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by dbackeus 642 days ago
(Reclaim the Stack creator here)

We don't do autoscaling.

The main reason for Kubernetes for us was automation of monitoring / logs / alerting and highly available database deployments.

37signals has a dedicated operations team with more than 10 people. We have 0 dedicated operations people. We would not have been able to run our product with Kamal given our four nines uptime target.

(that said, I do like Kamal, especially v2 seems to smooth out some edges, and I'm all for simple single server deployments)