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[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 days ago

And a developer with admin rights will never admit that they'll quit on short notice in a few months, leaving hard to support snowflakes, each based on the latest cool fad at the time of writing.

Both k8s and aws native services can be chaotic and snowflaky... An organization should be working to standardize the tech stack and deployment tooling across teams as much as possible.

K8S is an opportunity to standardize, but the potential is often not realised. Platform Engineering is now the latest kid on the block, trying to address the next layer of challenges. We'll see how this looks in a few years...