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I think it's helpful to divide complexity into complexity in the business logic / problem you're trying to solve, which cannot be eliminated from a pure technic
by ryanbrunner 4y ago
I think it's helpful to divide complexity into complexity in the business logic / problem you're trying to solve, which cannot be eliminated from a pure technical perspective (you should still try to simplify it through discussions with stakeholders though!), and complexity that isn't necessary to solve the problem.
Oftentimes the latter category could be necessary if you were at much higher scale, or if the business evolved in some way, etc., which is where this sort of stuff tends to originate. Just yesterday we were talking at my company about extracting a service in Go, since it's very high scale, very simple, and doesn't change much. On one hand, it's pretty likely we'll need to do that at some point, but on the other, it's not causing any issues right now, so there's not much point in doing it at the moment. Had we gone forward, that would have added complexity for a theoretical concern that may or may not happen in the future.