These are the best statements I heard (or were shown on slides but not necessary verbalised) during the Cloud Native 2018 conference held between Wednesday, 26th and Friday, 28th September at CodeNode, London.

In the process of configuring a StatefulSet for Memcached, I’ve discovered that my biggest hurdle had to do with my inability to grasp the exact order of events that take place in a Pod’s life cycle.

Every application proposal trying to win the heart of a Fortune 500 company today not only needs to claim to be Agile—oh, sorry, SAFe—but also based on a microservices architecture. After high-profile microservices disasters like Dell’s, we understand that a myopic microservices approach may not end up well. What if we could have all the benefits of a microservices architecture but none of the drawbacks?

Why, sometimes, you should just stick to boxes.

A toxic combination.