[motorest]

> I have worked at scale - I have found countless examples of people not believing in simple solutions which eventually prevail and replace the big-complex thing.

I have worked at scale. I have found examples where simple solutions prevail due to inertia and inability or unwillingness to acknowledge the simple solutions failed to adequately address the requirements. The accidental complexity created by those simple solutions is downplayed as it would require reevaluating the simple solution, and thus run books and operations and maintenances are required as part of your daily operations because that's how the system is. And changing it would be too costly.

Let's not fool ourselves.

[monkeyelite]

> I have worked at scale

Yep- this is why it’s a silly comment to make. Now we are where we are if we didn’t qualify the conversation as being for “big scale engineers” only.

How did those replacements go? Or were you just hoping for the opportunity?