This is an excellent, well explained article. For most of the small companies I work for, database hosting is treated like a utility so we end up using RDS etc.

This is an excellent, well explained article. For most of the small companies I work for, database hosting is treated like a utility so we end up using RDS etc. The benefit of arranging your own k8 database setup is outweighed by the cost of maintenance. On one hand it's nice that it's one less thing to worry about, on the other I miss this kind of deep nerdery.