Hugh McKee is a developer advocate at Lightbend. He has had a long career building applications that evolved slowly, inefficiently utilized their infrastructure, and were brittle and prone to failure. Hugh has learned from his past mistakes, battle scars, and a few wins.

Overcoming the Fear of Losing Control in High Abstraction Cloud-Native Software
Despite the numerous advantages, developers often resist using high-abstraction software systems, even in cloud-native designs and environments, due to the perceived loss of control over the underlying technologies ...