Keynote: Looking at the Past to Understand our Future - Jorge Castro, CNCF
summary
Argues the CNCF landscape contains 72 projects and that plotting them hides complex ecological relationships; treats Kubernetes-era software as organisms where attention as food drives adoption and maintenance, and notes Kubernetes crossed a ten-year threshold so life cycles matter. Claims large projects show high inertia and are hard to pivot, specialists fail faster under stress while generalists persist, and recommends managing projects with ecosystem-level governance and long‑term maintenance practices rather than narrow feature racing.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:28Deep Time
- 5:45Cloud Native
- 7:05Carnotaurus
- 7:40Niche generalization
- 8:50Specialization
- 11:15Extinction
- 12:00Conclusion
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