The escape hatch is resisting optional complexity until your pain demands it. Start with a clean monolith, one cluster, no mesh, and boring defaults. Add microservices or a mesh only when scale or ownership forces the move. Complexity isn’t evil — adding it too early is.
We started with:
“Let’s make software simple.”
Then added:
→ Microservices
→ Kubernetes
→ Service mesh
→ API gateways
Now we spend 3 days debugging a YAML file.
If Jenkins says “SUCCESS” on the first try, celebrate.
If ArgoCD syncs cleanly on the first try… yeah, that’s definitely a hallucination. Check your cluster before you buy the lottery ticket. 😅
OpenAI Execs allude to the company being too big to fail.
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar stated that the company wants the U.S. government to provide a backstop or guarantee for AI financing.
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