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Kubernetes Is a $6 Billion Mistake for 90% of Startups
99% of K8s clusters are overprovisioned. Average engineer cost: $158K. The YAML tax is real. Here's when K8s makes sense and what to use instead.
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99% of K8s clusters are overprovisioned. Average engineer cost: $158K. The YAML tax is real. Here's when K8s makes sense and what to use instead.
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Wasm cold starts in 40 microseconds vs 100ms for containers. 20x density advantage. 95% cost reduction. Production at Amazon, Adobe, Cloudflare.