Comment by oofbey

True. But “big beef” is complicated and difficult to make reliable. Horizontal scaling of unreliable servers is dirt simple to stay up through almost anything except sudden load spikes. And then it’s largely a matter of configuring your auto scaling and retries.

That said big beef is so simple to start with. And this story is a strong example that YAGNI is a practical reality for almost everybody wrt “distributed everything”.