The Complexity Tax: Why Kubernetes Power Comes at a Hidden Operational Cost

This account illustrates how teams often overlook the operational complexity of Kubernetes when pursuing 'industry standards', discovering too late that architectural power demands significant overhead in logging, deployment orchestration, and resource management. The story underscores a critical lesson: infrastructure decisions should match your team's operational capacity and actual traffic patterns, not just architectural aspirations—and sometimes simpler solutions like ECS Fargate deliver better value at scale.