Code Taxi

Noun · Slang & Abbreviations

Definitions

  1. Code whose main job is moving data, requests, or control from one place to another rather than adding much logic of its own. In engineering slang, code taxis are necessary, but too many of them make architecture feel like endless transit.

    In plain English: Code that mainly transports data or requests from one place to another.

    Example: "The API gateway had become a code taxi, ferrying fields between services while slowly accumulating tiny transformation rules nobody documented well."

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