Not much to add just wanted to say I share the sentiment and it matches my experience :-) . I'm not smart enough to NOT keep it simple; 90% of stuff I work on at $company is really a CRUDbox and I do NOT want to "astronaut-architect" the whole thing. Comprehensive test-suite, push to prod multiple times a day, feedback, dev.

That's it really.

Thanks!

> I'm not smart enough to NOT keep it simple

Yeah, sometimes I feel that most of my "amazing architecture skills" is not understanding what 90% of that stuff is supposed to do or why, and hey, maybe we can just do without it?

For reference: what we did was replace an existing system, which was running over a hundred processes on about a half dozen boxes. We replaced it with a jar.

The jar was around 1000x faster, 100x more reliable, 10x less code while handling around 10x more of the domain.