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Are We Really Cloud-Native?

What is the focus of your work today?

I have a pretty broad role at Luminis where I'm both in the leadership team but also a trusted adviser to some of my customers. My technical backgrounds is both in Java and cloud technologies. I consider myself to be a Java and cloud postmodernist. I've been around long enough with Java, I've used the first bits that actually hit the Internet, the applets. I've seen the classical use of Java, I've seen the more modern use, and nowadays, especially in the cloud age there's what I like to call the postmodernist use of Java. This is what I'd like to talk about to customers and to my colleagues and to people attending conferences all over the place.

What's the motivation for your talk?

I think that using the cloud is typically not very new to most people nowadays. It has been around for like 10-15 years now, although I see a lot of my customers now turning to the cloud for real. They ran some experiments with it, they tried it out a few years ago but mostly for some of the wrong reasons. They thought they could use it to do cost savings. Now, especially with all of the analyst reports writing about how cloud is going to eat up mainstream application development, they turn to the  cloud for real. But then I see them still using it as a virtualization platform and I think the modern cloud is much more than that and that's what I try to educate people on.