[bryanlarsen]

Kubernetes has helped to make our app less distributed.

Parts of the system were distributed not for capacity, but for HA reasons. So where before we had two instances of beanstalkd with their own storage and clients had logic to talk to both, we now have a single instance of beanstalkd backed by distributed storage and a Kubernetes service that points to it.

And I think we get more benefit deploying dependencies than we do our own apps. If one of them is low volume and needs mysql, just `helm install mariadb`. No complicated HA setup, no worries about backups, we already know how to backup volumes.