> Today’s developers are expected to develop resilient and scalable distributed systems. The author start from within a silo. Many of today's developers don't

> Today’s developers are expected to develop resilient and scalable distributed systems. The author start from within a silo. Many of today's developers don't have these expectations. Operators are non-trivial software. Some of them are over 50k lines of code and still not near complete. It takes a fair amount of work to develop and test them. It is sometimes implicitly shared that you MUST use an operator. There are times they are useful. There are many other times you don't need them. I'm still amazed at how often I can get away with a Kubernetes Deployment or StatefulSet and be just fine.