Evolving to a human-centric cloud

Cloud Native Days Romania 2025

Cloud computing still feels like early spaceflight: brilliant, risky, and far more daunting than it needs to be.

Manual infra, SSH into prod, hand-run migrations, scaling by hand, and the IAM permissions spiral. I did all of it, and then one day I did not have to, and the interesting question is what that transition cost in the meantime.

The talk calls that cost the tax of mental complexity, and argues that the cloud has been charging it to the wrong people for years. My mother does not need a YAML config for her washing machine, and neither do the engineers paying for one in attention every morning. The craft worth admiring is not solving the hardest problem, it is making the solution usable by everyone who comes next.

Written for a cloud-native room, so it is specific about where the abstraction leaks and what the next layer up should look like once it stops.