ServiceFabric: a distributed platform for building microservices in the cloud
Lots of developers today just assume that microservices = containers, and if you&#x27;re already in containers, you must need Kubernetes, but, really, Service Fabric is years ahead of Kubernetes in lots of ways. If I were starting a major distributed systems project today that required serious uptime and scalability, I&#x27;d start on Service Fabric.<p>And, yes, I know... whatever feature I could name from Service Fabric has some sort of open-source thing for Kubernetes from someone that probably&#x2F;almost&#x2F;kind-of&#x2F;sort-of&#x2F;some-assembly-required does the same thing as Service Fabric. Or I could just use Service Fabric, and not play the Kubernetes equivalent of &quot;what&#x27;s in your node_modules directory?&quot;<p>Microsoft has an existential-level bet on Service Fabric. It&#x27;s 1) not going anywhere, 2) only getting better, 3) is already a better container orchestrator than Kubernetes, if that&#x27;s all you want to use it for.