky, J. (2000). Things You Should Never Do, Part I.
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Domain-specific¶
- Strangler Fig Pattern
- Rather than halting development to build a replacement system off to the side and then attempting a single cutover — the "big bang rewrite" whose failure mode Joel Spolsky described in "Things You Should Never Do"
This sourceSpolsky's essay on rewriting working code from scratch as 'the single worst strategic mistake', with Netscape 6 as the case.
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- Rather than halting development to build a replacement system off to the side and then attempting a single cutover — the "big bang rewrite" whose failure mode Joel Spolsky described in "Things You Should Never Do"
Mechanisms¶
- Parity-Then-Expansion Gate
- It is the concrete embodiment of the hard-won warning against rewrites that chase the new before reproducing the old, where the successor's biggest risk is shipping something that has forgotten what the first system quietly did right.
This sourceWarns that rewrites discard accumulated fixes and working behavior, leaving successor systems late and functionally incomplete.
- It is the concrete embodiment of the hard-won warning against rewrites that chase the new before reproducing the old, where the successor's biggest risk is shipping something that has forgotten what the first system quietly did right.
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