Avoid Complex Infrastructure When Building Simple Things

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3 suggestions on how to stay simple and avoid complexity.

“You don’t understand — as soon as I install consul, set up service discovery for my microservices, build my own containerized continuous integration pipeline to build my code from source using my custom language-specific Dockerfile and set up my highly available production database my system for deploying code to production will be so simple.”

“How many people are in my team? Oh, it’s just me. But one day..”

Sigh ;-).

There’s a lot of complexity in things we use to reduce complexity. This is worth noticing. Three examples:

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