The Container Throttling Problem 5 years ago
Its not that it was made complicated. Its trading one type of complexity for another. I think your under estimating the costs of having a one off team run their own service and hardware. There is also an opportunity cost for those people wasting time running hardware and the support teams involved for a unique service. They could save some couple millions of dollars or they could work on projects that enable much more growth. Twitter has $1.2b in revenue in a quarter.