I applaud your experience, but honestly I agree with parent: knowledge acquisition for a side project may not be the best use of their time, especially if it si

I applaud your experience, but honestly I agree with parent: knowledge acquisition for a side project may not be the best use of their time, especially if it significantly impedes actually launching/finishing a first iteration. It's a similar situation for most apps/services/startup ideas: you don't necessarily need a planet scale solution in the beginning. Containers are great and solve lots of problems, but they are not a panacea and come with their own drawbacks. Anecdotally, I personally wanted to make a small local 3 node Kubernetes cluster at one time on my beefy hypervisor. By the time I learned the ins and outs of Kubernetes networking, I lost momentum. It also didn't end up giving me what I wanted out of it. Educational, sure, but in the end not useful to me.