Do the simplest thing that could possibly work

https://www.seangoedecke.com/the-simplest-thing-that-could-possibly-work/

• When designing software systems, do the simplest thing that could possibly work.

• real mastery often involves learning when to do less, not more.

• In software, this means that great software design looks underwhelming.

• the cardinal sin of big tech SaaS engineering is an obsession with scale.

• The longer I spend working in tech, the less optimistic I become about our collective ability to predict where a system is going.