Ideas, Experiments, and Lessons Learned
The Early Days of Over-Engineering When I first started building backend systems, I fell in love with architecture diagrams. Hexagonal design, CQRS, event sourcing—you name it, I tried to fit it into every project I touched. It made me feel like I was building something truly scalable and elegant. But in reality, I was creating…
How It All Started For years, I fell into the classic trap of over-engineering my backend APIs. Every project began with ambition: perfect abstractions, layered architecture, and all the design patterns I had recently read about. It looked stunning in theory, but in practice — the complexity became a nightmare. It wasn’t that these patterns…
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