You might not need Kubernetes
Some day I would like a powwow with all you hackers about whether 99% of apps need more than a $5 droplet from Digital Ocean, set up the old-fashioned way, LAMP --- though feel free to switch out the letters: BSD instead of Linux, Nginx instead of Apache, PostgreSQL instead of MySQL, Ruby or Python instead of PHP.<p>I manage dozens of apps for thousands of users. The apps are all on one server, its load average around 0.1. I know, it isn&#x27;t web-scale. Okay, how about Hacker News? It runs on one server. Moore&#x27;s Law rendered most of our impressive workloads to a golf ball in a football field, years ago.<p>I understand these companies needing many, many servers: Google, Facebook, Uber, and medium companies like Basecamp. But to the rest I want to ask, what&#x27;s the load average on the Kubernetes cluster for your Web 2.0 app? If it&#x27;s high, is it because you are getting 100,000 requests per second, or is it the frameworks you cargo-culted in? What would the load average be if you just wrote a LAMP app?<p>EDIT: Okay, a floating IP and two servers.