> Poor and smart can be extremely toxic - unnecessary complexity that's hard for everyone else to understand OMG yes, had one of these once. A simple applicati

> Poor and smart can be extremely toxic - unnecessary complexity that's hard for everyone else to understand OMG yes, had one of these once. A simple application because a dog-slow matryoshka of virtualisation and containers stitched together with queues and microservices, distributed over a cluster. One good server, a database and a bit of plain coding could have done the job, and been vastly faster as well. But his version was going to be so scalable! (haha, not even slightly. Edit: and he couldn't understand why)