Architecture Antipatterns Website

Find out more about Architecture Antipatterns (generated via Github Pages from this repository).

How to contribute?

1. Fork this repository

2. Make a feature branch on your fork

3a. Develop locally

You can setup a local development environment by running the following commands in your locally cloned repository:

bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve

You will need a local Ruby installation for that. After that you can look at your changes at: http://localhost:4000

3b. Develop locally with docker

Alternativly you can use docker to develop locally.

docker compose up

The local directory is mounted in the docker-container, so that jekyll will "hot-reload" any changes on the site. The site should also be available on http://localhost:4000

4. Make your changes

New antipatterns can be saved in _patterns and new case studies in _case_studies as markdown files.

New antipatterns are only published with a related case study.

For comments and other contributions please use the issue tracker on github.

5. Commit your changes

Bonus: Choose a good commit message 🏆

6. Open a pull-request

Provide a good title and describe what you want to change and why.

7. Review

The current authors of the website meet every two weeks and will review your PR.

8. You get mentioned

When your PR is accepted, you will get mentioned as author/contributor. Contributors will get mentioned in this README. Authors will have a picture on the site.

9. Become a member 🏆🏆

Bonus: When you are a regular author, you can join our review meetings.

Structure of a pattern

• Name of the pattern
• Description: What is it, and what are the bad consequences?
• What are some examples?
• Why does this happen?
• How can we avoid getting into the situation in the first place?
• What are suggestions to get out of the situation if we ended up in it?

Structure of a case study

• Name of the case study
• Description
• What is the system’s background (possibly shared by more than one example)?
• What was the good idea?
• (optional: What happened, was there a turning or tipping point?)
• What were the bad consequences, why was everything bad?
• Which patterns were encountered? (optional: How was the situation resolved or if we had a suggestion for a solution, which was not implemented, what was it?)
• What happened, was there a turning or tipping point?
• How was the situation resolved

Contributors

Thank you for your contribution: Maik Toepfer Patrick Gebert Till Lorentzen