The issue here is not much the hardware, but the services that run on top of them. I guess that many companies that use "current practices" have plenty of serv

The issue here is not much the hardware, but the services that run on top of them. I guess that many companies that use "current practices" have plenty of services that they don't even know about running on their clusters. The main difference is that instead of the kind of issues that the link talks about, you have those services running year after year, using resources, for the joy of the cloud companies. This happens even at Google [1]: "There are several remarkable aspects to this story. One is that running a Bigtable was so inconsequential to Google’s scale that it took 2 years before anyone even noticed it, and even then, only because the version was old. " [1] https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprecation-policy-is-killing-you-ee7525dc05dc https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...