Category: optimization

Premature optimization is the root of all evil - not only in the Agile world

October 9, 2008 by pbielicki

Picture courtesy of gutter@flickr

I was just reading an excellent book by Josh Bloch, namely "Effective Java, Second Edition" and I was on the optimization subject when it happened. It was funny coincidence but I think it was just a sign for me to write this post.

It doesn't relate to the Agility in any way but it relates to the quality of software so it should be definitely published here. And it all started very innocently - from publishing blog post with the solution to some annoying problem.

In this post I will tell you how easily you can fall into really dangerous and ugly development problems starting optimizing your software too early. I hope you will like the story.