An anti-pattern is a pattern that you use to fix a short-term problem at the expense of your long-term goals. The insidious thing about anti-patterns isn’t that they don’t work or fail outright, but that they work in the short term while causing long-term failure and pain. This week on the show Jillian, Will and I discuss the various anti-patterns and cargo culting in software engineering, including password management, team structures, mean time to recover, and docker files management.

In this episode…

• What is cargo cult software engineering?
• Favorite anti-patterns
• Password management
• Team structure and silos
• Mean time to recover
• Docker files management