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Why is everything so scalable?
I’m entirely convinced that basically every developer alive today heard the adage “dress for the job you want, not the job you have” and figured that, since they always wear jeans and a t-shirt anyway, they might as well apply it to their systems’ architecture. This explains why the stack of every single company I’ve seen is invariably AWS/GCP with at least thirty microservices (how else will you keep the code tidy?), a distributed datastore that charges per query but whose reads depend on how long it’s been before the last write, a convoluted orchestrator to make sure that you never know which actual computer your code runs on, autoscaling so random midnight breakages ensure you don’t get too complacent with your sleep schedule, and exactly two customers (well, potential customers).
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