What Is the Total Cost of Complexity (TCC)
What is the Total Cost of Complexity?
The all-in dollar cost of running a tangled system: unrecognized dependency cost, coordination cost, and excess maintenance and infrastructure cost, adjusted for the risk that changes break unrelated parts. A high TCC means the system is more expensive to operate than a clean one, and the gap widens with every change.
What is Vacuum Effort?
The baseline cost of a change in a perfectly modular system with no unrecognized dependencies and no coordination overhead. TCC measures how far reality has drifted from that baseline.
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