All your codebase are belong to Jenga

Someone designed the framework like a big game of Jenga. Every time someone went into fix something they pulled it out of the core and put it on top. Now the whole thing is unstable.
—Mark Jen, talking about building code on top of bad OO architecture

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8 Responses to All your codebase are belong to Jenga

  1. Adnan. says:

    That is a brilliant comparison!

  2. Dave Kellogg says:

    Reminds me of Long Term Capital Management. Bad stack. No one checked the assumptions.

  3. halle says:

    hey you! hope you are feeling better. your posts have been a bit technical lately. why not throw me a bone and post something fluffy?

  4. Mark Jen says:

    Haha, the part Terry didn’t mention was that I was referring to some of Tagged’s code base! :D

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