Title: There is an odd gatekeeping duality on tech forums:<p>1. You&#x27;re not a proper engineer if you can&#x27;t write scalable, highly available software that scales to infinity. Real engineers write production-grade, robust, fault tolerant, scalable, highly available, observable mission-critical systems.<p>2. <i>No one</i> actually needs large distributed systems, you&#x27;re not google, stop trying to build large scalable systems. One Server + backup is enough. Everything else is overkill, complexity, resume-driven engineering. I can handle 50k RPS with one beefy bare metal machine, written in Rust. Unless you have 10 million customers, which 99.9% of companies don&#x27;t have.<p>I&#x27;m not sure how to feel about this.
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