Simple Systems Have Less Downtime

Sometimes we tend to over-complicate things, especially when planning or designing software systems — there are lots of tools out there and the numbers are growing every day. Some engineers want to build complex systems just to satisfy themselves; it feels good knowing we know a lot of complex stuff. But is it a good decision to follow the complex route when we can keep it simple?

A very good read, where the author explains simply why we should avoid over-engineering and strive for simple systems as much as we can.