Certainly when we managed Twitch’s ~10,000 boxes of video servers, neither of the tasks you describe would have been simple. We underinvested in tools, for sure

Certainly when we managed Twitch’s ~10,000 boxes of video servers, neither of the tasks you describe would have been simple. We underinvested in tools, for sure. Even so, I don’t think you can really argue that dynamically changing configs like this are going to make life easier!