> when in fact in 2025 you hardly even need to consider the performance of the web requests themselves until you're into the range of interest until you're in the many thousands per core... and that's just when you need to start thinking about it.

Pretending this is not the case is the bread and butter of so many companies nowadays, saying this is basically like screaming in the void.

You have no idea of the amount of "cloud-native" applications I have seen throwing 10k a month to Databricks for things that could have been done as efficiently by a small server in a cupboard with a proper architecture. The company’s architects did enjoy the conferences though.

At that point, it’s probably better for you to keep pretending and enjoy the graft like everyone else. Unless you are paying of course.