2 papers
Kubernetes was built on decade-old assumptions, and its networking model still reflects that history. Modern identity-first networking approaches expose how much operational complexity we've normalized — and offer a path to simpler systems with lower human cost.
Running faithful cloud infrastructure replicas on developer machines can significantly reduce inner-loop latency and cut non-production cloud spend. This article examines what local-first means in an infrastructure context, what the data supports, where the approach breaks down, and how to adopt it without cargo-culting.