Managing Cloud Native Data on Kubernetes

Foreword

You’re about to go on an amazing adventure into the heart of the biggest change in the technology industry. In this adventure, you’re part of a fellowship led by a brave duo who have dared the mountains, depths, and lakes of data for decades. You’ll journey with Patrick McFadin and Jeff Carpenter, along with a band of visionary practitioners, to attain the prize: the power to create the future of data.

After reading this book, you’ll be able to create your own new adventures and bring others along with you to go beyond the old world of computation, ruled by infrastructure, into the new world of cognition, ruled by autonomous experiences. It’s going to be awesome.

The book you hold is written in a time when we’ve already seen a significant change in how we imagine, understand, and operate large-scale systems. The act of writing a book about technology in the midst of all this change may itself seem quixotic, but it’s essential. It’s a moment to stop at the Last Homely House as we gather the cognitive tools, supplies, and artifacts that will help us in the journey ahead.

We need all the help we can gather because change tends to accelerate.

In a few short decades, we’ve gone from mainframes to networks to data centers to clouds. Each new era feels like a new world with new rules and new opportunities. We build ecosystems of tools to match the era; the tools enable faster progress, and we build even more of them; we grow unsatisfied despite the speed, and suddenly there ...