I think it was Randy Bias that introduced the idea of pets vs cattle. See his presentation at http://www.slideshare.net/randybias/architectures-for-open-and-sca

I think it was Randy Bias that introduced the idea of pets vs cattle. See his presentation at http://www.slideshare.net/randybias/architectures-for-open-and-scalable-clouds http://www.slideshare.net/randybias/architectures-for-open-a...