Gardens and Glaciers: Saving Knowledge Through Succession

Emily Fox, Security Engineer at Apple, discusses the critical importance of preserving deep technical knowledge within the cloud-native ecosystem. She uses the metaphor of 'knowledge glaciers' to represent accumulated expertise, warning that without active succession planning and knowledge transfer, valuable lessons are lost with each generation of technologists. The talk emphasizes the need to cultivate 'cloud-native gardens' by planting seeds for future leaders and ensuring continuous growth and knowledge sharing within the community.