A devops coworker found my blog and asked me how I host it, is it Kubernetes. I told him it's a dedicated server and he seemed amazed. And this was just a blog. It's real
replyDoes your coworker run a blog on k8s?
replyNone of them self host anything at all. It's like that skill was totally skipped. But they advise and consult on infra
replyWell, by the time you are hiring a dedicated infra role, you should be past the single VPS stage.
replyHard disagree. You can have incredibly complex infrastructure (whose maintenance necessitates an FTE) running on a single VPS. Some of the smartest infra consultants I've met have point blank said "you shouldn't implement a fleet of cloud microservices for that, I can implement this whole stack on a single machine if I'm efficient about the architecture and underlying algorithms."
replyMy point is that none of these coworkers have ever been at that stage. He was surprised about me hosting something because he seems to think hosting is expensive and for companies. Straight in at the top end of k8s and microservices
replyBecause I think precisely the indie hacker community is not as keen to default to the big-tech stacks, because those are neither indie, nor hack-y :)
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