[falcolas]

Containerization.

We don't talk about c-groups and compressed files with metadata, we talk about containers and images. We don't talk about individual machines running a number of highly specialized daemons with configuration files, cryptographic keys, and networks-in-networks, we talk about clusters and pods and gateways.

Notwithstanding that much of the code which has built up these sweeping generalizations is built of a tangle of red dogs, the abstractions are very high level and mean we rarely have to discuss infrastructure at a very low level.

Of course, there's a twist to that as well, that hearkens back to an earlier statement: the understanding have been limited to an extremely high level as well. The number of people who can troubleshoot a container cluster is small, and growing smaller. We've intentionally created cliff notes of "Salman Rushdie" novels and believe that's all the populace needs.