> A major premise of cloud computing is that everything is disposable. That norm is itself a way of coping with the hopeless state of state management, a lesso

> A major premise of cloud computing is that everything is disposable. That norm is itself a way of coping with the hopeless state of state management, a lesson learned from running imperative/convergent configuration management systems on VMs running mutable operating systems a generation before 'cloud native' was a thing. That whole 'best practice' is a workaround for shaky foundations.