untangling

Thinking in micro services from the start is not that hard, but untangling a monolith can be very hard.

This book does a great job of untangling what it means to know, the limitations of knowing, and doesn't duck the difficult questions.

Unfortunately untangling a hairball is a bit harder than constructing one.

Then they discover how much support effort goes into stopping, or untangling frauds, scams, and robberies.

Guess who got saddled with untangling the salad when he left the company.

Sensational headline aside, I've seen a lot less untangling when feature-branching off of master and a judicious use of tags.

Nothing will create a great programmer faster than untangling those darn tangles.

They met before marriage or civil partnership were a thing and the process of untangling shared assets, property, mortgages and so on is really complicated.

I would not want to be on the team responsible for untangling those cables!

Murry doesn't do a great job of untangling these effects.

Hey, I found these when I was untangling WebGL, and found them pretty useful.

RecyclerView & Toolbar are examples of Google untangling the foundation from the look & feel, and letting the community come up with the final implementation of things.

When untangling dependencies, adding that bit in there makes it very clear what the seams are -- where you can say "I depend on something that does Foo -- Feel free to replace it", rather than "I depend on this thing that comes entangled in its own network of dependencies".

Untangling those false connections just adds overhead to the learning process and (IMO) are best avoided until you have a clearer mental distinction between programming _per se_ and programming in a specific language.