Comment by pascahousut

My understanding is that it is a common and sad phenomenon of the cloud era that systems are unnecessarily complex and costly relative to the actual computational requirements mandated by the actual volume at which the system is realistically going to be used. For example, it is very easy to have more microservices than users because bootstrapping complicated systems has never been as easy as it is now, but architecting good systems and finding the correct problems to solve is just as hard as it has ever been.