> Modern engineering is a dumpster fire of complexity mostly hocked by shills working to sell contracts to enterprises. I think that's like 10% of the reason.

> Modern engineering is a dumpster fire of complexity mostly hocked by shills working to sell contracts to enterprises. I think that's like 10% of the reason. 80% is following hype(-), resume-driven engineering (-), and or standardizing on non-proprietary tools to improve job mobility(+). Sure, maybe maintaining the esoteric DSL created by my employer's custom load balancer and DB failover codebases named after obscure comic book characters[1] may arguably be the "right" thing to do - or I could advocate for k8s which may be a little overkill for our needs, but is easier to onboard new joiners, and once can actually search for solutions on StackOverflow. Kubernetes is also a jack of all trades and is designed to handle configurations much more complex than I have, but at least it's "portable". 1. "Oh, _La'varo_ is named after a villain that appeared in a 1959 issue of Superman (Volume 7), it once was an LB that avoided hot instances when routing requests, but now its KV store"