From my experience, even though we deploy with Kubernetes, they complement eachother just fine. When writing code, I can easily partition things into processes,

From my experience, even though we deploy with Kubernetes, they complement eachother just fine. When writing code, I can easily partition things into processes, which makes total sense from pure application development viewpoint. Whether Kubernetes does its own thing on top or not, does not matter to me. I wouldn't spawn and kill thousands of processes with Kubernetes. That's a bit heavy-handed. A couple of Erlang pods that do the same? Sure.