(I'm re-pasting this intro to a few posters) Hey! I'm Caleb, the SRE that helped build this solution... Sorry about the lack of context in the article, it was

(I'm re-pasting this intro to a few posters) Hey! I'm Caleb, the SRE that helped build this solution... Sorry about the lack of context in the article, it was intended for a specific audience (QCon) where we gave a lot more context to the problem at hand. What we were trying to solve for was; 1) Low latency 2) High Availability 3) Container based, zero-downtime deployments 4) Continued operations even in an internet-down event If you're running applications in a few locations, in small scale environments, our approach would be way overkill for that problem set.