Tightly coupling features to particular things, such as customers, vendors, products, events or even hardware.
A real world example: A manufacturing company has made 12 different product lines for about 15 years. All software gets written around this fact. Suddenly, one day, there's a urgent need to expand it to more product lines because of a big contract with a certain big retailer. That's when things start to break all over the place because everything from the database to the front end is written specifically for 12 product lines. What the company did in this situation is to setup separate databases and apps for the new product line by making copies of the existing software. But there were other things tightly coupled so that didn't work. It almost sunk the company.
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Similar thoughts here, once had to maintain a system that was stuck on SPARC hardware and Solaris 2.0 because of a binary blob we couldn't change. The least worst fix was to facade & isolate the blob on a separate system near the cause of it's existence. Still fugly..
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Tightly coupling features to particular things, such as customers, vendors, products, events or even hardware.
A real world example: A manufacturing company has made 12 different product lines for about 15 years. All software gets written around this fact. Suddenly, one day, there's a urgent need to expand it to more product lines because of a big contract with a certain big retailer. That's when things start to break all over the place because everything from the database to the front end is written specifically for 12 product lines. What the company did in this situation is to setup separate databases and apps for the new product line by making copies of the existing software. But there were other things tightly coupled so that didn't work. It almost sunk the company.
Similar thoughts here, once had to maintain a system that was stuck on SPARC hardware and Solaris 2.0 because of a binary blob we couldn't change. The least worst fix was to facade & isolate the blob on a separate system near the cause of it's existence. Still fugly..