Comment by andrewfromx

when dealing with long lasting TCP connections, why add that extra layer of network complexity with k8s? I work for a big IoT company and we have 1.8M connections spread across 15 ec2 c8g.xlarge boxes. Not even using a NLB just round-robin DNS. Wrote our own broker with https://github.com/lesismal/nbio and use a packer .hcl file to make the AMI that each ec2 box boots. Using https://github.com/lesismal/llib/tree/master/std/crypto/tls to make nbio work with TLS.