I think that kub and, generally, cloud providers have allowed for more ambitious projects to be generally accessible. My side project is intended to handle > 1

I think that kub and, generally, cloud providers have allowed for more ambitious projects to be generally accessible. My side project is intended to handle > 1 billion events per day, with fairly low latency. That's well over 10k events per second. I doubt I could do this easily on a single box, and I wouldn't really want to try. Why constrain myself that way? Is it worth just doing this the standard LAMP way? More and more problems are available to be solved using commodity systems, so we have more and more people solving those problems with these new systems.