Cheryl Hung (oicheryl.com) presents an overview of the current trends in hardware, cloud, and open-source, with thoughts on the most interesting areas of innovation and the impact on infrastructure and business.

1. KEY TRENDS SHAPING
THE FUTURE OF
INFRASTRUCTURE
CHERYL HUNG, SR DIRECTOR @ ARM, OICHERYL.COM
THE DEVOPS CONFERENCE
LONDON, 14 MAR 2024

2. ABOUT CHERYL
• Senior Director of Infrastructure
Ecosystem at Arm
• Previously VP Ecosystem at CNCF.
Known for promoting Cloud Native
Technologies, Thought Leadership,
Community Building
• Also Google, Apple

3. KEY TRENDS
PRACTICAL CLOUD NATIVE AI
THE HEALTH OF VENDOR-DRIVEN
OPEN SOURCE

4. WHAT IS CLOUD NATIVE AI?

5. WHAT IS CLOUD NATIVE AI?
Cloud Native Artificial Intelligence allows the construction of practical
systems to deploy, run, and scale AI workloads.

6. WHAT IS CLOUD NATIVE AI?
Cloud Native Artificial Intelligence allows the construction of practical
systems to deploy, run, and scale AI workloads.
WHY?

7. WHAT IS CLOUD NATIVE AI?
Cloud Native Artificial Intelligence allows the construction of practical
systems to deploy, run, and scale AI workloads.
WHY?
By leveraging the underlying cloud infrastructure's computing (e.g., CPUs
and GPUs), network, and storage capabilities, as well as providing isolation
and controlled sharing mechanisms, it accelerates AI application
performance and reduces costs.

9. THE LANDSCAPE IS
CHANGING FAST

10. THE HEALTH OF VENDOR-DRIVEN OPEN SOURCE
linkerd.io/2024/02/21/announcing-linkerd-2.15/
“While Linkerd will always be open
source, as of Linkerd 2.15, producing
stable Linkerd releases will be in the
hands of the vendor community”

11. OPEN SOURCE RELICENSING
Oct 2018: MongoDB AGPLv3 > SSPL
Feb 2019: Redis Modules under Redis Source Available License
Jan 2021: Elasticsearch Apache2 > SSPL, Elastic License
Apr 2021: Grafana Apache2 > AGPLv3
Aug 2023: Terraform MPL 2.0 > Business Source License

12. MANAGE
YOUR OPEN
SOURCE
EXPOSURE!
Which open-source license does it use?
Can you automate compliance checks?
Who’s behind the open source?
What’s the governance policy?

13. FURTHER RESOURCES
Cloud Native AI White Paper: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14m-
ilC2xzg6P4S1XCSaeqPNCUUEvF2Kew1tXrdW6PUQ/edit
Health of Linkerd project: https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/1262

14. THANK YOU
SLIDES AT OICHERYL.COM