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Re:“Let’s use Kubernetes.” Now you have eight problems by echelon on Thursday March 05, 2020 @01:01PM (#22496145)
> Even for the highest scale app I've worked on (which was something like 20 requests per second,

Kubernetes is not for you. 5kQPS times a hundred or more services and Kubernetes fits the bill.

> And we had 100% uptime in 3 years.

Not a single request failed in that time serving at 20 QPS? I'm a little suspicious.

Regardless, if you were handling 10 or 100 times this volume to a single service, you'd want additional systems in place to assure hitless deploys.

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Re:“Let’s use Kubernetes.” Now you have eight problems by rumanator on Friday March 06, 2020 @07:52PM (#22508878)
> Not a single request failed in that time serving at 20 QPS? I'm a little suspicious.

Things that aren't monitored are also things that don't fail.

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