Summary

Patterns are everywhere. There is a field called biomimicry that aims to study technology inspired by patterns in nature. It’s difficult to talk about software development anymore without bringing up artificial intelligence (AI), whose main job is to find patterns in massive amounts of data using techniques called machine learning (ML). The software industry has been humming along now since 1843 when Ada Lovelace wrote what most consider to be the first computer program. In that time, we have collectively run into the same challenges and frustrations over and over again. Eventually, we got smart enough to start writing things down and talking about them.

We’ve been learning patterns, which at their core are really just a way of communicating our best ideas as they relate to organizing and optimizing our code.

In this chapter, we briefly covered the patterns from the original GoF book that we didn’t cover in the earlier chapters as part of this book...