It sounds like your first company did one thing well, and the second one was trying to do a lot of different things. So while volume was lower, complexity was h

It sounds like your first company did one thing well, and the second one was trying to do a lot of different things. So while volume was lower, complexity was higher. Don't get me wrong. I'd still probably build that as a monolith in Java instead of a thousand NodeJS services, but I can see how you end up with Kubernetes.