I'm watching a government customer take simple, cohesive systems developed by a small team (4-5 people) and split it up into tiny little pieces scattered across

I'm watching a government customer take simple, cohesive systems developed by a small team (4-5 people) and split it up into tiny little pieces scattered across different hosting platforms and even clouds. Governments are generally driven by a set of requirements that most of us have no inkling of. Distributed deployments are often not just for performance or resilience, but also politics and/or playing the vendors off against each other. It seems daft to us mere minions but there's often N-level chess shenanigans going on near the top.