Explore the fascinating parallels between honey bee colonies and distributed systems in this 36-minute conference talk by Simon Emms and Christian Weichel from Gitpod. Discover how bees have naturally evolved solutions to problems commonly faced in Kubernetes environments. Learn about the autoscaling, self-healing, message passing, service discovery, and RBAC mechanisms present in bee hives. Gain insights into cost-effective processes that bee colonies have developed and how they relate to cloud-native engineering challenges. Compare the fundamental operations of bee colonies with Kubernetes features, and consider potential improvements to Kubernetes inspired by bee behavior.