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Entropy is the tendency of a system to progress away from order towards randomness.
The simplicity of an architecture is defined by the number of steps that are required to produce an output given an input.
The simpler a system architecture is the more entropy resilient that architecture is. This is because there are fewer parts that can break.
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entropy is the tendency of a system to progress towards technical simplicity
occam’s razor helps protect against entropy
reduce the burden of maintenance
simple and easy are correlated but not the same