@stefano any good resources on these technologies?

@stefano Oh nice! I can’t quite wrap my head around Kubernetes, so right before I am now about to read your entry, I wanted to say: ”this sounds refreshing!”.

@stefano
Excellent writing as always!
Yes, what's optimum depends on the use-cases and workloads.
And also, flexibilities for additional optimizations are always important.

In many cases, clouds are somewhat "overkill and expensive", but for ticket sellers that need to handle rushing 10000x of connections for, i.e., 5000 sheets to be sold in 1 sec. This should be promised use-cases only for clouds. Because it would handle far less connections per day (or even weeks, months).
But this applies when the same cloud provider provides quite cheap and limited loads to quite expensive extremely huge spikes in "customizable single service".

@stefano Love that story!
As a privacy-engaged sysadm with security focus, my personal take is that keeping the enviroment simple - or to use a more proper word - understandable, is key to effectively manage an environment during incidents.
Keep up the good work, and thanks for sharing your experience, appreciated! 👍

@stefano the only positive to have moved from platform engineering to product owner is that I stopped dealing with all the DevOps craziness out there, mainly Kubernetes.
Life was simpler in the old days...