This is one position... albeit an extreme one. Kubernetes has worked perfectly for me in multiple places now. Including where I am now at a large unicorn. I a

This is one position... albeit an extreme one. Kubernetes has worked perfectly for me in multiple places now. Including where I am now at a large unicorn. I agree, picking up all the shiny new stuff on hacker news is generally a bad idea. But foresaking new technologies altogether can backfire. Part of it is how you handle failures. You could always have an aerospace-grade QA process... but for a consumer web product that's almost always going to vastly delay your progress. If you have the ability to fix issues quickly then it's sometimes better to "move fast and break things". If you're working on autonomous vehicle software then this is a terrible idea (I'm looking at you Uber ATG).