The Programmer's Paradox: Fragmentation

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The Programmer's Paradox: Fragmentation Thursday, December 14, 2023 Fragmentation When you have never experienced large-scale software development, your preference is often to prefer fragmentation. You want lots of little parts. It’s understandable. Most people are taught to decompose large problems into smaller ones. Once they have completed that, they assume that all of those smaller sub-solutions are mostly independent from each other. They believe that dealing with each piece independently would be easier. That way you can just focus on one and ignore the rest. It’s just that w

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