Hehe "shenanigans" ;-)

The truth is, most things can be made to work - though there are various trade-offs ("shenanigans") involved.

e.g: In my current project, there's a bit that loads large-ish files, parses/converts the data, and loads them (order of tens of thousands of rwos) into SQL tables.

For reasons that best escape me - since after the files are parsed the entire dataset is _literally_ in memory, instead of doing a bulk sql update there- and then, thousands of messages are enqueued to be consumed by a practically unlimited number of lambda functions that then... bomb out as the SQL database hits it's connection limit and keels over.

I guess those shenanigans have better buzzword compliance!