BoF | Fueling Cloud Native: The Data We Have, the Data We Need - Hilary Carter, SVP Research
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · on Thursday, 2025-04-03· at 16:00· Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E·
summary
LF Research catalogs 78 studies on data.world under the Community Data License (CDLA 2.0) and publishes concrete findings: 89% cloud native adoption, Kubernetes reported as impactful by 92% of organizations, 50% use Kubernetes for inference workloads, and 84% report moderate-to-high generative AI adoption. Ongoing work builds an ROI framework to quantify the persistent contribution gap (open source comprises ~80–95% of stacks but upstream contribution lags) and measures costs of internal forks, maintainer employment value (74%), and vendor lock‑in savings.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Cloud native research intro
- 1:49LF Research data library
- 3:35Research frameworks & methods
- 5:232024 cloud native findings
- 6:47Kubernetes impact gaps
- 9:17Open source events value
- 11:25Generative AI convergence
- 13:13Cloud native security trends
- 15:01Open source ROI challenges
- 18:58Missing data needs
- 23:11Non-code contribution value
- 26:22Adoption metrics
- 27:49Closing remarks
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