WTF Are Containers?

    For a start, containers are a way to package up applications with all their dependencies. Now watch as some Cloud Native engineers from Container Solutions unpack that concept more fully. Bonus: a coc...

    WTF Are Microservices?

    They can prevent your whole system from going down when something goes wrong. But there's a lot more to them than that. In this video, some Cloud Native engineers from Container Solutions offer their ...

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    3 Questions: Holly Cummins and David McKay Tackle 'WTF Is Cloud Native?'

    WTF is Cloud Native? Even the experts don't completely agree. In our continuing series 3 Questions, Cloud Native influencers tackle a trio of queries about this mysterious movement. This month's answe...

    8 min read

    Getting Started With Cloud Native Tech

    As you complete each project as a consultant, you start noticing patterns. No matter what the differences are between the various architectures, tech stacks and teams, you find yourself following the ...

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    Why You Need Cloud Native Now

    Every once in a while, a global development initiates a chain reaction of disruptive events across many industries and markets. Such disruptions can be caused by people, organisations, the market, luc...

    8 min read

    The No-Jargon Zone: How to Talk About Cloud Native Tech

    Have you ever felt that collective sigh wash over a room during a system demo, when a colleague goes into excruciatingly unnecessary detail describing how a feature or fix was implemented? Have you ev...

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    WTF Is Cloud Native Technology?

    Cloud Native is so big, sprawling, new, and complex, even our own Cloud Native engineers grapple with the best ways to define it, its problems, and its perks.

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    3 for 3: a Trio of Cloud Native Influencers Answer WTF's Big Questions

    WTF is Cloud Native? Even the experts don't completely agree. To help us unpack this sprawling topic, WTF is launching a series in which we ask some of the industry's thought leaders three key questio...

    17 min read

    Cloud Native and Jobless Recoveries: What's Our Role?

    We’re in a new, global recession caused by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. During recessions, shareholders place pressure on companies to learn to do ‘more with less’, often by supplementing thei...