The fallacy of “scalability from day 1”

Imagine you are starting a new project. The team is motivated, the whiteboard has been wiped clean, and the first question in the room is: “Which microservices do we need?”

“But locally everything went green!”

We all know this pain: your pipeline is green, your tests run locally in milliseconds. You deploy to staging or production – and it works. SQLSyntaxErrorException. Or worse: data is stored incorrectly.

Kubernetes has completely changed the way we deploy software. It’s powerful, scalable and… honestly often quite overwhelming. Maybe you know the feeling: you understand the basics of pods and services, but suddenly you’re drowning in a flood of manifest files. What was manageable …