Don Wise

Kirkland, WA, United States
Avid adventurist, engineer, and life enthusiast.

Architecture And Design

Topics that are surrounding general engineering and architecture rigor.

The Singleton, there can only be one!

The Singleton is one of the most common design patterns you will see in code. The pattern alone can provide an easy and straightforward solution to...

April 11, 2021
Architecture And Design

How To Deliver And Conduct A Strong Technical Design Reviews

An effective tool for building a new feature similar to the code review is the design review. The biggest distinguishing factor is that design reviews happen...

February 1, 2021
Architecture And Design

How To Use SOLID for Object-Oriented and Functional Programming

SOLID is an acronym that I’ll break down in this article that caters specifically to Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) paradigms. With Functional Programming (FP) also becoming more...

May 27, 2020
Architecture And Design

How To Identify And Reduce Repetitive Code

Reducing repetitive code is an important skill to keep technical debt in a codebase to a minimum. Knowing why, when, and how to reduce duplication is...

May 27, 2020
Architecture And Design

How To Portray Strong Code Review Etiquette

Code reviews (also referred to as Pull Requests popularized by Git) are tools for software engineers to maintain a healthy balance of mentorship, teaching, and code...

May 27, 2020
Architecture And Design

How To Avoid Disaster By Mitigating Coupled Concerns

“Tight coupling” is where logic centered around doing a thing is spread across multiple places, which is never good for long term code maintenance. Tightly coupled...

May 27, 2020
Architecture And Design

How To Use Technical Design To Improve Your Code

Software engineers from those graduating from coding boot camps or college to seasoned experts are continually trying to improve their skills. Mastering technical design is the...

May 27, 2020
Architecture And Design

How To Tell The Difference: Software Engineers Versus Developers

I often talk to recruiters, hiring managers, people in the field and always hear about “love to code,” code katas, and being a code ninja. While...

August 22, 2019
Architecture And Design

Avoid Tight Coupling With Cross-Cutting Concerns That Will Erode Projects

Cross-cutting concerns are essential to identify and isolate as your application grows. Failure to do so could lead to feeling you will have to commit to...