In this world of micro-services and Kubernetes, it was nice to be working on a system built as a monolith running in a plain old EC2 instance. But recently, during load testing, the service we’ve been working on as been showing signs of stress — timing out, maxing out the CPU — and it’s become clear that scaling up has taken us only so far. So now might be time to rearchitect this into micro-services and move it into something like Kubernetes. This was probably always going to happen. I’m just glad that it’s happening now, rather than before it was necessary.
Alex Strick van Linschoten I guess it’s also nice that this is somehow (by now) a fairly well-trodden pattern for teams? I imagine it might have been a much more risky proposition even a few years back.
Leon Mika @softcow Yeah, that’s true. Certainly a few people I work with have had success with Kubernetes in previous roles (and, to be fair, so have we on other aspects of the system).