Funnily enough most of those pods and serverless functions etc. will likely have magnitudes less available resources than a 5$ instance on Digital Ocean.

But... but... Google are doing it!

I agree with the “you are not FAANG” sentiment and I think HN could use the frequent reminder, but I’ve come around on Kubernetes. As soon as you have multiple services that need to talk to each other in multiple environments (staging, prod, etc), infrastructure-as-code is immensely useful. Kubernetes lets you do IAC without tying yourself to a particular cloud.

So it’s overkill for a CRUD app, but you certainly don’t need the scale of Google to find it useful.

I would state this as "you'd be surprised by what you can do with a monolith on a single server"