Thanks for the explanation. I guess the overhead does make sense at a certain scale. The unfortunate thing is that articles like this always end up inspiring so

Thanks for the explanation. I guess the overhead does make sense at a certain scale. The unfortunate thing is that articles like this always end up inspiring some bored engineer/CTO to redesign everything so it is "webscale" like Netflix and blow the mid/small-sized companies' Christmas bonus on AWS bills.