Thanks!
> I'm not smart enough to NOT keep it simple
Yeah, sometimes I feel that most of my "amazing architecture skills" is not understanding what 90% of that stuff is supposed to do or why, and hey, maybe we can just do without it?
For reference: what we did was replace an existing system, which was running over a hundred processes on about a half dozen boxes. We replaced it with a jar.
The jar was around 1000x faster, 100x more reliable, 10x less code while handling around 10x more of the domain.