> They might realize Debra has been sitting in that corner, staring at uptime graphs of the internal server farm for 10 years, despite the fact that the company moved to AWS five years ago.

Ouch. The tone of the article is a little harsh, and I’m not sure if snippets like the above are intentionally hyperbolic, but there is a fair amount of truth in it.

Most of my career has involved convincing peers to do less, and solve simpler problems with simpler solutions.