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    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...

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    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...

    Cloud Native, Going Green, and the Power of Civil Resistance

    What’s the best way to change the world? Two researchers published a book in 2011 on the history of conflict that took up that very question. Their book Why Civil Resistance Works pointed out a surpri...

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    WTF Is WTF Is Cloud Native?

    What the fuck is Cloud Native? As a technologist, it could be the most important question you’ve asked yourself this decade.

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    Zooming Out: Strategies for Better Collaboration with Fewer Video Meetings

    Who would you assume ‘performs better’? Someone who’s available to address your issues immediately, or someone who occasionally goes offline and is often unavailable to address your immediate needs?

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    The Top Reasons Why You Should Give eBPF a Chance

    With this blog post I want to show you why eBPF is a big deal and why it piqued my interest some time ago. I won't go into details on how eBPF works here, but rather highlight the reasons why there is...

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    Container Solutions Talks Next-Gen Cloud on a New Stack Podcast

    More companies are taking environmental sustainability into account when they choose cloud providers, said Ian Crosby, Container Solutions’ Chief Technology Officer, on the latest episode of The Maker...