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A small team's guide to running on Kubernetes
Infra February 14, 2026 ·11 min

A small team's guide to running on Kubernetes

Yes you can. No you probably shouldn't — until you should. Here is the decision tree.

When K8s pays for itself

Three signals: multi-tenant isolation requirements, polyglot service estate, regulatory blast-radius constraints. Two out of three and the operational tax is worth it. One out of three: stay on a PaaS for another six months.

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