Tag: over-engineering

Over-Engineering Culture, Hacking, and Complexity

Post author By Cate
Post date August 26, 2015
4 Comments on Over-Engineering Culture, Hacking, and Complexity

Bora Ultra Two Dark Cult (6) — Credit: Flickr / Glory Cycles

I was talking to a fellow escapee of The Conglomerate and we were talking about over-engineering culture. In the sense of “lol things built because it was time for someone to get promoted” and in the sense of complexity. The thing about layers and layers of (debatably necessary) abstractions is that they make things that should […]

Tags culture, development, hacking, over-engineering, Programming

Programming

6 Signs of Over-Engineering

Post author By Cate
Post date March 12, 2014
10 Comments on 6 Signs of Over-Engineering

tangled mess — Credit: Flickr / Martin LaBar

Sub parts of the Thing are described as “shared” or “reusable”… but no-one else is using them. The Thing has lots of unit tests, but few (or no) integration tests because they are so much harder to write. No one can explain clearly what the Thing does, because the generalised use case has obfuscated […]

Tags over-engineering, Programming