I try to make this point to people a lot and can never seen to quite get it across. I really like your running water analogy. Newer technology is usually easi

I try to make this point to people a lot and can never seen to quite get it across. I really like your running water analogy. Newer technology is usually easier. Especially if you pick the easy stuff. I used to do all these tricks to work infra jobs but not be on call. Now - is it in AWS? Is the app in a container? Is it deployed with Kubernetes? Then I don't even care if there is on call! I've woken up to fix Linux servers in the middle of the night dozens of times. And don't get me wrong - I love Linux. I have yet to have my first "kubernetes broke during the middle of the night" call. Not to say that new tech doesn't have tradeoffs too. But good lord! It's so much harder with old tech. It's like you're purposely doing it harder to prove a point.