[notduncansmith]

I read this book in the first few years of programming professionally, and in my naïveté I was so eager to apply the patterns therein I missed out on many opportunities to write simple, straightforward code. In some ways it really hindered my career.

I don’t blame this on the book, of course; ultimately the intuition it helped me build has been very helpful in my work. With that said, as a particular type of feisty and eager young programmer at the time, I can now say I would have benefitted at least as much from a book titled “Designing Data-Unintensive Applications” :)