Title: Serverless is eating Kubernetes—and that's a good thing
After 6 years of watching K8s engineers over-engineer themselves into a corner with YAML spaghetti, I finally moved a production workload to AWS Lambda + EventBridge + DynamoDB. You know what happened?
Nothing broke. It just worked.
No Helm charts. No Ingress hell. No cluster upgrades at 3am because of CVEs in some sidecar no one uses anymore. The whole app is now ~300 lines of infra code and it scales from 0 to 10k RPS without me touching anything.
Meanwhile, the K8s crowd is still debating which operator to use to restart a pod that keeps crashing because someone misconfigured a liveness probe. Or building internal platforms to abstract away the abstraction they just built last quarter.
Remind me again what the value-add of Kubernetes is in 2025? Other than keeping a whole cottage industry of "DevOps" engineers employed?
Serverless isn’t the future. It’s the present. And K8s? It’s the next OpenStack—just slower to die because it has better branding.
Title: Serverless is eating Kubernetes—and that's a good thing
After 6 years of watching K8s engineers over-engineer themselves into a corner with YAML spaghetti, I finally moved a production workload to AWS Lambda + EventBridge + DynamoDB. You know what happened?
Nothing broke. It just worked.
No Helm charts. No Ingress hell. No cluster upgrades at 3am because of CVEs in some sidecar no one uses anymore. The whole app is now ~300 lines of infra code and it scales from 0 to 10k RPS without me touching anything.
Meanwhile, the K8s crowd is still debating which operator to use to restart a pod that keeps crashing because someone misconfigured a liveness probe. Or building internal platforms to abstract away the abstraction they just built last quarter.
Remind me again what the value-add of Kubernetes is in 2025? Other than keeping a whole cottage industry of "DevOps" engineers employed?
Serverless isn’t the future. It’s the present. And K8s? It’s the next OpenStack—just slower to die because it has better branding.