This sort of article is spot on for lots of standard CRUD apps, but doesn't mention the fact that there are plenty of cases where k8s (or similar) really would

This sort of article is spot on for lots of standard CRUD apps, but doesn't mention the fact that there are plenty of cases where k8s (or similar) really would be a big benefit. If your application requires a lot of scaling up and down to be viable for instance, k8s can be a good fit. I think a better article title would probably be "you shouldn't default to using kubernetes as a startup".