Today I received a call from a colleague (a good one). They're developing a platform for a client (based on Laravel), kind of an online community. They have dozens of them, some with tens of thousands of users hosted on their own Linux or FreeBSD servers. Performance? No issues.

But here's the thing. Their internal team insists on building the entire infrastructure on Kubernetes, on Azure, with autoscaling and the whole shebang. Plus, they want to manage logins using ActiveDirectory. For a community. Which will, at most, have a few hundred users with only a handful being active.

I opted out. I just feel sorry for my colleague who doesn't have that luxury.

Why are some people so adamant about hopping onto trends without understanding that just because something is fashionable doesn’t mean it's the best fit? Why commit to a specific platform and tie yourself down with Microsoft, especially at a project's inception?

I hoped that with age, I'd grasp these dynamics better. I doubt I ever will. 🤷

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