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So there should be magic on every layer except for the application?

That will never happen, the only thing you can do is pay someone like heroku to take care of that for you. Or if your project is small and plain enough you run “serverless” which is just routing to another platform team, as I’m sure you’re familiar.

It’s complicated because there’s a lot that goes on, kubernetes or not.

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You literally use magic like that all the time with Linux, compilers, language runtimes. Magic is perfectly good when it works. Being able to do anything you want with a quick “presto” is amazing. Nobody should have to learn arcane spells, study the ancient tomes, and communicate with beings of the ethereal plane - somebody just needs to figure out the next “presto”. And historically speaking, usually somebody does when there’s an incentive to do so.

In other words - Serverless is another platform team in the same way Linux is another OS team or Java is another language team. And for 99.9% of companies a language team or OS team would be absurd. There’s a big incentive for platform work to go the same way.

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