Bob Killen, senior technical program manager at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), shares highlights from two survey reports released this week during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025: The 2025 State of Cloud Native Development report and AI Tech Radar Report. According to Killen, the results show that cloud-native technology has become more accessible to back-end developers, and that AI development is closely tied to cloud-native infrastructure – even though AI engineers might not be aware of it.
Featuring: Bob Killen, senior technical program manager, CNCF
In today’s episode, we’ll cover…

How many back-end developers and AI engineers consider themselves "cloud-native," and what that means
What's behind increased hybrid cloud usage compared to previous years
The relatively young AI projects organizations are already using in production

and more!
References:

OpenTelemetry adapts to AI observability
Model Context Protocol fever spreads in cloud-native world
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025 news coverage
CNCF: AI is the new workload, cloud-native is the new OS

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