Signs What You’re Building is Over-Engineered

This article outlines common signs of over-engineering in software projects—including premature scaling, excessive abstraction, unused code, disproportionate time investment, too many service boundaries, high cloud costs, building commodity functionality in-house, and choosing overly performant languages or heavy frameworks for simple tasks—and offers pragmatic advice to simplify designs, set priorities, and favor maintainability and appropriate trade-offs.