Comment by d23

> Design flexible solution using common patterns.

Maybe this is part of the problem. I'm relatively young, so I've only seen a few design patterns, but it'd be interesting to have a high-level look at some of the most common patterns and what they're good at and what they aren't. For instance, I've never really used a messaging queue, but it seems like a genius design for a particular type of problem. I wonder how many other designs are out there that I'm not using, instead opting to shoe-horn in my existing ways of thinking.