[tajd]

I feel like articles like this need to come with a diagram like this to put it in the context of relevant tradeoffs.

                       High Scale/Revenue
                              │
                              │
      Managed Services        │      Self-hosted K8s
      (Overpaying but         │       (article is
      no choice)              │       pitched here)
                              │
  ────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────
      Low capacity            │         High capacity
                              │
                              │
      Managed Services        │      Managed Services
      (Right choice -         │      (Wasting money on
      focus on product)       │       platform team)
                              │
                        Low Scale/Revenue

Or something like that. Maybe as a function of time as well but that might be harder to do in 2d.

Sure I can absolutely manage my own k8s, but there is no doubt it's easier for me to spin up postgres and ship faster on my own. At enterprise scale it's definitely a lot easier to do everything in k8s and be able to manage as many aspects as possible. I have experience of both.