[jjav]

> Because it's cheaper now to throw hardware at a problem than actually try to fix the code or root of the issue.

It's not cheaper, it's just more opaque.

Back when your service was deployed on that 2 CPU box and it was too slow for obvious reasons, you optimized it and then it was good.

Today you just shrug and increase that kubernetes cluster from 16 to 48 nodes and forget about it. Costs a lot but the bill shows up somewhere else, in most groups the engineer doesn't even know what it is.