In 2025, a question haunts architecture meetings:
“What if one script solves it?”
🧾 rsync → cron → python
No brokers. No Kafka. No dashboards.
Numbers land. Dashboard updates. Done.
✅ Faster than most “real-time” stacks
✅ Readable in one screen
✅ No 3 a.m. alerts
✅ Budget stays on features
Sometimes, complexity is just theater.
📎 Full post → https://levelup.gitconnected.com/the-cult-of-complexity-in-2025-why-one-script-replaces-your-entire-hype-stack-8d7d809a3622