Golden Hammer

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Enforcement Core

Aliases: Law of the Instrument

Record: architecture:golden-hammer

Severity: discouraged

Scope: architecture_evolution

Formed by: Apply a familiar pattern, framework, architecture style, or technology to problems regardless of fit.

Canonical: Ontology

A defect in which one familiar solution is applied to problems regardless of fit.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Over-Abstraction and before Pattern Cargo Cult.

Refactored by

• Force Analysis
• Trade-Off Matrix
• Decision Record with Alternatives
• Contextual Pattern Selection

Severity

• discouraged

Category

• Anti-patterns

Force

• Architecture evolution

Negated by

• First-Principles Design

Violates

• First-Principles Design

Linked from

• Proxies give way
• Seven controls, seven classes
• Anti-patterns
• Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts
• Architecture Review Evolution Governance
• Severity levels
• The forces