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All of this is so SERIOUS! Money getting lost! Customers having a terrible experience! However, in the midst of it all, I have found it to be critical to have a sense of humor. We shouldn’t forget that everyone is a human in this process and is going through varying degrees of stress. Injecting doses of humor at appropriate junctures helps relieve some of...

Discover the analogy between scientific knowledge evolution and IT engineering, emphasizing the challenge of distinguishing over-engineering from necessary extensibility. Uncover the crucial role of domain knowledge expansion for IT engineers, similar to scientists deriving universal laws. Explore how a profound understanding of the business domain leads to top-tier architectural solutions, scalability, and minimal overengineering.