A dictionary of modern lifeOriginal definitions · Illustrated satire
Lucifer’s Lexicon

Modern life, properly defined.

Subjects

Cloud & Infrastructure.

Cloud platforms, containers, platform engineering, distributed infrastructure and the economics of renting computers creatively.

6 published definitions

  1. Cloud & Infrastructure

    SERVERLESS adj.

    Possessing servers in quantities sufficient to make their existence somebody else's concern.

  2. Data & AI

    DATA LAKE n.

    A place where information is poured faster than anybody learns to swim.

  3. Cloud & Infrastructure

    KUBERNETES n.

    A system for arranging containers so that nobody knows where the application is.

  4. Cloud & Infrastructure

    FINOPS n.

    The ceremony by which a company gives its cloud waste a dashboard, a cost centre and an owner, thereby making it respectable.

  5. Cloud & Infrastructure

    KAFKA n.

    A system for ensuring that no event is truly lost, merely waiting somewhere you have not yet inspected.

  6. Cloud & Infrastructure

    CLOUD n.

    Someone else's computer, made mysterious enough to justify recurring payment.