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by yuppie_scum 1466 days ago
K8s spun off of Google’s Borg operator software specifically designed for high availability at FAANG scale. So essentially K8s is the “community edition.” Go read the Google SRE Book for context.

We use it to serve ruby with 50 million requests per minute just fine. And the best part is the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler which saves our ass during seasonal spikes.

While serverless/lambda are great I do think K8s is the most flexible way to serve rapidly changing containerized workload at scale.