When learning about new ways of doing things, you should avoid doing them without understanding the reasons. You should know the benefits and downsides, and then measure the changes to prove that they are what you expect. Don't just blindly implement something and assume it improves the situation. Try to avoid cargo cult programming and always objectively evaluate a new approach.
Cargo cult programming is the practice of emulating something successful but failing to understand the reasons of why it works. Its name comes from the cargo cults of the Pacific, who built dummy airstrips after World War II to encourage cargo delivery. We use it to describe many things where correlation has been confused with causation. ...
