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