Comment by ryandrake

My background is in embedded, so I admittedly know extremely little about web development, but whenever I'm curious and sit down to read about microservices and containers and orchestration and all that stuff, my mind starts to numb and I can't help but conclude that 99% of companies that use it probably don't need to. And that they're just a complex way for engineers to keep themselves spinning their wheels and not actually working on an application. Like that guy who insists on doing nothing but refactoring and rearchitecting and moving things from one layer in the stack to the other, re-writing in different languages, integrating new third party libraries that do the same thing their existing third party libraries, but not actually adding anything that improves the product. How did the world get into this situation where you need all this complexity just to deploy and configure not even an application, but part of an application? Amazing!