{
  "id": 10181917,
  "title": "It’s Not a Technology Shortage. It’s a Boundary Shortage",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/27/its-not-a-technology-shortage-its-a-boundary-shortage",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-27T08:58:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/mhmxs/its-not-a-technology-shortage-its-a-boundary-shortage-1mcg"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "For years, individuals have approached me asking about the problems HariKube aims to solve, its objectives, future direction, or how it compares to X. These discussions typically revolved around Kubernetes hyperscaling, application modernization, horizontal scalability, or the idea of making infrastructure more affordable. However, I am tired of repeating the same discussions. The core issue my team and I seek to address is not a technology shortage, but rather a boundary shortage.\n\nThe primary challenge in IT today is not the lack of technology, but rather the confusion surrounding responsibility boundaries. Developers manage infrastructure, operators handle application-specific logic, and platform teams build internal products while also managing support tickets. Everyone possesses a broad knowledge base, each person contributes to various tasks, and simultaneously, we continue to resolve the same issues repeatedly, individually within each team. This phenomenon is often referred to as DevOps, but in many instances, it merely blurs responsibility lines and encourages better collaboration.\n\nMy main objective is not to transform every developer into an operator, nor to expect operators to comprehend the internal workings of every application. Instead, I aspire for developers to focus on development, operators to concentrate on operation, and establish a clear, machine-verifiable contract between them. HariKube offers this contract.\n\nThe developer declares their requirements, the operator defines under what conditions the desired outcomes can be achieved, and the platform validates, records, and consistently implements the intent through a common declarative model. HariKube is not an additional abstraction on top of Kubernetes. It utilizes Kubernetes' operational model for problems that traditionally required custom services, databases, queues, and manually integrated workflows. The promise is not that a general-purpose system will outperform finely tuned, domain-specific code on every request. Rather, it assures that you won't need to recreate the same components for each new business process: state management, validation, authorization, consistency models, auditability, and event propagation. This approach is not solely about developer convenience; it is about organizational scalability. When the contract remains stable, both parties can evolve independently. The developer no longer needs to become an operator, the operator doesn't require to become a co-author of every application, and the platform does not infringe upon their autonomy - it rather demonstrates where control should reside.\n\nThis is the reason HariKube is being developed. I aim to serve as everyone's DevOps person, not by doing everyone's work for them, but by constructing a common system that eliminates the repetitive DevOps tasks teams continually undertake. This system will not merely add another tool to an already crowded toolbox, but will establish order within it: clear responsibilities, enforceable contracts, and infrastructure that separates roles instead of blurring them.\n\nOur common language should not make everything identical, but instead coordinate diverse components. A transaction in this system signifies that the parties' shared intent has been validated and durably recorded. From this point forward, the system aligns itself around this single recorded point: execution, state, and accountability. Platform primitives, not local solutions, are essential. We require foundational building blocks from which everything else can be constructed. Once we have a common language and these primitives, the specifics of whether we are discussing AI workloads, serverless functions, operators, or legacy services become irrelevant, as they are all built on the same foundations and designed to work together from the outset. Today, each system operates in its own language, and we continue to build translators between them. It is time to restore our services to their common language. HariKube is not the final solution nor the first step on this journey, but a significant stride in the great architectural cycle, and it embraces the monolith data + CNCF nano-services design.",
  "summary": "In the past, many people asked me what problem we solve, what we want to achieve, where HariKube is heading, or why it is better than X. These conversations almost always drifted toward Kubernetes hyperscaling, application modernization, horizontal scalability, or simply making infrastructure cheaper to use. But I’m tired of having the same conversations over and over again. I feel it’s time to…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}