A lot of times software developers get caught in the situation where they are reaching for the book of design patterns to see how they could solve a specific problem.
Programming languages are rich enough to help you solve different problems and a lot of programming languages and its frameworks can be used to easily implement different design patterns. However, when something like this is readily available to you, you need to have enough discipline NOT to reach for it right away.
What do I mean by this?
It is important to first truly understand what problem you are trying to solve. Work with your product owner and make sure that requirements are true business requirements without inclining any type of implementation. Once the requirements are in good shape, then you know what problem you are trying to solve.
Then you need to work out different solutions for that problem. This is where you would use your overall software engineering experience. You should NOT open a book of design patterns and look for what could solve your problem, but you would rather work out a solution and then if it happens to be one of the known patterns, the implementation of it would be that much easier.
Please think about this any time you are presented with a problem to solve.
Thank you for reading.
Almir Mustafic
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