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In my experience, giving code preferential treatment is how you end up with complexity lunacy; so I’ll add an addendum to Conway’s Law:

“Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure — and which mirrors the skills of its key creators.”

K8s is designed to solve Google problems. Your startup will not have Google problems. Your startup will have Pinterest problems, or Gitlab problems, or Reddit problems — at which point you do not need K8s; you need someone who knows infra (which I expect devs to be working on distributed systems to understand).

Using K8s in a startup context is a sign of conformist thinking, detached from any critical aspect.