Fear not, the article has you covered (emphasis mine):
> Obviously if you’re FAANG-level or some established site where that 0.1% downtime translates into vast quantities of cash disappearing from your books, this stuff is all great.
This is not a FANG thing. Not being able to deliver a product or service is a business thing. This happens in small mom&pop shops as well as FANGs. This is a free market economy thing. If your business is not open them you get expenses but zero income. How is this hard to understand?
The software world involves way more than your small side project that you managed to cobble together during a weekend. Things do need to work reliably and predictably. Otherwise not only do you not get your lunch but also your competitors eat it from under your nose. Why is this even being discussed, in HN of all places?
Because having to keep a site live doesn't automatically mean I need all the complexity of K8s? I can deploy my server on two VMs in two AZs with Ansible and run them with systemd to restart on crash. Just because I don't immediately jump to K8s doesn't mean I don't know how to run a site.
> Obviously if you’re FAANG-level or some established site where that 0.1% downtime translates into vast quantities of cash disappearing from your books, this stuff is all great.