There's this great quote at the beginning of the chapter I'm currently reading in the book _Designing Data-Intensive Applications_: > "A complex system that wo

There's this great quote at the beginning of the chapter I'm currently reading in the book _Designing Data-Intensive Applications_: > "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work." --John Gall, Systemantics (1975)