Keynote: A Glimpse Into the Future of Cloud Native: Emergent Infrastructure

The presentation discusses the future of Cloud Native applications and their impact on infrastructure. It explores the concept of emergent systems and how it applies to the community. The speaker predicts that applications will eventually be able to deploy anywhere in the world based on their requirements.

• Cloud Native applications are replacing sysadmins as the primary focus for runtimes and tooling
• New runtime environments are being built on lessons learned from the community to increase developers' capabilities
• Emergent systems have unique behaviors that arise as part of the system, and there is no global control or observability
• Applications will eventually be able to deploy anywhere in the world based on their requirements
• Human processes are impacted by changes in APIs and standards
• The community needs to be thoughtful and careful in taking Cloud Native to the next level

The speaker uses the example of ants clustering together during a flood to illustrate the concept of emergent systems. Despite not having the properties of the system as a whole, the ants have unique behaviors that arise as part of the system. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of self-care and looking after oneself in the community.

We are at the edge of a new computing paradigm. Application developers and operators are replacing sysadmins as the primary focus for runtimes and tooling.New runtime environments are entering the ecosystem, built on the lessons learned from this community, which will increase the total capabilities of developers to build, scale quickly, and deploy applications. These platforms are dropping support for APIs such as POSIX in favor of more straightforward and scalable approaches that focus on the application's needs rather than the kernel.In this talk, we will explore the long-term future of Cloud Native applications, their implications on infrastructure, and how we can rise together to meet the demand.