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Is the system you work on a pet or one of the cattle?

September 3, 2020 · by andylongshaw | in Software | Leave a comment

  “Cattle not pets” is a well-used analogy in cloud infrastructure about the change in mindset needed in order to embrace the power of infrastructure automation, auto-scaling, etc. Its point is that your servers are no longer lovingly hand-crafted machines named after characters from genres such as Lord of the Rings (guilty in a previous […]

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