Lenny Pruss

In December 2009, Google was the target of a series of highly coordinated, sophisticated advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks in which state-sponsored hackers from China stole intellectual property and sought to access and potentially modify Google source code — the company’s crown jewels.

There’s a saying that permeates Silicon Valley that goes something like, “if you want to know how the rest of the world will run its infrastructure in 10 years, go look at what Google is doing today.”

At its heart, cloud native refers to a software architecture paradigm tailored for the cloud. It calls that applications 1) employ containers as the atomic unit for packaging and deployment, 2) be autonomic, that is centrally orchestrated and dynamically scheduled, and 3) be microservices-oriented