This is a painful lesson you learn with time: "It's easy to oversimplify problems and try new, leaner technologies that optimize for our use cases. However, whe

This is a painful lesson you learn with time: "It's easy to oversimplify problems and try new, leaner technologies that optimize for our use cases. However, when scaling it to the rest of the organization, we start to see the dragons. People that didn't build their software the right way. Entire tech stacks depending on libraries that teams can't update due to reasons™. Quickly, we start realizing that our lean way of doing things may not serve most situations." -- It's a costly one, as it affects people (how we make decisions) and code (what needs to be refactored now). Excellent writing by João Alves.