The Death Star Design Pattern

Experienced people in our industry will be familiar with the following popular anti-pattern:

The system is built in secret, from unbelievable money .

. Only few are allowed to use it; others can only watch , if at all.

, if at all. Its power might be demonstrated once on a low-value target ; but right after, a few punx0rs arrive in crappy crafts and frack it up .

; but right after, a few punx0rs arrive in crappy crafts and . A less dramatic outcome is that the money runs out and the project is simply abandoned.

and the project is simply abandoned. After the tragic failure of the original version, "2.0" gets executed basically the same way , with basically the same result .

of the original version, "2.0" gets executed basically the , with basically the . The whole thing costs much more than any profit it could ever have achieved.

than any profit it could ever have achieved. It's also hellishly slow – the Millenium Falcon beat it with a day, over just one lightyear distance :)

Now it has a name.

(NOTE: english translation of @kozka's "A Halálcsillag Design Pattern".)

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