# John Allspaw: “Getting the messy details is critical”

<https://medium.com/code-for-america/john-allspaw-getting-the-messy-details-is-critical-59e641aa0a77>

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## What Jamie wrote

Success results in more stuff.

> Another way of saying this is successful software never gets simpler. I think that’s something we can all agree on. That growing success and therefore that growing complexity makes it more and more difficult for people to understand how it all works right.

Doing this well is one of the hardest tasks in technology companies.

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