Enterprises were using (wasting) full ec2 instances long before Kubernetes came along. K8s can certainly be used to get more utilization on a small cluster -if that's something you value.
And that's just it, most companies I've seen are content to ship code and deployments that are poorly architected (for performance and efficiency) and poorly performing.
I saw the same thing when I worked in the energy space. Effort is only expended when the ROI is big enough to justify it. And sometimes not even then! It's kind of depressing.
I actually think that the silly high cost of cloud infra can help bring about an appreciation of leaner runtimes (Go, Rust, etc) especially with cheap edge computing (cloud flare workers). That's an uphill battle though.
That said, I can envision a leaner orchestration model ( leaner than k8s) that strongly encourages more efficient computing. I'm excited to see how WASM fits into this, it could be a game changing tool for simplification.
And that's just it, most companies I've seen are content to ship code and deployments that are poorly architected (for performance and efficiency) and poorly performing.
I saw the same thing when I worked in the energy space. Effort is only expended when the ROI is big enough to justify it. And sometimes not even then! It's kind of depressing.
I actually think that the silly high cost of cloud infra can help bring about an appreciation of leaner runtimes (Go, Rust, etc) especially with cheap edge computing (cloud flare workers). That's an uphill battle though.
That said, I can envision a leaner orchestration model ( leaner than k8s) that strongly encourages more efficient computing. I'm excited to see how WASM fits into this, it could be a game changing tool for simplification.