[mattjaynes]

It's never been easier or cheaper to run systems.

And yet, engineers would rather deliver a pizza by organizing an expedition team, climbing Mount Everest, taking a picture of the pizza at the summit, then fly the pizza back home, rent a Lamborghini and drive the Mongolian rally race, then 18 months later deliver said pizza.

While they do that, just get on a cheap scooter and drive it down the street. Win.

[flanked-evergl]

I have never worked anywhere where engineers injected complexity comparable to that injected by management.

[inductive_magic]

I have. There are multiple types of engineer which insist on migrating "legacy" (stable) systems to "state of the art" (cooler, modern, en vogue) tech.

You'd be surprised how many companies that maintained <20 vms migrated to k8s. The motivations include ordering a chaotic status quo, premature optimisation, young blood wanting to prove themselves, boredom, "its new so it must be better", "i want to try this" [...], you get the idea.

[lurking15]

I hear loud-mouthed people at work talking about introducing "durable execution" when there's so many other fish to fry and the company can't achieve those well already.

[lobocinza]

I have.