[Verse 1] Started with a simple app, three users max But Jimmy coded like he's serving Netflix stacks Kubernetes clusters for his weekend hack Microservices talking, but nobody's back Database sharding for a contact form Load balancers spinning in a perfect storm "But what if we scale?" he whispers in the night While customers wait for features done right [Chorus] Gold-plating, anticipating problems that ain't there Over-engineer the atmosphere while users pull their hair Keep it lean, keep it mean, solve the pain that's real today Don't architect tomorrow when you haven't shipped today YAGNI's calling, KISS is key, premature optimization's curse Simple first, then iterate, or you'll end up driving hearse [Verse 2] Sarah built abstractions seven layers deep For two dozen users who just want to tweet "Future-proofing" turned into a six-month sleep While competitors launched what customers need Caching redis clusters for a blog post view Message queues processing one or maybe two Perfect scalability, zero revenue Technical debt disguised as something new [Chorus] Gold-plating, anticipating problems that ain't there Over-engineer the atmosphere while users pull their hair Keep it lean, keep it mean, solve the pain that's real today Don't architect tomorrow when you haven't shipped today YAGNI's calling, KISS is key, premature optimization's curse Simple first, then iterate, or you'll end up driving hearse [Bridge] Scale the team before you scale the tech Monolith can handle more than you suspect Complexity compounds, debugging gets harder Start lean, grow smart, be your own guarder [Verse 3] When your servers crash from actual demand That's the sweetest problem in this startup land Refactor under pressure with real data's hand Not phantom requirements drawn in shifting sand [Final Chorus] Gold-plating, anticipating problems that ain't there Over-engineer the atmosphere while users pull their hair Keep it lean, keep it mean, solve the pain that's real today Don't architect tomorrow when you haven't shipped today YAGNI's wisdom, KISS will guide, build for users not for pride Ship it fast, measure twice, let the market be your guide [Outro] Simple code that solves real needs Beats complex architecture that just bleeds
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