My first, original production kubernetes cluster existed precisely because it lowered our costs - ridiculously so. Because all that above? It comes with a syst

My first, original production kubernetes cluster existed precisely because it lowered our costs - ridiculously so. Because all that above? It comes with a system that will actively help you binpack your workloads as much as possible into the compute you give it. Your usual "throw separate instances"? Can get expensive quick, especially if you're not aggressively modifying instance sizes. As for "lol just use Heroku"... I call that kind of company "bankrupt", but that's probably because the difference between cost of infrastructure and cost of engineer time is wildly different in my area to SV.