The Cloud-Native Foundation Layer: A Portable, Vendor-Neutral Base for Modern Systems
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Cloud-native began with containers and Kubernetes. Since then, it has become a set of open standards and protocols that let systems run anywhere with minimal friction.
Today's engineering landscape spans public clouds, private clouds, on-prem clusters, and edge environments - far beyond the old single-cloud model. Teams work this way because it's the only practical response to cost, regulation, latency, hardware availability, and outages.
If you expect change, you need an architecture that can handle it.
