Anti-Simplification

A cautionary tale about over-engineering: a CTO replaced a simple SQL view with a Rube Goldberg machine involving two schedulers, two Azure Data Factory pipelines, multiple Azure Functions, C# DLLs with factory classes, reflection-based joins, and struct-copying functions — all to replicate what a few hundred lines of SQL could have done. The result was 50,000 lines of heavily duplicated C# code where adding a single table takes a month.