[ljm]

I guess the operative word is 'underpowered'.

My low-stakes conspiracy theory though is that cloud providers (and symbiotic entities in the ecosystem) have helped turn developers against monoliths in favour of self-serve microservice architectures and devops because there's a lot more money in it for them when people are spinning up dozens of hermetically sealed, over-provisioned services, each with their own DB, cache, load balancer, etc.

It's like corporate welfare, redistributing wealth from VCs to Bezos.

[unlogic]

The term "linear scaling" was invented by cloud companies to sell more cloud.