There is obviously some point, somewhere between ‘just running a website out of my spare bedroom’ and ‘Facebook’, where some of this infrastructure does become necessary.
It is very important that you realize when you pass one of those points.
It doesn’t help to just tell people ‘you don’t need kubernetes, you are not Facebook’
There are a lot of companies that aren’t Facebook, but they still have multimillion dollar revenue streams riding on service availability, with compliance obligations and employee paychecks on the line, and which need to be able to reliably release changes to production code every day, written by multiple development teams in different time zones, so... yeah, maybe they are a bit beyond just scp’ing their files up to a single Linux VPS.
It is very important that you realize when you pass one of those points.
It doesn’t help to just tell people ‘you don’t need kubernetes, you are not Facebook’
There are a lot of companies that aren’t Facebook, but they still have multimillion dollar revenue streams riding on service availability, with compliance obligations and employee paychecks on the line, and which need to be able to reliably release changes to production code every day, written by multiple development teams in different time zones, so... yeah, maybe they are a bit beyond just scp’ing their files up to a single Linux VPS.