[Nextgrid]

I've had gigs where it felt like the company was spending more time fighting self-inflicted consequences of their "best practice" "cloud-native" architecture than developing actual revenue-generating features.

So many problems they were dealing with would magically disappear if all the services were running on a single high-end physical machine (the scale didn't mandate anything bigger than that) with a standby one sitting in a different DC for redundancy purposes with incremental DB snapshots shipped to it every 15 mins.

The cloud-native, "modern" infra became a liability and impediment to business but too many people would lose face to admit it.