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

Modern life, properly defined.

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n.A contract between systems, revised whenever either party feels sufficiently confident.

A hand-drawn satirical comic showing Lucifer officiating a contract ceremony between version one and version two systems while a clerk repeatedly erases and rewrites the agreement.
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A connected train of thought

  1. Cloud & Infrastructure

    KAFKA n.

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

  2. Cloud & Infrastructure

    CLOUD n.

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

  3. Cloud & Infrastructure

    KUBERNETES n.

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