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5 dedicated folks = a lot of dollars. $500k-1M? Do those 5 folks keep things up reliably without burning out? Honestly curious - never used k8s or Mesos* in pr

5 dedicated folks = a lot of dollars. $500k-1M? Do those 5 folks keep things up reliably without burning out? Honestly curious - never used k8s or Mesos* in production and we have a much smaller team managing a much smaller infrastructure, I am sure. edit: meant to say mesos but applies to both

gen220 6y ago
Yea 500k-1m is probably correct. But, to be fair, they’re not dedicated to only keeping the lights on, they probably spend 20% (1 eng year per year) of their collective hours fighting fires, so I don’t think burnout is too much of an issue. The remainder of their time is spent maintaining libraries and web interfaces. They’re a pretty standard “platform engineering” team. In my perspective, it doesn’t matter what technology you go with (K8s or otherwise): a responsibly-managed your platform team requires at least one team with a full on-call rotation (i.e. at least 4 engineers), depending on how wide your golden path is.