alt Hacker News> the database
> the backend
Many k8s clusters are quite a bit more complicated than a single database and single backend. Some have dozens or hundreds of deployments. Even if you have the horsepower to run large deployments on your system, you will have problems wiring it all up to match production.
And you can't develop one of those "deployments" without all the other ones being present?
That just seems like super-terrible engineering, but I can believe it. Gotta be "web-scale".