[sroussey]

> trying to seem smart/clever.

Maybe. Every time I write something I consider clever, I often regret it later.

But young people in particular tend to write code using things they don’t need because they want experience in those things. (Just look at people using kubernetes long before there is any need as an example). Where and when this is done can be good or bad, it depends.

Even in a web app, you might want to pack bools into bytes depending on what you are doing. For example, I’ve done stuff with deck.gl and moving massive amounts of data between webworkers and the size of data is material.

It did take a beat to consider an example though, so I do appreciate your point.

Coming from a double major including EE though, all I have to say is that everyone’s code everywhere is just a bunch of NOR gates. Now if you want to increase your salary, looking up why I say “everything is NOR” won’t be useful. But if you are curious, it is interesting to see how one Boolean operand can implement everything.

[mewpmewp2]

I can understand writing your own instance and deployment "orchestrator", but I would not consider trying k8s for fun, because it just seems like some arbitrary config you have to learn for something someone else has built.