Cloud native: the cattle the pets and the germs
summary
Argues that cloud native has moved from “pets” and “cattle” to an ecology of ephemeral cells: containers, Kubernetes, serverless (Lambda) and cloud databases (DynamoDB) run across public HTTP and hostile networks. Gives concrete figures: Twix deploys every 30 minutes, Amazon every 7 seconds, and notes 200 active experiments → ~40,000 production variants. Shows toolchain realities (auto scaling groups, service discovery, immutable infra) and concludes monitoring becomes a big‑data, statistical problem and staging is largely useless.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 7:21We lost control of the environment
- 15:51You don't have a production environment
- 17:33You have production environments
- 23:23Biological systems
- 26:57New challenges
- 28:55Computer immunology, 1998
