[Cthulhu_]

Sounds like a correction from going all-in on microservices back to a more normal/natural, on-demand scalable architecture. Honestly a lot of architectures are selected based on hype instead of if it's the right solution. And a big reason for that is hiring and artificially creating excitement for developers, because let's face it, most software development is boring.

[hodgesrm]

Speaking of boring development, I took a programming aptitude test at the first company I worked for many years ago. If you got a good score you could stop doing boring tasks like data entry or tape backups and learn to write programs instead. The exam room was pretty crowded as that sounded much more fun.

The guy giving the test saw it as his duty to tamp down our excessive enthusiasm. After explaining how the test worked he then told us how a recent study showed that programming was the 10th most boring job in the US. He went on at some length. This was back in the days of COBOL running on mainframes so there was probably something in what he said. At the time I supposed he was trying to provide consolation if you got a bad score. Be that as it may, the "stat" stuck with me for the rest of my life.