For a long time, I have considered that to build a complex system, you had to take a lot of care in the design phase, and this design phase should happen at the beginning of the project. You should carefully define your architecture and anticipate future needs in order to …

The term "API," which stands for Application Programming Interface, has been a fundamental concept in computer science from its inception. Whenever you develop a function, create a class, or establish an entry point, you are essentially defining an API. However, the crucial question is: Who will be using your APIs …

Tests are an essential part of development. Well tested application have more line of code in tests than in actual code. But not all tests are equals and, unfortunately, some tests are written only for the sake of reaching a code coverage target or making QA happy to see test …

I will talk about an antipattern I've encountered a few time, but I didn't find it in literature, so I called it the "Chevron antipattern". Let-me know if you recognize it and if it has a true name 😉

Class Diagram

Let's start by an example. Assume you develop an application …

Data allocation/deallocation may represent a significant amount of time in a processing workflow. In this article, we will see how to adress this issue with the Resource Pool Pattern.

What is your problem ?

Imagine we build an image processing pipeline acting on a movie. All images have the same …

When talking about clean code, DRY - Don't Repeat Yourself - often comes into place. DRY is a good practice. Two codes having the same purpose should be merged into single one. Unfortunately when a good practice becomes a dogma, it quickly becomes badly applied, and whenever two codes looks alike, developers …

Non-developer often imagine developer as people who just write code. Actually, some developers also imagine themselves as people who just write code. The point is that a person that just write code is not a developer. It is a coder. Nowadays, developers are no more that neardy guy writing strange …

When dealing with Object-oriented programming, whatever the langage we use, we generally face to two kind of objects which are conceptually different: objects which represent a Value, and objects which represent an Entity.

Value semantic

An object has a Value semantic if object is refered by its value (\<=> value of …