[alexandreolive]

Hello, I'm the writer of the article. We are using Kubernetes for our whole architecture, consisting of around 40 microservices and cron jobs. I just wanted in this article to give an example of asynchronous architecture using Kubernetes and RabbitMQ.

We are using RabbitMQ because it's my company target solution. There might better so lighter solution that would fit us but having just one for every solution is easier to maintain.

Great comment about GPU hardware acceleration for encoding, I'm going to look this up.

[andrewstuart]

So Kubernetes is only in this architecture because other systems use it and its required by the parent company but not needed.

That's pretty important context.

[alexandreolive]

That's not what I said; sorry if that was not clear. The parent company requires RabbitMQ, we are using Kubernetes because managing 40 microservices without it would be hell. In the article, I only showed 1 user-facing API, but it's actually multiple services, I just did not want to complicate it too much.