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I don't understand why this blog post has invited non-sequiturs about Kubernetes. Autoscaling is only one small part of what Kubernetes provides.

• tgv 5y ago
  Well, I for one have never heard anyone "evangelize" other use cases. Can you name some advantages, or point me to an article? Because I did hear about the set up difficulties...
  • toto444 5y ago
    I thought it was all about easing container deployment and orchestration (not that I know anything about it).
  • sodality2 5y ago
    resilience to dropping servers is one. (sort of hand-in-hand with auto-scaling, both imply dynamic sizing of server pool)
• wongarsu 5y ago
  I can only guess that small sites frequently experiencing the hug of death when they get #1 on HN leads some people to believe you need some insane setup, when in reality it's more like this case: it works just fine on a smallish setup as soon as you remember to enable caching.