Everything you said 110%

I wish I understood why some engineers feel the need to over-engineer the crap out of everything.

Is it because of wishful thinking? They think their blog is gonna eventually become so popular that they're handling thousands of requests per second, and they want to scale up NOW?

I just think about what web servers looked like at the turn of the millennium. We didn't have all these levels of abstraction. No containers. Not even VMs. And we did it on hardware that would be considered so weak that they'd be considered utterly worthless by today's standards.

And yet...it worked. We did it.

Now we've got hardware that is literally over 1000 times faster. Faster clocks, more cache, higher IPC, and multiple cores. And I feel like half of the performance gains are being thrown away by adding needless abstractions and overhead.

FFS...how many websites were doing just fine with a simple LAMP stack?