I mostly use Netflix as somewhere you’ve reached a technical point where you need to spread horizontally. As StackOverflow you can scale rather far without doin

I mostly use Netflix as somewhere you’ve reached a technical point where you need to spread horizontally. As StackOverflow you can scale rather far without doing so if your product isn’t streaming billions of gigabytes of video to the entire world through numerous platforms. So what I mean by it is that many of will never reach those technical requirements. Sorry that I wasn’t clear. I don’t disagree with what you say at all, but I do think you can very easily “over design” your IT landscape. Like we have a few Python services which aren’t build cleverly and run on docker containers without clever monitoring. But they’ve only failed once in 7 years and that was due to a hardware failure on a controller that died 5 years before it should’ve.