[MrBuddyCasino]

> I’ve spent time in some of the largest distributed computing deployments

Yeah obviously if you run hundreds or thousands of severs then efficiency matters a lot, but then there isn't really the option to use a single machine with a lot of RAM instead, is there?

I'm talking about the typical BigCorp whose core business is something else than IT, like insurance, construction, mining, retail, whatever. Saving a single AKS cluster just doesn't move the needle.

[hobos_delight]

Yeah I see your point where it just doesn’t matter, especially back the the original point where it may not be at scale now, but you don’t want to go through the budget / approval process when you need it etc.

I think my original point was more in the “engineers want to do cool, scalable stuff” realm - and so any solution has to support scaling out to the n’th degree.

Organisational factors pull a whole new dimension into this.

[MrBuddyCasino]

I mean yeah, definitely - it blows my mind how much tolerance for needless complexity the average engineer has. The principal/agent mismatch applies universally, and beyond that it is also a coordination problem - when every engineer plays by the "resume driven development" rules, opting out may not be best move, individually.