Didn't help that we had made these components and services into commodities. Developers and organizations came to expect them. Of course you use CI/CD pipelines to build and deploy your software. Of course you use orchestration and autoscaling groups. And so on.

So that even if you're building small website for your local soccer club it's probably run through GHA on every change with a full red/green deploy process, run on autoscaling groups and so on.

Never mind that most of these applications' databases could fit into RAM on a single server with 24 cores and never even touch the system limits.