Decision tree
Kubernetes, managed PaaS, or FaaS.
Compute-platform choice is dominated by operational economics, not technology preference. The right answer at 5 services is wrong at 50. This tree walks service-count, traffic shape, platform-team funding, and multi-cluster needs.
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- How many services / workloads will run on this platform in 12 months?
- Is your traffic spiky or steady-state?
- Do you have a dedicated platform team (3+ engineers)?
- Are you running multi-region, multi-cloud, or heavily heterogeneous workloads?
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