Code Island

Definitions

1. A part of the codebase or organization that is relatively isolated, with weak connections to the rest of the system. In engineering slang, code islands are hard to integrate, easy to forget, and often maintained by very few people.

   In plain English: An isolated part of the codebase that stands apart from the rest.

   Example: "The reporting plugin lived on a code island, with its own build rules, deploy path, and almost no shared abstractions with the main product."

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