<Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems> If a thing be ordained to another as to its end, its last end cannot consist in the preservation of its being. Hence a captain does not intend as a last end, the preservation of the ship entrusted to him, since a ship…

<Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems> A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. —John Gall, Systemantics (1975)…