Can Cloud-Native Computing Eliminate Technical Debt?

Introduction

Cloud-native computing is a new paradigm for enterprise IT that touches all aspects of modern technology, from application development to software architecture to the underlying infrastructure that keeps everything moving.

Cloud-native has thus given us an opportunity to clean house. We can take our newfangled Kubernetes-empowered broom and sweep out all the dusty corners of our existing tech. It would only be logical, therefore, to presume that cloud-native will finally put an end to all that technical debt that has been accruing lo these many years.