Do We Worship Complexity?

Software development is argued to be less about programming than about handling complex systems, and the article contends that people unconsciously worship complexity, producing unnecessarily complicated systems. It draws on Conway's 1968 paper, which it says holds that managers, whose prestige depends on team size and budget, push for large teams, and that Parkinson's Law then causes communication to collapse and architecture to become chaotic. The article also names software architects who adopt patterns such as event sourcing, layered architectures and microservices without weighing their benefits against their complexity, and it cites employees who claim their challenges exceed those of Amazon or Google.