The Overengineering Epidemic: When Simple Solutions are Better
The Bridge We Don’t Need Picture this: You’re sitting in a startup meeting. Three engineers. Two weeks of runway left. The product isn’t validated yet. And someone—there’s always someone—says: “We should probably set up a microservices architecture with Kubernetes orchestration, implement a message queue, add a service mesh, and design it for 100 million concurrent users.” Your gut tells you something is wrong. You’re right. This is the overengineering epidemic, and it’s killing more products than it’s saving....
