It's totally fine to not to use k8s. Personally, I think I have made several good decisions in my career to use/avoid k8s in different scenarios.

But if someone wrote a blog to brag about not using k8s, they can't stop people from wanting to compare their work against k8s. If there's any arrogance in the air, it feels stronger on the other side.

Please don't reply to a bad comment with another bad comment on HN. That's how we get flamewars, which is exactly what we want to avoid. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I am not sure the argument "muhh k8s is too complex, I will roll docker instead" flies well in the age of cloud managed k8s offerings

EKS is literally one click of a button away and you dont need to handroll this.

even if you dont know AWS console nor terraform, claude code with aws mcp can do that for you

Are you implying that leaning on standard tooling is more arrogant than "hold my beer"?