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What is a “big ball of mud” and how can you recognize it?

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#maintainability#coupling#code-smell

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Answer

It’s a codebase with weak boundaries and lots of ad-hoc coupling. Signs: unclear ownership, changes causing random breakages, lots of global/shared state, and “everything depends on everything”.

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