There’s a beautiful software development concept named the Big Ball of Mud. If you’re not a developer (I’m not either but am a friend to a few), you may imagine software development as an elegant exercise in architecture, but that’s rarely the case. A big ball of mud is what most software looks like under the hood because budget, priorities, deadlines, skills, resources …
The big ball of mud
There’s a beautiful software development concept named the Big Ball of Mud. If you’re not a developer (I’m not either but am a friend to a few), you may imagine software development as an elegant exercise in architecture, but that’s rarely the case. A big ball of mud is what most software looks like under the hood because budget, priorities, deadlines, skills, resources …