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It's time to replace an outdated metaphor. "Cattle Not Pets" is the slogan of much of the container ecosystem, but that concept breaks down when you start looking at increasingly complex and sophisticated services. I will introduce a new metaphor, "Bots Not Cattle" to discuss how we should be building the smart, self-managing services of the future. Examples will be drawn from the game Robo Rally, and code shown for an example PostgreSQL High Availability service.