In software engineering everyone would have heard about the famous design patterns, the book by the Gang of Four: Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph E. Johnson, and John Vlissides. (Indeed, if you don’t know about this book, one could put in doubt your software engineering credentials!)

In this post, we would like to highlight the less well known, but nonetheless very useful book by William J. Brown, Raphael C. Malveau, Skip McCormick, and Thomas J. Mowbray: “AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis.” Without awareness of the AntiPatterns, developers often end up implementing them in their projects unwittingly.