But that is because Stackoverflow is fine with their employees running a cheap, un-complex system that works (I can't remember the last SO outage!), and their e

But that is because Stackoverflow is fine with their employees running a cheap, un-complex system that works (I can't remember the last SO outage!), and their employees are also happy with this. Great example! Far too often we introduce complexity to manage complexity. Then we fail to manage the complexity that we created, and conclude that we need even more complexity! Taking the simple approach seems impossible and utterly scary. But it works more often than most would believe.