It sure is trendy to think so though! I'm currently supporting ops of some "eventually consistent, globally distributed" (if you can fathom through the previou

It sure is trendy to think so though! I'm currently supporting ops of some "eventually consistent, globally distributed" (if you can fathom through the previous engineer's algorithms) built-from-scratch system designed to be resilient in the face of multi-megaX-transactions-per-second, that currently contains all of 8K records. Whereas stackoverflow.com runs on SQL. Their own hardware at that. I half wonder if a large chunk of AWS's revenue could be replaced by https://www.amazon.co.uk/electrical-sockets-adhesive-stickers-sticker/dp/B01N26IYQ5 https://www.amazon.co.uk/electrical-sockets-adhesive-sticker...