Risk management is a fact of all activities. It's not predicting that some thing is going to happen, but it's evaluating that if we can afford the consequences if it really happens. If we can, let's go ahead with the easy choice. If we cannot, let's make sure that it won't affect us as much.
> Smart, experienced people got us into the current microservice, frontend JS, "serverless" cloud messes.
Those are solutions to real problems. The real issue is the cargo cult, aka "Google is doing it, let's do it too". If you don't have the problem, don't adopt the solution (which always bring its own issues). It's always a balancing act as there is no silver bullet.
> Smart, experienced people got us into the current microservice, frontend JS, "serverless" cloud messes.
Those are solutions to real problems. The real issue is the cargo cult, aka "Google is doing it, let's do it too". If you don't have the problem, don't adopt the solution (which always bring its own issues). It's always a balancing act as there is no silver bullet.