Design Patterns

Configuration is a powerful tool and a dangerous temptation. My goal in this post is to walk through the ways I mishandled configuration, ended up rediscovering the Options configuration pattern, and finally dive into specific design scenarios to show why Options is the most stable solution.

“.. the high-level language embodies the constructs wanted in the abstract program and avoids all the lower ones, it eliminates a whole level of complexity that was never inherent in the program at all” – Fred Brooks, No Silver Bullet