It‘s a truth universally acknowledged that managing fewer things is easier than managing lots of things. Yet, why do so many of us in tech exalt “scale” as a paramount virtue? The cloud-native arena is a particularly interesting focal point for this exact debate. The cloud-native community is disrupting many long-held technological conventions, making us rethink how we should build the systems of tomorrow. However, many of the tools, platforms, and practices coming out of that community have been extracted from the largest technology companies on Earth. These companies dominate the cloud-native computing landscape: its technology, its evangelism, and its…

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