Comment by lostbean

Yes, Kardinal is designed to make development environments more efficient and less wasteful compared to your current setup, where each dev instance is a single pod with everything in it. In Kardinal, we calculate reusability at the application level. You only deploy the services you're actively working on, which means you won't need to spin up unnecessary components, like a separate database, if it's not needed for your dev/test case. This will improve both cost and speed.