Came to this conclusion for teams of our current size based on years of experience and experimentation (never at the expense of the business).
They are a better fit because they are much easier to manage and it's much easier to debug issues when something goes wrong. We are a small team and we hope to stay that way. But our operational responsibilities are growing significantly. The extra cognitive overhead of working with technologies like kubernetes would prevent us from scaling up our effort the way that we want to.
It's hard to answer your question in detail outside of a very long essay.
They are a better fit because they are much easier to manage and it's much easier to debug issues when something goes wrong. We are a small team and we hope to stay that way. But our operational responsibilities are growing significantly. The extra cognitive overhead of working with technologies like kubernetes would prevent us from scaling up our effort the way that we want to.
It's hard to answer your question in detail outside of a very long essay.