The enterprise equivalent of COBOL today is Java and to a much lesser extent C#. Those were both championed by large corporations - Sun and Microsoft.

The move to VMs at first and then to the cloud were also marketed by existing companies with huge budgets where people who made decisions had the “No one ever got fired for choosing $LargeWellknownCompany that is in the upper right corner of Gartner’s Magic Square”.

I love Docker. I think everyone going to EKS before they need to is dumb. There are dozens of services out there that let you give it a Docker container and just run it.

And I think that spending energy avoiding “cloud lock-in” is dumb. Choose your infrastructure and build. Migrations are going to be a pain at any decent scale anyway and you are optimizing for the wrong thing if you are worried about lock in.

As an individual especially in today’s market, it’s foolish (not referring to you - any developer or adjacent) not to always be thinking of what keeps you the most employable if the rug gets pulled from under you.

As a decision maker who is held accountable for architecture and when things go wrong they look at or when the next person has to come along to maintain it, they are going to look at me like I am crazy if I choose a non industry standard solution just because I was too lazy to choose the industry standard.

Again I don’t mean that you are being “lazy”. That’s how people think.

But if I were hiring someone - and I’m often interviewing people for cloudy/devOps type roles. Why would I hire someone with experience with a Docker orchestration framework I never heard of over someone who knew K8s?

And the final question you should ask yourself is why are you really doing this?

Is it to scratch an itch out of passion and it’s something that you feel the world should have? If so in all sincerity, I wish you luck on your endeavor. You might get lucky like Bun just did. I had effusive praise for them doing something out of passion instead of as VC bait.

Are you doing it for financial gain? If so, you have to come up with a strategy to overcome resistance from people like Ive outlined.