The rise of Kubernetes, cloud-native, and microservices spawned major changes in architectures and abstractions that developers use to create modern applications. In this multi-part series, I talk with some of the leading experts across various layers of the stack — from networking infrastructure to application infrastructure and middleware to telemetry data and modern observability concerns--to understand emergent platform engineering patterns that are affecting developer workflow around cloud-native. The next participant in our series is Jonas Bonér, CEO and co-founder of Lightbend and the creator of the Akka event-driven middleware project for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications.
Q: We are nearly a decade into containers and Kubernetes (K8s was first released in Sept 2014). How would you characterize how things look different today than ten years ago, especially in terms of the old world of systems engineers and network administrators and a big dividing line between these operations concerns and the developers on the other side of the wall? What do you think are the big changes that DevOps and the evolution of platform engineering and site reliability engineering have ushered in?