# 20 - Always strive to build a smaller system, is probably the most important one. The new generation of engineers have yet to learn (again) that complexity ki

# 20 - Always strive to build a smaller system, is probably the most important one. The new generation of engineers have yet to learn (again) that complexity kills. The amount of resources spent maintaining unnecessary complexity is staggering. Your small thing does not have to be a distributed system.