The amount of people believing made up tweets like this below is concerning
For some reason no one stopped to check what “our startup” means on a consulting account
In the next tweet it’s “We were paying $15K/month for an RDS Postgres instance.”
Blue check != it’s real
Kubernetes migration almost killed our startup.
Where we were:
- 8 EC2 instances
- Ansible for deploys
- Boring but working
- $1200/month AWS bill
Why we migrated:
- New investor wanted 'cloud-native'
- Engineers wanted K8s experience
- Competitors were using it
- Seemed like the future
6 months later:
- 3 engineers spending full-time on K8s
- AWS bill at $4500/month
- Deploys took longer than before
- More outages, not fewer
- Product development stalled
We rolled back:
- Moved to ECS Fargate
- 2 week migration
- Back to $1800/month
- Engineers back on features
K8s is amazing for scale. We weren't at scale. Technology should solve problems you actually have.
I had the same issue with this account.
I thought he is actually sharing something and commented once.
Now he is in my feed everyday with same garbage madeup stories
Nov 7, 2025 · 11:50 AM UTC