[taeric]

There was an article recently (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30936189) that was basically about how far you can get with a simple architecture.

One thing I don't remember explicitly called out, is that most all architectures are grown. There are scarily few situations where starting with the complicated idea is a good idea.

[edelans]

Gall's Law :

> A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.

[sinuhe69]

So that instead of focusing on the architecture as it-is, we should pay more attention to the evolving stories of software architectures because we can learn more from them.