Why Over-Engineering Happens
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Over-engineering plagues software development when teams build unnecessarily complex systems for simple problems. Using examples like Levels.fyi's initial Google Forms backend, the author explores why engineers choose microservices and Kubernetes for applications that could run on single servers, examining cultural incentives that reward complexity over delivery and practical principles for maintaining architectural simplicity.
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