Amazing. And as long as "technological progress" sufficiently obscures the impact of such ridiculousness the more such projects will continue to occur.

It's a real shame that the collective world of technology does not properly respect the simple solutions that work.

It is almost funny the dichotomy here. Most technological people "admire" the simplicity, elegance and extensibility of the command line. But tell those same people that the best data store for the solution is a relational database and their nose crinkles up.

Yeah, after getting caught up in the hype for ten years I'm running back to proven tech that is flushed out (Java, Swing-omg it just works, wanting to try Ruby,even PHP is looking good at this point).

Every dependency scrutinized and discarded if possible.

I would probably work for free if someone setup their own on-prem cloud in Tanzu, Open shift, or Ranger and used old school proven frameworks for development.

Working in AWS has been a real shitty experience at these large companies. All the nit picky problems (of which there are thousands) get dumped on devs who are trying to deliver working software.