Complexity budgets
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In this lesson
treat complexity as a cost that is spent deliberately.
Planned topics
- Complexity costs cognitive load, operational burden, onboarding time, and incident risk.
- Each new component adds failure modes and on-call work.
- Set a budget: how many moving parts can this team operate well?
- Spend complexity only on the top-priority attributes.
Draft outline details
Demonstration
a count of components, runbooks, and on-call pages added by each option, next to team size.
Check your understanding
Why count operational burden in a design comparison?
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Because the team must run it forever; it is part of the cost.
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