> When I finally got our engineering team to spend some time on making the data pipelines less fragile, instead of using one of these open source solutions they

> When I finally got our engineering team to spend some time on making the data pipelines less fragile, instead of using one of these open source solutions they took it as an opportunity to create a fancy scalable, distributed, asynchronous data pipeline system built on ECS, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and NodeJS. That system was never able to be used in production, as my fragile duct-taped solution turned out to be more robust. "An engineer is one who, when asked to make a cup of tea, come up with a device to boil the ocean". Source: unknown. I think it was in Grady Booch's OO book, or some such book. Also: "architect astronaut" and "Better is the enemy of good" come to mind...