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Last winter our team repaired an old payment system.去年冬天，我们的团队修好了一个旧的支付系统。 It had grown messy over many years, and small changes took weeks.它多年来已经变得很乱，小小的改动也要花上几周。 The company set up a committee of five engineers to study the trouble.公司成立了一个由五名工程师组成的「委员会」，来研究这个麻烦。 Otherwise the work would never move, because everyone had a different idea.「否则」这项工作永远不会推进，因为每个人想法不同。

One quiet architect drew a map of the whole design on a board.一位安静的「架构师」在一块板子上画出了整体「设计」的图。 She said the main process was simple in the beginning.她说主要的「流程」在起初很简单。 Every request had to pass through one central processor.每个请求都必须经过一个中央「处理器」。 That machine was obviously too slow for so many people on the same line.那台机器对于同一条线路上这么多人来说「显然」太慢了。

Instead of arbitrary fixes, we cut the core to the bone.我们没有做「任意」的修补，而是把核心精简到了「骨头」。 Thus requests now move in a shorter round, and the line moves faster.「因此」现在请求在更短的一圈里流转，这条线路也快了起来。 We tested it for two weeks and found no real problem.我们测了两周，没有发现真正的问题。 After that we let the report reach the other teams.之后我们让那份报告传到了别的团队。

That winter felt like losing a crop and planting again.那个冬天就像「作物」没了、要重新种一样。 Good design saves time, and a slow processor costs it.好的设计省时间，而慢的处理器费时间。 We still use that same board today.那块板子我们今天还在用。