Why this is getting blamed on JavaScript / Node.js is beyond me. Microservices were/are all the rage in Java/Scala land, and seemed to initially be pushed by (Dev)Ops engineers' desire to roll their own Kubernetes cluster (or whatever came before). I've been on multiple such project and I always loathed the additional complexity (especially combined with actors/event sourcing and Cassandra). Node.js was limited to some frontend tooling that only ran locally or in CI.
I think the author meant "Web developers", not specifically "JavaScript developers". There's just a very big overlap between the two.
So, Java and friends fits perfectly into this pattern. DevOps (saying as someone who used to be "Ops" w/o the "Dev") is also largely a Web phenomena. If you were exposed to Web development some time in your career, but then moved away from that, Kubernetes will definitely trigger PTSD in you. It's Web developers writing system software, and they don't really know how to do that.
