In 10 years Google will be a fading memory (one hopes). Once they die, K8s dies. K8s' fatal flaw was being too big for its britches. As individual pieces, none

In 10 years Google will be a fading memory (one hopes). Once they die, K8s dies. K8s' fatal flaw was being too big for its britches. As individual pieces, none of the K8s services are useful. Nobody downloads and installs just one of the components for use in some other project. And for that reason, it will always be just one big fat ugly monolith of fake microservices. The architecture that will come afterward will be the model we've had since the 90s: single components that do their job well, that can be combined with other components in a hobbled-together way, that together make up a robust system. The same thing that lets you build an architecture out of PostgreSQL, Ory, Nginx, Flask, React, Prometheus, ELK, etc: they're all separate, but they can all be combined the way you want, when you want. And they're all optional.