Cloud Native Does Not Necessarily Mean Portable Akamai

We recently ran a series on one of the hottest topics of the cloud-native world — Platform Engineering vs DevOps. Is DevOps Dead? In this mash-up video, we gathered insights from cloud-native technologists to understand how they perceive this topic. We talked to Lian Li, Developer Advocate at Loft Labs, Rob Hirschfeld, CEO and Co-founder of RackN, Austin Parker, Head of Developer Relations at Lightstep, Pavel Despot, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Akamai Technologies, April Hickel, Vice President of Product Management, Intelligent Z Optimization and Transformation (IZOT) at BMC Software, Kit Merker, Chief Growth Officer at Nobl9, Steven Kim, CTO at Qarik Group, Joe Duffy, CEO and Founder of Pulumi, and Jonas Bonér, Founder and CEO at Lightbend.

Marcin Kolny, Senior SDE of Prime Video, published a blog post that stirred the cloud-native community and set Twitter and Blogosphere on fire. Pavel Despot, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Akamai, joined me to demystify some of the myths you may be reading. Firstly, Despot commends Amazon Prime team for releasing the blog, adding that Amazon Prime is an edge case, it’s not what everyone is using microservices for, “there are times when you realize that you're breaking that torque wrench and you either need a bigger wrench or some other kind of tool in general,” he says. That’s exactly what the Amazon Prime team did. They pulled the bigger wrench, in this case monolith from their tool box.