Throughout the first half of my career, I learned to be a craftsman. Over the years, I honed the ability of carefully developing code that was optimally useful. It was beautiful, and it NEVER REPEATED ITSELF. Then I moved to cloud DevOps and learned to build systems using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Early in this process, I encountered a vexing statement. Treat your servers like cattle, not pets. While perplexing at first, this sparked a revolution in my thinking. Developers should develop their code with the clear understanding that no code should last forever. Embrace the impermanence to write better code. This talk conveys the lessons I learned working with cloud infrastructure. It will include concrete examples of how these approaches improve application code, especially in a microservice and serverless environment.