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Can you tell the difference between an API Gateway, the API Gateway, and a Gateway? What is Nginx or HAProxy anyway? Are they proxies? Controllers? CRD’s? Resources? Sometimes, it feels like things are named in a certain way to confuse us on purpose. But don’t worry, this talk is made for you. To simplify things, we will go back to square zero. We will look at the history of these things, where they came from, and their purpose. We will then fast forward into the Cloud Native modern world, and you will not be surprised that nothing is new. We are just reusing stuff people used 10, 15, or 20 years ago. Back to Basics is the other title I could have given this session. You don’t need to have a lot of experience; you just need to join me, and we will reminisce and look into the future.
Abdel Sghiouar is a senior Cloud Developer Advocate @Google Cloud. A co-host of the Kubernetes Podcast by Google and a CNCF Ambassador. His focused areas are GKE/Kubernetes, Service Mesh and Serverless.
