Welcomes polyglot cloud

The willingness to welcome polyglot cloud is a true measure of cloud-native maturity. Let's start with something more familiar: polyglot programming. Polyglot programming is the idea that on a component-by-component basis, we will choose to use the programming language that best suits the requirements of the specific component. An organization, team, or individual will typically have a favorite or go-to language but will use another language for a specific component when it is more appropriate.

As an example, JavaScript is now my go-to language. When I started my cloud journey, Java was my go-to language. I had been using Java since it was born in the mid-1990s and it was a great full-stack option in my pre-cloud days. ...

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