# Alex Kladov - Kafka Versus Nabokov (Highlights) ![rw-book-cover|256](https://matklad.github.io/favicon.png) ## 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