In 1991, the entire web fit in 8MB. A Hello World app now requires 500MB. We made software 62,500 times larger to do the same thing. If this were any other discipline, there'd be a congressional hearing.
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Stack Overflow serves 1.3 billion page views a month with 9 web servers. WhatsApp hit 450M users with 32 engineers. You have 500 users and three Kubernetes clusters.
Your /health endpoint runs through 12 middleware functions to return {ok: true}. Your architecture is doing a pull-up, a squat, and a mile run before it's allowed to say I'm fine.
Your framework didn't remove complexity. It hid it somewhere you can't find at 3am when everything is on fire.