Deploy Your Own SolrCloud to Kubernetes for Fun and Profit
One of the big dependencies Sitecore has is Apache Solr (not SOLR or Solar) which it uses for search.
With Sitecore 10, Sitecore has introduced Sitecore Headless Services (the artist formerly known as JSS Server Components) as a new means to do Sitecore development in a decoupled fashion.
Sitecore 10.0 made its way into the world a few weeks back and while it wasn’t a dramatic user-facing major release, it was a huge release for Sitecore becoming more cloud-native and looking ahead to the future of the Sitecore development experience.