Oh god I am just looking at a piece of software written by some really untalented folk (who are no longer with the client's company) and it's an unholy mess of

Oh god I am just looking at a piece of software written by some really untalented folk (who are no longer with the client's company) and it's an unholy mess of caches, Kafkas, Elastics.. because they prematurely decided that Postgres just won't cut it as they have almost a 100k items to keep track of! And since that mess of random arhitecture started generating millions of Kafka events their last act of engineering was to add kubernetes to the mix, because hey, more instances will solve the problem, right? I'm begging them to let me rewrite the whole thing just in Postgres, I think I'd rather quit than fix the original.