Design patterns in software engineering
In the engineering domain, a pattern indicates a common approach or strategy that can be reused. This reuse helps us to understand engineering problems and solve them easily by following the solution pattern that has been made available to us by prior engineers. That’s why, when we need to serve a website, we do not have to go back to the theory and try to reinvent the wheel every time. We know the pattern required to serve the web application, which makes our job easier. Most of the time, an engineering team writes down a runbook/docs to solve a recurring problem that appears. This helps engineers avoid debugging the problem every time, thinking of a solution, designing the solution, and applying the solution.
Design patterns are handy to nail hard software engineering problems.
The Gang of Four book on design patterns in software engineering
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