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		lonelappde on May 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is Kubernetes getting so popular? Why do I need 30? 1 rack in a datacenter is plenty for a database backed web app with a million users.

cortesoft on May 30, 2020 [–]

That is going to be killer latency for people in other parts of the world.

In my case, I work for a CDN, so we need to have data centers all around the world.

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