Agree. I’m not gate-keeping what is and isn’t engineering. Where I live it’s a protected term anyway. People get sued for calling themselves software engineers

Agree. I’m not gate-keeping what is and isn’t engineering. Where I live it’s a protected term anyway. People get sued for calling themselves software engineers. I’m using the Wikipedia definition of, “over engineering.” Solving a problem in an elaborate way when a sufficient and simpler solution can be demonstrated to exist. In many cases you could rsync a binary to your servers and let the monitor process reload your web server. Or you can build out a build farm, dependency cache, and… spend $2, as you say, where someone who is practicing engineering could do well (or better) with $1.