respawn
A Kubernetes operator for game servers. Declare a Minecraft or Factorio server as a CRD and get scheduling, persistence, backups, and scale-to-zero.
software planned Effort L
Writing a real operator (CRDs, a reconcile loop, finalizers, status conditions) is the platform-engineering credential I most want to have in public. That it also means my Minecraft server scales to zero when nobody's online is a bonus, and a considerably better hook than "I wrote a controller".