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Right, there's the concept of JBGE:

http://agilemodeling.com/essays/barelyGoodEnough.html

I think too many people want to apply a "silver bullet" to all projects: IoC, Docker containers, auto-scaling, etc. But sometimes I'm just tossing data from an API into a database somewhere. I don't need all that complexity.

Other times, I'm building an enterprise product with three fully-staffed agile teams, spending a million dollars annually for five years. Architecture that enables those teams to work in a cohesive way becomes very important, so an IoC pattern might save us a lot of time down the road.

Great architects know when to underengineer and when to overengineer.



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