Our first Itenium Book Club pick: design patterns, misconceptions, and real-world trade-offs.
About the book club
We kicked off the Itenium Book Club with our very first book: Pattern Hatching by John Vlissides (one of the GoF authors). The concept is simple: we read the same chapters, then get together to compare notes, challenge assumptions, and link the ideas back to real project work.
This wasn’t a passive “book summary” session. It was a practical discussion where we tested the ideas on actual code, questioned when patterns help (and when they don’t), and shared how these concepts show up in day-to-day engineering decisions.
Our key takeaway: patterns aren’t theory for interviews — they’re tools that help solve messy design problems more cleanly, when used with good judgment. Big thanks to everyone who joined: the questions and perspectives made the sessions much richer.
