I planned to write a book called Cloud Native1 Primer last year. O’Reilly declined the proposal because they preferred deep dives into specific topics rather than a broad overview. And they were right.

I intended to self-publish it, as I did with Understand Containers.

But with the advancements in large language models (LLMs), I no longer think it’s worthwhile to write it. Actually, I feel most technical books and blogs are not worth writing (and reading2) in the LLM era. People can learn much more3 effectively using LLMs.

So, this is my wrap-up for the will-never-be-finished Cloud Native Primer.

  1. If you think of Lambda or ECS when hearing about Cloud Native, we are not same people but still can be friends. ↩

  2. You should read AI-Engineering! ↩

  3. 10x from my experience. ↩