Why Kubernetes? (Ship It! #7)

This week on Ship It! Gerhard talks with Lars Wikman (independent Elixir/BEAM software consultant) why sometimes a monolith running on a single host with continuous backups and a built-in self-restore capability is everything that a small team of developers needs. That’s right, no Kubernetes or microservices. After 2 years of running changelog.com, a Phoenix monolith, on Kubernetes, what do I think? Join our discuss and find out!

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Featuring:

• Lars Wikman – Website, GitHub, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• 🎬Follow-up YouTube stream
• Post-mortem: 10 years in the vertical: Part 1
• Beam Bloggers Webring
• Litestream - Continuously stream SQLite changes to an object store
• Teaching Elixir & other videos
• Live stream - PromEx w. Alex Koutmos
• Regular Programming, conversations about software development and programming
• BEAM Radio - Stories and conversations around Elixir, Erlang and the BEAM ecosystem

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