Why is Kubernetes getting so popular?
I honestly couldn&#x27;t tell you.<p>What I can tell you, is that the unbelievable bloat in the complexity of our systems is going to bite us in the ass. I&#x27;ll never forget when I joined a hip fintech company, and the director of eng told us in orientation that we should think of their cloud of services as a thousand points of light, out in space. I knew my days were numbered at exactly that moment. This company had 200k unique users, and they were spending a million dollars a month on CRUD. Granted, banking is its own beast, but I had just come from a company of 10 people serving 3 million <i>daily</i> users 10k requests a second for  images drawn on the fly by GPUs. Our hosting costs never exceeded 20k per month, and the vast majority of that was cloudflare.<p>Deploying meant compiling a static binary and copying it to the 4-6 hardware servers we ran in a couple racks, one rack on each side of the continent. We were drunk by 11am  most of the time.<p>Today, it&#x27;s apparently much more impressive if you need to have a team of earnest, bright-eyed Stanford grads constantly tweaking and fiddling with 100 knobs in order to keep systems running. Enter kubernetes.