In a 72-hour sustained load test simulating a Black Friday traffic spike, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) auto-scaled 18% faster than Crossplane 1.15 on average, but Crossplane cut infrastructure costs by 22% for idle workloads. We tested both with 12,000 requests per second, 3-node initial clusters, and production-grade observability—here’s every number, every line of code, and the unvarnished truth. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury (276 points) Show HN: Apple's Sharp Running in the Browser via ONNX Runtime Web (26 points) This Month in Ladybird – April 2026 (370 points) Dav2d (505 points) Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS (332 points) Key Insights AKS 1.29.0 scaled out from 3 to 15 nodes in 38.2 seconds average under 12k req/s load, vs Crossplane 1.15’s 46.7 seconds Crossplane 1.15 reduced idle cluster costs by 22% using dynamic Azure resource claim garbage collection AKS Cluster Autoscaler 1.29.0 supports 100-node scale-out…