Beyond Kubernetes: 5 Simpler Alternatives for Small Teams
Kubernetes is extraordinary engineering and wildly overbuilt for most teams under fifteen engineers. Five things that are genuinely production-grade and stop one rung earlier.
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Kubernetes is extraordinary engineering and wildly overbuilt for most teams under fifteen engineers. Five things that are genuinely production-grade and stop one rung earlier.
These three get compared as if they do the same job. They don't, and the architecture diagram explains every difference in price, latency, and who can read your traffic.
Playwright has been on 1.x since 2020. Cypress has shipped eight majors since 2021, and each one stopped getting releases within weeks of the next. The paid meter is not what most comparisons say it is either.
Picking a Gemma 4 size for the hardware you already own, getting it running under Ollama, and wiring native function calling into a small agent loop.
The BUSL has an expiry date printed in it, four years per version, and IBM is the licensor. The split that actually changes what you can build is which registry your source address resolves to, and 3,198 provider names sit on only one side of it.