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Joel Lord
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Joel Lord (joel__lord on Twitter) is passionate about the web and technology in general. He likes to learn new things, but most of all, he wants to share his discoveries. He does so by traveling to various conferences all across the globe. He graduated from college with a degree in computer programming in the last millennium. Apart from a little break to get his BSc in computational astrophysics, he has always worked in the industry. In his daily job, Joel is a developer advocate with MongoDB, where he connects with software engineers to help them make the web better by using best practices around JavaScript. In his free time, he can be found stargazing on a campground somewhere or brewing a fresh batch of beer in his garage.
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Being a software developer in the age of cloud-native development

Chances are that you've had to deal with the cloud at some point or another in your career already, but does that make you a cloud-native software developer? The term cloud-native can be overloaded. There are many definitions out there, and it's usually more of a range than an actual set of criteria.

For all things cloud-native-related, we can look toward the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, also known as the CNCF (https://www.cncf.io). The CNCF is a vendor-neutral home for open source projects that are related to cloud-native technologies. They host projects such as Kubernetes, containerd, and Prometheus.

In 2018, they came up with the following definition:

"Cloud-native technologies empower organizations to build and run scalable applications in modern, dynamic environments such as public, private, and hybrid clouds. Containers, service meshes, microservices, immutable infrastructure, and...

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Joel Lord (joel__lord on Twitter) is passionate about the web and technology in general. He likes to learn new things, but most of all, he wants to share his discoveries. He does so by traveling to various conferences all across the globe. He graduated from college with a degree in computer programming in the last millennium. Apart from a little break to get his BSc in computational astrophysics, he has always worked in the industry. In his daily job, Joel is a developer advocate with MongoDB, where he connects with software engineers to help them make the web better by using best practices around JavaScript. In his free time, he can be found stargazing on a campground somewhere or brewing a fresh batch of beer in his garage.
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