> Consider the source of the project for your answer (mainly, but not entirely, bored engineers who are too arrogant to think anybody has solved their problem b

> Consider the source of the project for your answer (mainly, but not entirely, bored engineers who are too arrogant to think anybody has solved their problem before). This seems both wrong and contrary to the article (which mentions that k8s is a descendant of Borg, and in fact if memory serves many of the k8s authors were borg maintainers). So they clearly were aware that people had solved their problem before, because they maintained the tool that had solved the problem for close to a decade.