# Alex Kladov - Kafka Versus Nabokov (Highlights) ![rw-book-cover|256](https://matklad.github.io/favicon.png) ## Metadata **Review**:: [readwise.io](https://readwise.io/bookreview/38346581) **Source**:: #from/readwise #from/reader **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Alex Kladov]] **Full Title**:: Kafka Versus Nabokov **Category**:: #articles #readwise/articles **Category Icon**:: 📰 **URL**:: [matklad.github.io](https://matklad.github.io/2024/03/02/Kafka-vs-Nabokov.html) **Host**:: [[matklad.github.io]] **Highlighted**:: [[2024-03-04]] **Created**:: [[2024-03-06]] ## Highlights - Even if it is a gigantic complex system with many moving parts, start with spiking and end-to-end solution which can handle one particular variation of a happy path. Build skeleton first, flesh can be added incrementally. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hr3e584w101h4b3sr1gewmyv)) ^687761881 - Figure out hard system boundaries between “your system” and “not your system”, and do design those carefully. Anything else that looks like a boundary isn’t. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hr3e8q8f0gvwzya3t9x42w92)) ^687763085