Gregory's Server@teajaygrey @collinsworth I’m inside the belly of the beast and still don’t get believed sometimes (it’s assumed we must have no traffic because of how simple our topology is, but often we do more traffic than the team of the person making the assumption).
I will say though - FAANGs choose the architectures they do because they consider butts in seats to be a proxy for size/complexity/ambition/etc. and want to turn the head count knob as a proxy for more or less investment.
@teajaygrey @collinsworth Conway’s Law and all, so you end up with architectures which create more baseline work to justify more baseline headcount. Eventually this creates a death spiral and there becomes a project to replace this system with one that does half as many things but is simpler to maintain.