Blog Post by Bob Quillin, ControlTheory
From Cloud-Native to AI-Native: A New Operational Model
A decade ago, cloud-native reshaped how teams built and deployed software. But as environments grew more distributed and noisy, simply collecting more telemetry stopped delivering more insight.
KubeCon 2025 made it clear: we’re entering the AI-native era, built on the shoulders of Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure.
“If there’s one thing I can take away from this conference, it’s that this now 10-year-old cloud native community is going to be just fine, and continue to innovate new ways to stay ahead of the pressures of AI development, and whatever comes next.”– Jason English, Intellyx – SiliconANGLE, “AI Leads Platform Engineering Revival“
Read the ControlTheory blog here: https://www.controltheory.com/blog/what-hundreds-of-sres-said-about-the-future-of-observability-at-kubecon-2025/



