The Kubernetes Mirage: When Scaling Up Becomes Your Greatest Downfall
(medium.com)
It’s 3 AM when your phone erupts. Production is down. Your “fault-tolerant” Kubernetes cluster has become a digital Ouija board — pods vanishing, nodes collapsing, logs whispering nonsense. By sunrise, you’ve burned a lifetime supply of cloud credits and aged three years. Welcome to the Kubernetes paradox: the tool meant to save you now owns you.
It’s 3 AM when your phone erupts. Production is down. Your “fault-tolerant” Kubernetes cluster has become a digital Ouija board — pods vanishing, nodes collapsing, logs whispering nonsense. By sunrise, you’ve burned a lifetime supply of cloud credits and aged three years. Welcome to the Kubernetes paradox: the tool meant to save you now owns you.