Over-engineering is rarely caused by bad engineers. It happens when fear, incentives, and the pressure to future-proof push teams toward unnecessary abstractions, premature scalability, and architecture that looks impressive but becomes painful to change. In this session, you will learn why smart teams repeatedly build more complexity than they need, how best practices turn into cargo-cult decisions, and how over-engineering quietly erodes delivery speed, reliability, and morale long after the original choices are forgotten. You will leave with practical ways to spot complexity early, choose the right level of abstraction for the problem at hand, and advocate for simpler designs without sounding reckless. If you have ever felt a system was overbuilt but struggled to explain why, this talk will give you the language, patterns, and tactics to build software that stays clear, scalable when necessary, and maintainable years later.

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