I still remember the day our CTO walked into the engineering huddle and declared, “We’re moving everything to Kubernetes.” It was 2017, and like many teams caught in the container hype cycle, we dove in headfirst with more excitement than wisdom. What followed was a sobering 18-month journey of steep learning curves, 3 AM incident calls, and the gradual realization that we’d traded one set of operational headaches for another.

Fast forward to today, I’m deploying containerized applications without managing a single node. No upgrades. No capacity planning. No security patching. Yet, I still have the full power of Kubernetes’ declarative API at my fingertips. The serverless Kubernetes revolution is here, and it’s changing everything about how we approach container orchestration.