The developer journey

As I began my journey in software delivery, I had to learn to keep things simple, and this went against all my principles as an engineer. We engineers like to take complicated things and further complicate them. I believed the more complicated the solution, the more intelligent one looks. I came to find the error in my thought process and learned that the simplicity of things was far more important. There is an elegance to keeping development simple in software so you can provide a solution while keeping the development of that solution small in nature.  This is a hard principle to convey to folks that haven’t experienced the long nights and hours of pulling your hair out with complex solutions.  So I now look for things with synergies to keep things simple, for instance using ASP.NET MVC and Angular; with both being MVC (Model-View-Controller) based, they play nicely together.  Learning the direct connection to resources instead of keeping them decoupled gave me the...