You make valid points, and good ones. You also need to understand (you probably do) that application these days have to be hybrid, live in the cloud and on premise. That means having different backing stores depending on where it resides, SQL and NoSQL are often needed and you need to be able to handle both in your application with 0 code duplication. Just saying that modeling your business/application layer is now reduced to consuming and sending mappings to some abstraction defined in your settings.

Things like MongoDB, Table Storage from Azure, anything non relational that has existed for a long time?

We use Teams and had a teams live event today with 1000+ people connected around the globe with no problems.

Bullshit. We have everything on Azure, table, blob storage, aks clusters, service bus, you name it. Still works like a charm. We do have resiliency built-in so minor hiccups don't affect our availability (several 9s).

Name one recent affliction/virus/flu that overloaded the hospitals like this is doing.

Your critical thinking skills stop in the present it seems.

And live in the US.

Most of the people that died in Italy had a previous condition like high-blood pressure, diabetes, etc. Hope you don't suffer from those same conditions.

Name the better alternatives. How is it a piece of crap?

We do (world-wide company). You want to chat with someone? Just search for a name and chat. Outlook meetings are integrated, so you have your calendar integrated. Video calls? The push of a button with your team. It even has a whiteboard that everyone can use at the same time, record and share. You can share your screen as well. Pretty darn useful.

Are you a troll? How is the interface terrible? You want to chat with someone? Just chat. Outlook meetings are integrated, so you have your calendar integrated. Video calls? The push of a button with your team. It even has a whiteboard that everyone can use at the same time, record and share. I guess you don't use it do you?

Your number is going to grow...

The death rate in Italy for example is around 8% and other places 3%-4$. h1n1 was around 0.01% to 0.08%. You do the math with the order of magnitudes...

Turbo Pascal was taught in my first year of C.S., data structures, etc.

How else are you going to have an integrated load balancer, auto-scaler, etc out of the box?