Pets vs Cattle

This refers to the pets versus cattle analogy for IT
https://youtu.be/Ox_Wm6XQnxI

The analogy concisely describes a major paradigm shift in our industry that we have been implementing with BAM2.
http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/the-history-of-pets-vs-cattle/

An elevator pitch for “Pets vs Cattle” from “The History of Pets vs Cattle and How to Use the Analogy Properly”

In the old way of doing things, we treat our servers like pets, for example Bob the mail server. If Bob goes down, it’s all hands on deck. The CEO can’t get his email and it’s the end of the world. In the new way, servers are numbered, like cattle in a herd. For example, www001 to www100. When one server goes down, it’s taken out back, shot, and replaced on the line.

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More articles on Pets vs Cattle

"4 Reasons Why “Pets Versus Cattle” Still Matters in Cloud Security" https://nightfall.ai/resources/pets-vs-cattle/

This slide is taken from a presentation given by Gavin McCance at CERN in 2012. Though, The Register identifies Microsoft’s Bill Baker as the original source of this analogy.

"Pets Vs. Cattle" https://blog.engineyard.com/pets-vs-cattle