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I feel the exact same way.

There are so many use cases that get shoved into the latest, shiniest box just because it’s new and shiny.

A colleague of mine once suggested running a CMS we manage for customers on a serverless stack because “it would be so cheap”. When you face unexpected traffic bursts or a DDoS, it becomes very expensive, very fast. Customers don’t really want to be billed per execution during a traffic storm.

It would also have been far outside the normal environment that CMS expects, and wouldn’t have been supported by any of our commercial, vendored dependencies.

Our stack is so much less complicated without running everything in Docker, and perhaps ironically, about half of our stack runs in Kubernetes. The other half is “just software on VMs” we manage through typical tools like SSH and Ansible.