Timed to KubeCon CloudNativeCon in Atlanta, this Techzine feature by Adrian Bridgwater takes stock of the state of cloud-native computing in 2025. The piece gathers perspectives from across the ecosystem to answer a deceptively simple question: after a decade of Kubernetes, where does cloud-native stand now? A recurring theme is maturity — Kubernetes has become the default substrate for modern software delivery, to the point where it is no longer the focus of conversation but the assumed foundation beneath it. Citing the CNCF and SlashData State of Cloud Native 2025 report, the article notes there are now roughly 15.6 million developers using cloud-native tools, even as the share of backend developers who identify as direct Kubernetes users has dipped, largely because platform engineering increasingly abstracts that complexity away. Industry leaders quoted throughout agree that AI is the biggest disruptor, bringing an entirely new class of builders and workloads that challenge observability, operations, and supportability. Among the voices is James Urquhart, Field CTO and Technology Evangelist at Kamiwaza AI, who observes that enterprises still run on software built over years or decades in architectures descended from 1990s client-server patterns — and that AI does little to change that legacy reality on its own. The article surveys related themes including data lakehouses, FinOps and sustainability, software supply-chain security, and Kubernetes evolving toward AI-native orchestration. Read the full article on Techzine for the complete round-up.
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