[abraxas]

And the tower of ever more obscure abstractions just keeps on growing. Until one of these fragile layers starts to malfunction and the whole thing comes tumbling down and nobody has a clue how to fix it all up.

Collectively, as an industry we have gone insane.

[harpratap]

People have attempted simpler abstractions and it has always failed. CloudFoundry, Mesos+Marathon, Heroku were all simple at first and none of them revolutionized the industry.