Joe Armstrong spoke of "the mess we're in" and I think he captured it well. He was referring to the symptom in general, where-as this essay is about one of the

Joe Armstrong spoke of "the mess we're in" and I think he captured it well. He was referring to the symptom in general, where-as this essay is about one of the root causes. Having recently learned bits & pieces of Kubernetes, I can see the author's perspective as it's one I held for some time. Kubernetes is useful and makes many things easier. In exchange you give up finer-grained control and you have to work with an abstraction. Such is the nature of all abstractions.