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SimplicityVsComplexity

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Simple Change Meets Tech Debt
TechDebt Refactoring CodeQuality

Simple Change Meets Tech Debt

TechnicalDebt RefactoringNeeded
The Tiny Fix Trap
Senior Devs Celebrate Four Layers of Abstraction Over Simplicity
DesignPatterns Architecture CodeQuality TechDebt

Senior Devs Celebrate Four Layers of Abstraction Over Simplicity

OverEngineering CodeAbstractionPrinciples
The Five-Box Birthday Present
Bell-curve meme on over-complicating tech stack decisions
DesignPatterns Architecture IndustryTrends Hype

Bell-curve meme on over-complicating tech stack decisions

EngineeringTradeoffs IndustryTrends
One Tool for Everything
Just One More Platform Tool
Tooling DevOps SRE Cloud

Just One More Platform Tool

ToolingOverload DeveloperTooling
The Toy Box Problem
Senior Dev Wisdom: Avoiding Needless Complexity
CodeQuality DesignPatterns Architecture Juniors

Senior Dev Wisdom: Avoiding Needless Complexity

OverEngineering SimplicityVsComplexity
Broom vs. Lightsaber
Elegant theory, pure code, atrocious runtime: when Big-O meets prod reality
Performance CS Fundamentals

Elegant theory, pure code, atrocious runtime: when Big-O meets prod reality

PerformanceIssues PerformanceTradeoffs
Fast Car, Slow Ride
XKCD's Road Space Comparison and Logic Puzzle Escalation
DataVisualization CS Fundamentals DevCommunities

XKCD's Road Space Comparison and Logic Puzzle Escalation

EngineeringAbsurdity DesignTradeoffs
Don’t Overthink It
Microservices Meet the Monolith Counterargument
DesignPatterns Architecture DistributedSystems Backend

Microservices Meet the Monolith Counterargument

Microservices MonolithArchitecture
One Big Box
When complexity turns magic into maintenance nightmare: Clarke's law rewritten for engineers
TechDebt CodeQuality DesignPatterns Architecture

When complexity turns magic into maintenance nightmare: Clarke's law rewritten for engineers

TechnicalDebt SystemComplexity
Magic Trick Gone Wrong
The Labyrinth Architect Solves Everything
DesignPatterns Architecture CodeQuality TechDebt

The Labyrinth Architect Solves Everything

OverEngineering SoftwareArchitecturePatterns
Maze for Everything
Kubernetes Networking: A Visual Representation
Containerization Networking DevOps SRE

Kubernetes Networking: A Visual Representation

Kubernetes Containerization
Ball of Wires
The Pretty Interface, The Tangled Back
CodeQuality UX UI DesignPatterns Architecture

The Pretty Interface, The Tangled Back

HiddenComplexity VisualMetaphors
Pretty Front, Messy Back
Home Network Expectations vs. Reality
Networking Infrastructure DevCommunities

Home Network Expectations vs. Reality

Networking SimplicityVsComplexity
One Wire to the World