> I'm a broken record on how important I think this document is, and that it's hard to appreciate it until you've had extended experience with complex systems actually failing.

If you want a bit of cheese to go with that wine, this article pairs nicely with The Grug-Brained Developer: https://grugbrain.dev/

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tptacek 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I am also a broken record about Grug-brainedness, but I don't need to be so repetitive about it because so many other people are too.

	▲	ErroneousBosh an hour ago \| parent [-]
		My Grug-brained hill to die on is that there are many pieces of technology like the LM741 opamp, the Rover V8, Morris A-series and Peugeot XUD engines, and a big SQL database running on a thumping great Unix box, that have remained essentially unchanged for decades, worked well when they were new, and are still a perfectly good solution today for so much of what you want to do. You know what they have in common? A lack of complexity. Lovely simple technology, fix it with a hammer. Drive it to the moon and back. Drive it across the desert. Bring tools though!