Well in my eyes equating microservices with Kubernetes is a problem in of itself. I actually wrote about Docker Swarm as a simpler and more usable alternative t

Well in my eyes equating microservices with Kubernetes is a problem in of itself. I actually wrote about Docker Swarm as a simpler and more usable alternative to it (for smaller/simpler deployments), though some other folks also enjoy Hashicorp Nomad which is also nice (another article on my blog, won't link here not to be spammy myself). If you evaluate your circumstances and find that microservices could be good for you, then there are certainly options to do them more easily. In my eyes some of the ideas that have popped up, like 12 Factor Apps https://12factor.net/ https://12factor.net/ can be immensely useful for both microservices and even monoliths. So i guess it's all very situational and a lot of the effort is finding out what's suitable for your particular circumstances. For example, i made the page over at https://apturicovid.lv/#en https://apturicovid.lv/#en When the app was released and the page was getting hundreds of thousands of views due to all of the news coverage, scaling out to something like 8 instances was a really simple and adequate fix to not break under the load.