{"id":10957,"date":"2010-10-27T17:07:23","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T21:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=10957"},"modified":"2010-10-27T17:07:23","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T21:07:23","slug":"the-kiss-principle-its-value-confirmed-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/10\/27\/the-kiss-principle-its-value-confirmed-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The KISS principle: Its value confirmed again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>From DSC:<\/strong><br \/>\nIn reading Ray Ozzie&#8217;s views of the  future (Ray is the departing high-level visionary at Microsoft), it was interesting to note that Ray points out <strong>the dangers of<\/strong> <em><strong>complexity<\/strong><\/em> &#8212; at least in the world of computing\/software development. Quotes from both 2005 and 2010 are below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\/disruption\/ozzie\/theinternetservicesdisruptio.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>From 2005:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Complexity  kills. <\/strong>It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products  difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges,  and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.\u00a0 Moving forward,  within all parts of the organization, each of us should ask \u201cWhat\u2019s  different?\u201d, and explore and embrace techniques to reduce complexity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/ozzie.net\/docs\/dawn-of-a-new-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">And then again from 2010:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Complexity kills.<\/strong> Complexity  sucks the life out of users, developers and IT.\u00a0 Complexity makes  products difficult to plan, build, test and use. \u00a0Complexity introduces  security challenges.\u00a0 Complexity causes administrator frustration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: In reading Ray Ozzie&#8217;s views of the future (Ray is the departing high-level visionary at Microsoft), it was interesting to note that Ray points out the dangers of complexity &#8212; at least in the world of computing\/software development. Quotes from both 2005 and 2010 are below: From 2005: Complexity kills. It sucks the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,45,204,20],"tags":[19,591,674,579],"class_list":["post-10957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-based-computing-apps","category-computer-science","category-programming","category-strategy","tag-cloud-computing","tag-computer-science","tag-programming","tag-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10959,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957\/revisions\/10959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}