by Maegan Jong and Dominik Tornow Kubernetes is a Container Orchestration Engine designed to host containerized applications on a set of nodes, commonly referred to as a cluster. Using a systems modeling approach, this series aims to advance the understanding of Kubernetes and its underlying concepts. For this blog post…

by Maegan Jong and Dominik Tornow Infrastructure as a Service, Infrastructure as Code, or recently Infrastructure as Data — certainly infrastructure comes in many forms, shapes, and sizes. Yet, even though these terms sound deceptively similar and deceptively simple, they denote fundamentally different and intricate concepts. After Infrastructure as a…

Ever since the term “Microservice” made its debut in 2005, its usage has grown in popularity. However, even in 2020, a concise and accurate definition is not readily available. This article provides a definition for technical and non-technical stakeholders. This blog post provides concise and accurate definitions of the concepts…

Ever since the term “serverless” made its debut in 2012, its usage has grown in popularity. However, a concise and accurate definition is not readily available. This article provides a definition for technical and non-technical stakeholders. This blog post provides a concise and accurate definition of the concept serverless. Model of computation The…

By Andrew Chen and Dominik Tornow

Ever since the term “cloud native” made its debut in 2010, its usage has grown in popularity. However, a concise and accurate definition is not readily available. This article provides a set of related definitions for technical and non-technical stakeholders. This blog post provides a concise and accurate definition of…

By Andrew Chen and Dominik Tornow

By Andrew Chen and Dominik Tornow Kubernetes is a Container Orchestration Engine designed to host containerized applications on a set of nodes, commonly referred to as a cluster. Using a systems modeling approach this series aims to advance the understanding of Kubernetes and its underlying concepts. For this blog post…

By Andrew Chen and Dominik Tornow Kubernetes is a Container Orchestration Engine designed to host containerized applications on a set of nodes, commonly referred to as a cluster. Using a systems modeling approach, this series aims to advance the understanding of Kubernetes and its underlying concepts. This blog post uses…