“we” is me. Kubernetes is easier. yes, file descriptors are handled by managed k8s. that was a small example. I could go much further with it. the ecosystem is far easier and I’d never go back to the way you’re describing because it is just rearchitecting the wheel.

You do need service discovery at some point at scale if you are using any kind of distributed system. that is quite a strong claim. what do you have to support that claim?

You sound like you’ve never really seen scale and I’m not sure how to respond in a way that is polite. It is heavily dependent on your use case and industry. if you can get by with docker containers, good for you! My only point is you are probably reinventing the wheel here.