"In the past" ? My current employer, a high growth company uses HAProxy and Nginx in production with no plan to change anytime soon. Those are not tools from t

"In the past" ? My current employer, a high growth company uses HAProxy and Nginx in production with no plan to change anytime soon. Those are not tools from the past. They still work really well and there is no law requiring your brand new startup to be on AWS. Most companies (even more when they are B2B) have very predictable workloads.