Summary
Well done, you made it! This was the last chapter of the book and you are now an official anti-pattern aficionado.
In this chapter, we have summarized the main points of the book. In particular, we looked at six underlying factors that are common to many anti-patterns and are part of their root causes.
These provide signposts that architects can use to create an awareness of what anti-patterns are likely to occur in a given architectural context and what measures may be taken to mitigate them.
In order to use this knowledge in practice, we outlined two different approaches to incorporating anti-patterns into your architecture process. First, we looked at how to use it constructively for your own architectures and then how to use it diagnostically for examining existing architectures.
Finally, we looked at where you might go from here in order to expand your knowledge further. We outlined three pathways you might take and gave some suggestions for books and other...
