Aggarwal: Cloud-native applications only proliferated when Kubernetes arrived in 2018
Sachin Aggarwal · The Founder Who Mastered Timing Ft Sachin Aggarwal | StackGen · Nov 12, 2025 · at 17:43
Sachin Aggarwal explains the evolution of cloud architecture and why modern cloud security tooling was not viable prior to 2018.
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“It was less number and also it was mostly lift and shift. It was not container, it was not cloud native applications. Cloud native applications started happening mostly around 2018 when Kubernetes came.”
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