The Singleton pattern, probably the most hated pattern on the internet. But for the sake of being complete I feel obligated in implementing it once. <sarcasm>And never use it again</sarcasm>. Although this pattern has its use cases in some scenario’s. Caching could be one of them. Mind the usage of ‘could’ in the previous sentence. It could be a use case but as always: it depends.

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Last week I started reading the Gang Of Four book for about the fifth time. Unfortunately I’m really bad at reading reference-like books. I always get bored after reading a few design patterns and put the book on my shelf to collect dust again. This time I’ve decided to do something different, because everybody knows:

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