Ha! The new infrastructure of cloud services was supposed to be easier. But it too has gotten complex, with managing VMs, app updates, OS updates, networking issues, load balancing etc.

All to get the often-vapor feature of 'scalability'. And it seems believable because these frameworks are so heavy, they run like slugs and need to scale almost immediately.

{old guy rant} In the old days, we got 1200 queries per second from our stock quote server, on a pathetic single-processor server with 12MB RAM. Didn't need to scale, not for 5 years.