Front matter
Preface
One of my favorite quotes is
The future is already here—it’s just not very evenly distributed.
William Gibson, science fiction author
The essence of that quote is that new ideas and technology take a while to diffuse through a community and become widely adopted. A good example of the slow diffusion of ideas is the story of how I discovered microservices. It began in 2006, when, after being inspired by a talk given by an AWS evangelist, I started down a path that ultimately led to my creating the original Cloud Foundry. (The only thing in common with today’s Cloud Foundry is the name.) Cloud Foundry was a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for automating the deployment of Java applications on EC2. Like every other enterprise ...
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