I think over engineering can often be synonymous with over abstracting. As developers, we often build abstractions to future proof our software. Unfortunately, we can often plan for a future that doesn't exist. Since we get more information about the future as time goes on, it can be a better practice to defer building abstractions until we have more information. This helps us avoid unnecessary complexity, and make decisions based on data, rather than guessing :D
Sandi Metz has an awesome article about this topic. sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-w... This article has some great words of wisdom in it "duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction" and many others.
I think Jeffrey Way would agree about over abstraction. When I was learning Laravel, a lot of times he would say to not worry about abstraction until it became clear that a part of the code was going to start getting messy. He'd also show a good number of ways to accomplish the same thing, depending on what's needed.
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I think over engineering can often be synonymous with over abstracting. As developers, we often build abstractions to future proof our software. Unfortunately, we can often plan for a future that doesn't exist. Since we get more information about the future as time goes on, it can be a better practice to defer building abstractions until we have more information. This helps us avoid unnecessary complexity, and make decisions based on data, rather than guessing :D
Sandi Metz has an awesome article about this topic. sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-w... This article has some great words of wisdom in it "duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction" and many others.
I think Jeffrey Way would agree about over abstraction. When I was learning Laravel, a lot of times he would say to not worry about abstraction until it became clear that a part of the code was going to start getting messy. He'd also show a good number of ways to accomplish the same thing, depending on what's needed.