Yes, simplicity is vastly underrated. Our machines are amazingly capable and can take amazing loads if we let them. Yeah, back in the early 2000s I was asked

Yes, simplicity is vastly underrated. Our machines are amazingly capable and can take amazing loads if we let them. Yeah, back in the early 2000s I was asked by the BBC to help with one of their backend systems that was spread over a dozen machines running a hundred processes and connected to their enterprise Oracle. It was incredibly slow and fell over daily. Also pretty much unmaintainable. Replaced it with a single jar. Deployment process: copy jar to production machine, start it. Was 100-1000 times faster and also 100-1000 times more reliable. We initially did have a failure because we were all Java noobs and didn't know we had to set a JVM parameter to get it to use all the gigabyte of RAM on its dedicated machine. After that: rock solid. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯