So someone overengineered something in 2022, and therefore, nothing's better?
How about my anecdata:
2010: your infrastructure is automated using a handful of Bash, Perl and Python scripts written by two system administrators. They are custom, brittle in the face of scaling needs, and get rewritten continuously as your market share and resulting traffic grows. Outages happen far too often, you think, but you would, because you're someone who gets paged for this shit, because you know a core system well... ...that got broken by a Perl script you didn't wrote.
2019: your infrastructure runs on EKS, applications are continuously deployed as soon as they're ready using Jenkins and Flux. You wrote some YAML, but it's far better than that Perl stuff you used to have to do. The IDE support is like night vs day. You have two sysops, or devops, or whatever, who watch over the infra. You've had to attend to a system outage once in the past two years, because an AWS datacentre overheated, and the sysops just wanted to be sure.
You write some YAML, the sysops write some CDK. Your system is far more dynamically scalable, auditable, and reliable.
My anecdote can totally beat up your anecdote.(In other words, this is a silly line of argument)
How about my anecdata:
2010: your infrastructure is automated using a handful of Bash, Perl and Python scripts written by two system administrators. They are custom, brittle in the face of scaling needs, and get rewritten continuously as your market share and resulting traffic grows. Outages happen far too often, you think, but you would, because you're someone who gets paged for this shit, because you know a core system well... ...that got broken by a Perl script you didn't wrote.
2019: your infrastructure runs on EKS, applications are continuously deployed as soon as they're ready using Jenkins and Flux. You wrote some YAML, but it's far better than that Perl stuff you used to have to do. The IDE support is like night vs day. You have two sysops, or devops, or whatever, who watch over the infra. You've had to attend to a system outage once in the past two years, because an AWS datacentre overheated, and the sysops just wanted to be sure.
You write some YAML, the sysops write some CDK. Your system is far more dynamically scalable, auditable, and reliable.
My anecdote can totally beat up your anecdote.(In other words, this is a silly line of argument)