Sums up the last two years of employment prior to my 'job elimination'. The company was acquired by a VC who brought in a new CIO. Everything was the cloud, w

Sums up the last two years of employment prior to my 'job elimination'. The company was acquired by a VC who brought in a new CIO. Everything was the cloud, webservices, etc. I contended that a stable application with 99%+ uptime, a team of six developers, and peak concurrent users of less than 10K was not an optimal candidate for webservices. We had had the application load tested by a very reputable firm and they asserted the platform could sustain nearly a million concurrent users. Given the nature of the business, even a 100 million customers would not lead to that level of concurrency. Typically, our concurrent users peaked at 0.3% of our customer base. So I have been comfortably retired for the last two years. And the company? Well, they 'deprecated' the application and leased a 3rd party solution that had all the right buzz words on their marketing material. So it goes.