Load balancing, logging, and other associated components are all still there. Almost nothing changed in the actual architecture, just how it was hosted.
I have a hard time seeing why this was beneficial.
Sounds worth it to me.
https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-stand-to-save-7m-over-five-year...
Oncall, new features, security etc.
No small it department I worked with, was anywhere close to the features and quality of Google and co.
Which seems to be also the case for Basecamp/37signals.
If we had gone down the k8s on-prem rabbit-hole, I suspect we would have required more folks to manage those components and complexity.
It's just concepts put into a strict system. Now you're just shimming the same concepts with less supported hacks. Now you have to train your team on less used technology that isn't transferable to other roles. Sounds like technical debt to me.
To be fair, they don't seem to be saying their strategy is for everybody but the audience thinks so? I think we're talking past each other, tbh.
And I would love to spend a few days with there team to understand it.
he may have just become my new hero