Yah this all sounds good until you realize you have to actually maintain those servers, apply security patches and inevitably run into configuration drift. Lik

Yah this all sounds good until you realize you have to actually maintain those servers, apply security patches and inevitably run into configuration drift. Like all things, there's a good middle ground here-- use managed services where you can but don't over-architect features like availability & scaling. For example, Kubernetes is an heavy abstraction; make sure it's worth it. A lot of these solutions also increase dev cycles, which is not great early on.