| OK, you are correct. Let's introduce nuance: I as a dev should not waste days on this -- something I have no experience in. I can add the basic service / ingress / whatever and move on with life. The infra / platform guys can add HA and backups later, right? > I think for most places, most of the time Kubernetes is overkill. Then we agree. I am not sure this app in particular was a good fit for k8s though; having it on a DO droplet + managed Postgres + managed Kafka would have taken me 1 hour, 40 minutes of which would be me cursing because I forgot to put a host name and port combo somewhere. :D > I think for most places, most of the time Kubernetes is overkill. True, but as you yourself said, backups and high availability are much harder on bare metal -- for devs anyway. I can do an amazing job at it because I do it at home for my stuff buuuuuuuut, it's going to take me days, maybe even two work weeks. Not a good time investment. That's why I am resenting it when I have to do it: it's wasting my time with something that I never learn properly so I have to relearn it every time from scratch because I can't engrave it in my memory and that is because I never do it for long enough stretches of time to indeed remember it. I already complained to my manager about it and he took it seriously, by the way. I am not raging at you or others about a deficient process in my employer's company (that I plan to help fixing, or at least mitigate somewhat). I am displeased with the fact how everyone just settled on a very, VERY low maxima -- and somehow nobody wants to rock the boat. We can do better. We should do better. But alas, guys like myself have worked 22+ years on stuff they don't love -- and I already have burnout and hate working programming for money, which is another tragedy entirely -- and will NEVER EVER get the chance to change anything at all because I have no choice but work for the man... for now. Though at 40+ I am not sure I have the strength to manage to somehow command huge commissions for consulting or w/e else. Anyhow, off-topic. Again, we should do better. |