Scaled multiple self-hosted products up to tens of millions of hits / month. Scaled several for clients up as far as the hundreds of billions of hits per month

Scaled multiple self-hosted products up to tens of millions of hits / month. Scaled several for clients up as far as the hundreds of billions of hits per month. (Yes, hundreds of billions.) Never seen a kubernetes deployment that was (A) necessary or (B) simpler than some alternative. Unless you're doing something very slow / processor-intensive, you'll probably never even need an autoscaler before you can afford to hire an expert to do it for you. You'd be surprised how far you can get with a small VM running your whole stack.