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If you're running a distributed system...

You're running a distributed system. They aren't simple.

Especially on AWS. AWS is really a double-bladed sword. Yeah, you'll get tutorials to set up whatever distributed system pretty quickly, but your nodes aren't nearly as reliable. Your networking isn't nearly as reliable. Your costs aren't nearly as reliable and administration. Headaches go up in the long run

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This is what alot of people don't get. They think Kubernetes is a solution to everything. In reality all k8s is makes the mechanics a little easier.

But if you don't understand distributed systems, it almost makes it worse because its tempting to segment the system across dozens of microservices which all have to talk with each other and synchronize, and the whole thing becomes a buggy, slow clusterfuck.

Dozens of microservices, oh one should be so lucky. Try hundreds where the complexity of the whole system rises non-linerarly as a function of each microservice.

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