What Does Cloud-Native Even Mean?

Containers, microservices, serverless, and cloud-native are the terms of the day. But are they universally understood?   Somehow, clouds seem to be stuck in a perpetual terminological limbo. Back when cloud computing started, we had IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, and there were a bunch of users scratching their heads on just what all those “aaS-es”…