The last few months at work I’ve been deep in a refactoring project, cleaning up over twenty years of technical debt. It’s been a massive undertaking, but it’s rewarding work when I’m finally able to remove code that’s been hanging out well-past its expiration date.
One of the patterns that’s come in extremely handy is the Adapter Pattern, which lets me decouple application code from the underlying libraries that we use. This post will discuss how the Adapter Pattern works (with coffee-themed examples, as I tend to do), then demonstrate how it can help with refactoring.
