Stop Using Outdated Design Patterns — Modern Alternatives to Classic Solutions

Coding best practices for developers

After coding in Java for more than 15 years, I’ve seen design patterns go from revolutionary to routine — and in some cases, to downright obsolete.

When Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (the “Gang of Four” book) came out in 1994, it gave developers a shared vocabulary. We finally had a structured way to solve recurring softw…