Skip to content
José da Cruz

Enterprise Architect, and Life Thinker

José da Cruz

Enterprise Architect, and Life Thinker

Tag: software design heuristics

architecture

The Rule of Three: A Practical Heuristic for When to Actually Build That Abstraction

josedacruz, August 3, 2026August 3, 2026

Every developer has felt this itch: you copy a chunk of code for the second time, and something in your brain screams “this is wrong, I should make this reusable.” So you stop, build a shared function or class, and wire everything to use it. Sometimes that’s a great move….

Continue Reading
  • architecture (154)
  • artificial-intelligence (6)
  • books (2)
  • courses (4)
  • decision-frameworks (4)
  • finances (1)
  • java (8)
  • life-improvement (20)
  • metrics (3)
  • observability (2)
  • puzzles and challenges (3)
  • reviews (1)
  • security (8)
  • spring-boot (36)
  • Systems Thinking (3)
  • GitHub Weekly: MCP Tools Trending Right Now (September 28 – October 4, 2026)
  • The Bulkhead Pattern: Why One Slow Dependency Shouldn’t Sink the Whole Ship
  • Essential Reading: A Philosophy of Software Design — Fighting Complexity One Module at a Time
  • GitHub Weekly: Top 10 Trending Repos (September 21 – September 27, 2026)
  • The Volunteer Tax: Why Raising Your Hand in a Meeting Makes You the Permanent Owner
©2026 José da Cruz | WordPress Theme by SuperbThemes