Essence of System Design: Leverage Proven Parts Over Reinventing
round · x · 2026-08-03
The author quoted a profound insight on system architecture: good system design is largely about leveraging parts that already work and deciding what to continue to lean on. It's an organic process where tissue eventually turns into bone.
Bad architecture does the exact opposite—like deleting a hill just to build a big box, or adding 10 brand new UI primitives instead of intelligently reusing just 3 existing ones.
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