Comment by Nextgrid

> I don't want to have to take a graduate-level course on the CAP theorem

It would be a blessing if people actually did that, because then they'd avoid useless distributed systems.

> using gRPC to poorly and unnecessarily communicate

At least you've had the blessing of it being gRPC and not having to manually write JSON de/serializers by hand.

> Kubernetes isn't doing anything your operating system can't do

Kubernetes is good if you need to orchestrate across multiple machines. This of course requires an actual need for multiple machines. If you're doing so with underpowered cloud VMs (of which you waste a third of the RAM on K8s itself), just get a single bigger VM and skip K8s.