id: 1150,1
title: Inner-platform effect.
date: 2024-03-24

Inner-platform effect.

This is an anti-pattern where a system designer overly favors flexibility to the degree that their system starts cloning features of the platform they are building atop. This duplication is done poorly and inefficiently, not to mention the expense of it.

The Unix philosophy helps mitigate this through its focus on composability and simplicity.