[mhitza]

Company CTOs in my experience get sold very easily the idea of infinite scalability. In practice not many companies reach that point, but many that go down this road have to build on top of dozens of layers of compute/networking abstractions that only few experts on the team can manage, if any, competently.

I think the cost of self-managed Linux VMs and monoliths is smaller than the cloud vendors made it seem.

Containers are nice when you have to deal with a language like Python and it's packaging ecosystem, but when Go/Rust/.Net/etc binaries are placed in containers as well... I think sight of what we're trying to solve in real life has been kind of lost.

[ManBeardPc]

Monoliths are so much easier for smaller teams. No additional tooling needed, no service discovery, instead of networks calls you have function calls, can share resources, etc. Much less overhead as well, so you may not even need to scale. The amount of requests a single Go/Rust server can handle on a dedicated machine is insanely high with modern hardware.