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Onkar Mahajan
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πŸš€ SOLID Design Principles: Understanding and Applying the Open/Closed Principle (OCP) πŸ”βœ¨

πŸ™‹β€β™‚οΈ Ever added a β€œtiny” feature and watched a cascade of breakages?

The Open/Closed Principle shows how to grow features without poking old code.

In just 4 minutes you’ll see:

🧩 Why β€œopen for extension, closed for modification” keeps legacy bugs at bay

πŸ”„ A hands-on refactor from switch sprawl ➜ clean polymorphism

πŸ“‹ A pull-request checklist to sniff out OCP smells before they merge

πŸ‘‰ Read the full post:
https://on2k23nm.github.io/software-design/2025/06/02/SOLID-Design-Open-Closed-Principle.html

Drop your biggest OCP pain point below – let’s compare notes!

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