A complete guide to the first 12 structural and creational design patterns from the famous book by the Gang Of Four.

So how’s your IT career going? Are you a software developer? Or maybe the team lead?

Well, how does Senior Application Architect sound? This job means you get to design the application architectures, and the dev team gets to implement all of your designs. A pretty sweet deal (plus there’s usually a nice paycheque).

But if you want to become a software architect you simply have to know all fundamental design patterns by heart, there's no excuse. Detailed knowledge of all of these fundamental patterns will greatly benefit your career.