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A drive to simplicity and elegance can be a distinctive style. I wouldn't get caught up in the word "distinctive" to the detriment of losing the larger point a

• CharlieDigital 1y ago
  Simplicity is the most underrated attribute of a well-designed system. There is a tendency for smart people to want to build complex solutions when often, the best solution is one that simple. We had a dev recently write a whole source generation library to verify configuration at application startup. I pointed out that it would only save -- at most -- 14ms over a reflection based approach and that our application at startup is rolling over nodes in K8s and not a serverless function where cold starts matter. It went from a 1600 line PR to a 60 line PR.