Published: 30 January 2024
Cloud-native platforms continue to evolve, combined with emerging technologies and trends such as GenAI and developer enablement. Product leaders must leverage the evolving cloud-native ecosystems to reinvent their offerings’ developer, platform engineer and operator experience.
Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly emerging as a key differentiator in cloud-native platforms by creating new practices and trends, such asAI-augmented software engineering and GenAI-enabled virtual assistants.
As mainstream customers increasingly embrace cloud-native platforms, they are demanding more integrated, comprehensive solutions that can cover new styles of middleware, operational practices and security, such as service mesh, observability and software supply chain security.
The capabilities of cloud-native platforms will be extended to edge and multicloud environments by enhancing runtime, infrastructure and management capabilities, such as WebAssembly (Wasm) and Kubernetes cluster fleet management.
Product leaders seeking to discover and track cloud-native emerging technologies
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Wataru Katsurashima, Michael Warrilow, Fernando Pereiro, Colin Fletcher, Mark Wah, Mark Driver, Craig Lowery, Chandra Mukhyala, Varsha Mehta, Balaji Abbabatulla, Danielle Casey, Jim Hare, Eric Goodness
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