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> people shouldn’t be reaching for Hadoop when Postgres would suffice. Indexes are fast. Use them.

let me try a riskier one: "people should not be reaching for kubernetes when a system administrator would suffice. sysadmins are cheap(er?) than clouds, use them"

it did not come out very well.... I got stuck trying to find what to contrast kube with; all I got in them minutes alloted to comment posting was 'system administrator'. meh.

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I thought you still need a sysadmin or whoever is needed to set up and maintain kubernetes.

Nowadays K3s is worth the small learning curve with a big payoff as you get a lot of automation included / by installing an operator :-)

> … K3s…

I’m assuming this isn’t a typo and you mean Kubes?

https://kubes.guru/getting-started/

I don't know what OP meant, but https://k3s.io/ also fits the context.

K8s is an abbreviation of kubernetes K3s is an abbreviation of k8s

... wouldn't that be k1s?

Yes, I meant this K3s as it's trivial to deploy and quite mature by now.

Thanks for confirming.

Everyone wants to use k8s and like 1% need it in any shape or form. It basically acts as a conspiracy between otherwise-redundant ops level people and those running Kubernettes against the companies who have to pay for all this. Just use Fargate, and be done.

> sysadmins are cheap(er?) than clouds, use them

This is just another lazy take.

There are many reasons why companies move to the cloud. Cost is not the only consideration.

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