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

Modern life, properly defined.

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KUBERNETES

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

A hand-drawn satirical comic showing Lucifer beside a warehouse of service containers while an engineer searches for an application being moved towards a door labelled somewhere.
The illustrated dictionary KUBERNETES
A connected train of thought

  1. Cloud & Infrastructure

    CLOUD n.

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

  2. Cloud & Infrastructure

    KAFKA n.

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

  3. Data & AI

    GENERATIVE AI n.

    A method of generating plausible text and implausible valuations in a Ponzi scheme of mutual enthusiasm, whose promised return is a workforce without workers.