In the previous post, I discussed the rise of OSS, the positive effects it had and how it changed software development. At the end of the post I mentioned that also some misconceptions sneaked in. These I will discuss in this post.
When I started to discuss accidental complexity on the architectural level in my “Simplify!” blog series, I quickly realized that I needed to discuss Open Source Software (OSS) first as it often acts as a driver of accidental complexity on the architectural level today.
With the previous post, we finished discussing the complexity drivers and mitigation options “above” the technology level. Starting with this post, we will discuss the technology level and “below”.
In the previous post of this series I started to discuss drivers on the project level that lead to accidental complexity regarding unnecessary requirements that do not add any value to the solution.
A few days ago, I saw the following job advertisement creating a lot of mockery in the Internet: