Top 5 cloud computing trends in 2018: What’s happened & what’s next?

Summary: Now that the year is half over, what have we seen and what should we expect to see for the rest of the year when it comes to the cloud? There were some forward-lookinf pieces written at the end of last year and start of 2018 on this topic and this piece could evaluate those predictions, delving into how they've panned out thus far along with a forecast of what to expect for the remainder of the year.

Keywords, themes: cloud infrastructure, kubernetes, containerization, microservices, microservices infrastructure

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