erik.wiffin

What does it mean to be a professional software developer at an agency? If you’re familiar with some of the big names in books about software design - books like Design Patterns, Code Complete, Domain-Driven Design - you may have noticed that they all share a particular assumption: you are working at a product company, on a single codebase, and there is a good chance you will be working on that same codebase five years from now. As it happens, I work at a software agency, and have yet to spend more than six months on a single project. At work, we’ve been running a book club, and this discrepancy has made it hard to find books that feel relevant to our situation.