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by edelans 1527 days ago
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.

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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.