This often feels like a meme: "I had a scalability problem, so I made everything distributed and asynchronous. Now I have three problems!" It's not that the id

This often feels like a meme: "I had a scalability problem, so I made everything distributed and asynchronous. Now I have three problems!" It's not that the idea is fundamentally broken, but I suspect a lot of people dramatically misjudge the trade-offs. Never underestimate the power and efficiency of one big, fast server, nor the added complexity that is introduced by taking loose coupling to extreme levels.