Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Talk by Kelis Hightower

socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presentations/scenic-route-cloud-native

By the time I started learning cloud-native technologies, tools like containers and orchestration were already considered “basic knowledge”, yet no one seemed to agree on how beginners were actually supposed to learn them. This talk reflects on my journey into cloud-native computing as part of a generation that grew up alongside the technology but was never really taught how it works.