I still remember the absolute shock GAE was to me.

Back in 2006, for a lot of people when you wanted to run a service, you configured your own LAMP server. Once everything was running, you didn't touch it and hoped there was not going to be a power failure.

Then GAE came and for the first time you got security updates, uptime, and automatic scaling without having a dedicated sysadmin. Needless to say that I've been a customer and advocate of this service from the beginning. My oldest service is still running. I just had to update a .yaml file twice... in a decade.

It's kind of sad the amount of people that are wasting their time administrating their own servers when it could be done automatically. I suspect the hype around k8s will waste millennia of man-power.