I read TFA as mostly complaining about the conceptual and operational complexity of running your code on k8s, not so much about operating a cluster itself. Lot

I read TFA as mostly complaining about the conceptual and operational complexity of running your code on k8s, not so much about operating a cluster itself. Lots of ink spilled on irrelevant concepts that most users don't need to know or care about like EndpointSlices. And, arguing against microservices is a reasonable position -- but IF you have made that architectural choice, then Docker-for-Mac + the built-in kubernetes cluster is the most developer-friendly way of working on microservices that I am aware of. So a bit of a non-sequiteur there.