I do agree but I hope people don't take the wrong lesson from this. For example, there's a "right way" to not do scalability and a wrong way. The right way wou

I do agree but I hope people don't take the wrong lesson from this. For example, there's a "right way" to not do scalability and a wrong way. The right way would be avoiding patterns like microservices early on, while still minimizing human intervention and brittle integrations. The wrong way is to just have some kludgy solution that causes headaches for your customers. With our budgets tightening we axed startup vendor we were paying $90K/yr to because their shit was slow and kept breaking, pissing off our customers. We were able to spin up replacement functionality for their product in 6 weeks.