Simplicity is a Skill: Stop Over-Engineering Your Projects

Young developers often adopt complex architectures—microservices, Kubernetes, multiple databases—designed for large-scale systems, even when building projects under 1,000 users. This over-engineering leads to maintenance nightmares and production failures, with the painful realization that a simple monolith with Docker and GitHub Actions would have sufficed. Knowing when NOT to use advanced tools is a more valuable skill than implementing them.