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I completely agree. Most developers simply copy whatever is currently popular without taking into consideration their specific context and biz requirements. Almost all software solutions are massively complexed, with many points of failure, and high latencies for every single transaction, leading to a death spiral of even more complex and expensive “solutions” for “performance” reasons. Microservices is the poster child for this. In contrast, a single high-performance server can handle the full workload of 99.99% of web applications out there. With a separate warm stand-by server ready to take over if needed, and a linear event transaction log as the source of truth.