> While I love reading Hacker News posts about the amazing infrastructure at successful companies, I worry that these discussions may encourage an over-emphasis on perfection and scale.

God yes! I read all these blog posts about people's amazing automated deployment systems that use 17 different technologies where they have F on top of E on top of D on top of C on top of B on top of A on top of Kubernetes on top of Docker on top of AWS, and it's like, A.) When did you actually do any, you know, "work" - the stuff that you can charge clients for and make money? And B.) What's going to happen when some company or someone releases a patch or security update for any of the 7829271 applications in the stack that breaks everything?

You know what we run? Linux. On AWS. Using chef - although every community cookbook I ever look at makes me less sure that that was the right call (most community cookbooks make me think suicide might be the right call).