
Dan Southwood-Wells
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Dan Southwood-Wells
@c4talyst
I work at @EskomSePush ⚡


In 2011, South Africa's 🇿🇦 fast-food chain 'Chicken Licken' was recognized as the largest non-American-owned fried chicken franchise in the world.





Kubernetes killed more startups than server crashes ever did You don't have Spotify's scale. You have 8 engineers and a single server that's running fine But you watched a KubeCon talk, and now you've got 23 YAML files, a Helm chart nobody fully understands, and engineers debugging pod evictions instead of buildinga product Your "cloud-native infrastructure" is just a cloud bill with extra complexity A $50/month VM can handle millions of requests. Your startup will run out of money debugging networking issues long before you need horizontal pod autoscaling The best infrastructure decision is often the simplest one




















