Because everyone is prentending that they need to be infinetly scalable like the FAANGs, exacerbated by Cloud providers marketing spiel. In reality nobody knows

Because everyone is prentending that they need to be infinetly scalable like the FAANGs, exacerbated by Cloud providers marketing spiel. In reality nobody knows how to build distributed systems but everybody needs to build them as resume fodder, because they might one day apply for a job at a FAANG... sigh...I sometimes pine back to the days where I saturated the NICs of two quadcore servers with C++ std::unordered_map and FastCGI. Especially the days when I ask what problems the service mesh solves which isn't solvable with internal DNS and loadbalancers in our use case.