[okamiueru]

My take on this is that the issue is not declarative infrastructure resources, but a tendency to over-complicate the infrastructure.

For example: You have a problem that is suitable for some message queue -> Apache Kafka. Now you have 7 new problems and the complexity warrants perhaps 3 other services, and on, and on.

[pmig]

Introducing complexity is always something that needs to be introduced carefully. It makes things harder if you introduce it to early, but everything will break in a big bang if you introduce it too late.

Nowadays you can also start with a light weight MQ like Rabbit MQ and decouple your service just into a hand full components. This will set you up for scalability without introducing massive overheads.

In end it is also always a knowledge game. How experienced are you or how much time are you willing to invest into learning and understanding a technology.