From Cloud Native to AI Native: Where Are We Going?

At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Atlanta, the panel of experts - Kate Goldenring of Fermyon Technologies, Shaun O'Meara of Mirantis, Sean O'Dell of Dynatrace and James Harmison of Red Hat -explored whether the cloud native era has evolved into an AI native era — and what that shift means for infrastructure, security and development practices. Jonathan Bryce of the CNCF argued that true AI-native systems depend on robust inference layers, which have been overshadowed by the hype around chatbots and agents. As organizations push AI to the edge and demand faster, more personalized experiences, Fermyon’s Kate Goldenring highlighted WebAssembly as a way to bundle and securely deploy models directly to GPU-equipped hardware, reducing latency while adding sandboxed security.