I see this "Push for new and shiny solutions"[1] across everything from startups to large corporations. And I am genuinely surprised at how often I see people falling for this good old trap of over-optimization/engineering. I genuinely cannot fathom why people want the complexity.

It is by no means constrained to infrastructure, it is architecture, technology, management the whole lot.

[1]http://jesperreiche.com/the-push-for-new-and-shiny-solutions...