When your architect rocks oversized slacks, brace for legendary UML diagram sessions

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The meme has a black tweet-style frame with white text at the top that reads: "if your architect looks like this you are about to see some banger UML diagrams". Below the caption is a photo showing only the lower legs and feet of a person wearing very wide, baggy brown dress slacks whose cuffs are folded up into large loops that nearly cover a pair of square-toe brown leather shoes. The exaggeratedly old-school office attire humorously implies a senior, battle-hardened software architect. The joke plays on the stereotype that veterans who still dress like this will unleash detailed, perfectly-formatted UML class and sequence diagrams - signalling deep knowledge of system architecture and design methodology

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick If the cuffs are wide enough to feed an A0 plotter, clear your calendar - he’s about to unroll the full 4+1 view, justify why CORBA “still scales,” and make you label every arrow in the sequence diagram with stereotypes you retired in 2003

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

If the cuffs are wide enough to feed an A0 plotter, clear your calendar - he’s about to unroll the full 4+1 view, justify why CORBA “still scales,” and make you label every arrow in the sequence diagram with stereotypes you retired in 2003
Anonymous

The correlation between an architect's boot-tuck coefficient and their UML diagram complexity is directly proportional to the number of abstract factory patterns they'll insist on implementing for a simple CRUD app
Anonymous

This architect's shoes have more inheritance hierarchies than your entire codebase - and just like their UML diagrams, they're meticulously structured, slightly over-engineered, and make you wonder if all those relationships were really necessary. The real question is whether they use aggregation or composition for the sole-to-upper binding, and if they've documented the cardinality of the lace-to-eyelet associations
Anonymous

Those cuffs say RUP; expect 4+1 views, Sparx EA files, and an ADR for every arrow on the sequence diagram
Anonymous

Baggy khakis for loose coupling, but those UMLs? Tightly cohesive masterpieces
Anonymous

If the pants have stirrups, the deck has stereotypes - brace for Rational Rose UML where the coffee machine is a bounded context and the sequence arrows only execute in PowerPoint
@dontmindmehere 2y

god bless such architects
@azizhakberdiev 2y

I can't imagine his face without mustache, idk why
1. @callofvoid0 2y
  
  and round glasses
dev_meme 2y

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