I wish I had a time machine, go 15 years in the past and could watch the expression on peoples faces when I tell them: "You think J2EE with EJB has gone too far? Let me show you this microservice application architecture and the accompanying tracing, observation, instrumentation, service mesh and sidecars from the future! But wait, there is more! We have a thing we call....Devops!"
I know this is a joke and an objectively terrible practice in many ways - but I still do this on many personal projects and the productivity boost feels amazing.
Sure, it doesn't scale and there a a host of problems with it. But I still long for the days.
