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Not Invented Here (NIH)
Rejecting perfectly good external solutions in favor of building custom ones
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Golden Hammer
Using a familiar technology for every problem regardless of fit
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Cargo Cult Programming
Using patterns or practices without understanding why they work
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Lava Flow
Dead code that no one dares to remove because they don't understand it
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Shotgun Surgery
Making a single change requires modifications across many different classes or modules
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Shared Database Integration
Multiple services directly sharing the same database tables
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Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) Abuse
Storing arbitrary attributes as rows of name/value pairs to fake a schemaless model, sacrificing type safety, integrity, and query performance.
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One True Lookup Table (OTLT)
Cramming every reference list into one generic lookup table keyed by category, defeating foreign keys and mixing unrelated domains.