Comment by amzans

Hey I'm the author of the post.

We ran Panelbear for about a year before merging it into Cronitor's codebase.

Cronitor is also a Django monolith but on EC2 and was already humming along nicely for several years through frequent traffic spikes.

We had no reliability issues with K8s, but came down to: as a small team we decided to have less moving parts.

The new setup is not too different from what I describe here: https://anthonynsimon.com/blog/kamal-deploy/