Who Is This Book For?
To get the most out of this book you should be an experienced programmer, technical lead, or software architect. The most important thing is that you have worked on fairly large software projects and experienced the various pains and problems we try to solve in the book.
You don’t have to be a programming expert, but you should be comfortable looking at small code samples. Most of our discussions are on a conceptual level and since the analyses are technology-neutral, the book will apply no matter what programming language you work with. This is an important aspect of the techniques you’re about to learn, as most of today’s systems are polyglot codebases.
You should also have experience with a version-control system. The ...
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