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You need about three engineers to support a ~$500mm/year ecommerce site using managed kubernetes. Really you can do it with two, you need one that understands i
by hadlock 5y ago
You need about three engineers to support a ~$500mm/year ecommerce site using managed kubernetes. Really you can do it with two, you need one that understands it, and another guy/apprentice in training who sort of understands it, in case the first guy gets hit by a bus. The third guy is just so the first and second guy don't trade off on-call and get burnt out immediately.
Ten or fifteen years ago you'd be looking at a team of at least five, probably 7-10 engineers, mininmum, to design, maintain and keep up to date a similar system. The company gets a tremendous value out of their three engineers at $150-250k/year, ea
- hodgesrm 5y agoManaged Kubernetes has really changed the economics of deployment. Kubernetes administration sucks about as much as vSphere or Open Stack. Which is to say: a lot. You can debate the details but you are talking highly trained people and potentially several of them to run a large installation. Plus your management chain now needs to worry about HA, security, upgrade being covered. Managed Kubernetes services like EKS replace that with half a person or less + about $100/month overhead per cluster.