Very true this is container based and is very much in the style of what I experienced over 10 years at Google.  I put a disclaimer in the post to that.<p>I was also considering using the term &quot;cloud native&quot; over &quot;modern&quot; but didn&#x27;t want to bring definition of that term into the discussion.<p>My bar for modern is that it should be self healing -- hardware&#x2F;VMs should fail and the system should be able to recover without missing a beat.  That requires a level of management and dynamism that is hard to get without containers.  (Burning AMIs w&#x2F; autoscaling groups is a good alternative).