I like the KISS principle applied here. I'm guilty of over-engineering. Once I worked on a project where we processed a lot of very large XML files ... and we s

I like the KISS principle applied here. I'm guilty of over-engineering. Once I worked on a project where we processed a lot of very large XML files ... and we set up a distributed application with Akka! We spent a couple of days to figure out the most clever way to listen for file system changes at the OS level. It was just crazy to read and process a bunch of XML files. A story like the one told here is a good reminder that in many cases a simple solution is enough (at least for a start).