Introducing hybrid services
From 2014 to 2015, what most organizations and engineers alike were reading sounded something similar to data centers will go away, the cloud is the future, and everyone that isn’t in the cloud will be left behind. Organizations started to feel pressured to move to the cloud and engineers started to get nervous because the skills they had honed for years were becoming obsolete. Coming back to the present, which is 2022 at the time of writing this book, mainframes still exist… so, yes, many organizations are still running on-prem workloads. Engineers that have an infrastructure and systems background are doing quite well for themselves in the new cloud-native era. The reason why is that 100% of the skills they have learned, other than racking and stacking servers, are still very relevant for the cloud and Kubernetes.
In the Understanding operating systems and infrastructure section, you may remember reading about on-prem workloads and how...
