Turn Up the Heat - Driving Cloud Native Innovation into Real-World Impact

Discover how leading organizations leverage cloud native technologies to solve real-world challenges and drive innovation in this keynote presentation featuring engineering leaders from Mailchimp, Bloomberg, Airbnb, and ByteDance. Learn from Maura Kelly's experience migrating Mailchimp's massive on-premises monolith to a cloud-native platform built on CNCF technologies, achieving 99.997% availability during active development. Explore Bloomberg's Kubernetes journey from AI infrastructure to cloud native platforms, including their use of KServe, Karmada, and Envoy AI Gateway for next-generation enterprise GenAI infrastructure. Follow Airbnb's evolution from a single Rails monolith to a rich cloud platform powered by CNCF technologies like Karpenter, Argo, and OpenTelemetry that supports over 5 million hosts and 2 billion guest arrivals globally. Gain insights into ByteDance's AIBrix platform for large-scale model inference across heterogeneous accelerators and clouds, featuring distributed KVCache offloading, multimodal serving, and intelligent request routing, as they announce their invitation to join the CNCF. Understand key engineering practices, best practices, and the evolving needs of cloud native adopters through firsthand insights from these industry leaders.