The last day of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 dawned bright and sunny again, with attendees streaming in to learn the latest about cutting edge topics including LLMs, 5G and 6G, and more. Here’s a snapshot of the keynotes.
Clayton Coleman, distinguished engineer at Google, and Jiaxin Shan, software engineer at Bytedance, presented LLM-Aware load balancing in Kubernetes: A new era of efficiency. Their conclusion was load balancer are key, and that a lot of work can be automated out of GenAI serving using two basic principles: Model the cost of an incoming LLM request and decide how sending it to a backend will impact the latency of other requests, and build a realtime snapshot of each backend’s performance by continuously gathering metrics so it’s possible to capture the complex relationships between hardware, concurrency and client-visible latency. Their prediction: 2025 will be the year of production scaling.
A panel of telecom experts including Faseela K from Ericsson Software Engineering, Tom Kivlin of Vodafone, Philippe Ensarguet of Orange, and Joel Studler of Swissccom spoke about Cloud native evolution in telecom: 5G, 6G, and beyond! Their conclusion is that the industry needs a cultural shift and that tech companies need to adopt cloud native tooling in order to maximize productivity gains. “Everything we fix today reduces tech debt tomorrow.”
Eddie Knight, OSPO lead at Sonatype and Michael Lieberman, CTO at Kusari, discussed Cutting through the fog: Clarifying CRA compliance in cloud native. Their presentation explained the Cyber Resilience Act, EU legislation intended to protect consumers and businesses from cybersecurity threats in products with digital elements.
Ricardo Rocha, computing engineer at CERN and Katie Gamanji, senior field engineer at Apple, spoke about 221B Cloud Native Street, on behalf of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee. Among other efforts, the TOC has kicked off the TAG reboot initiative, with the aim to scale the TAGs and prepare the community for the next decade of cloud native. And the TOC has also identified a few gaps that we believe will shape the future trends within our ecosystem, including multicluster management, cost management and sustainability, and tooling around infrastructure provisioning and secret management.
Carolina Lindqvist, system specialist at EPFL, spoke about Science at light speed: Cloud native infrastructure for astronomy workloads. The Square Kilometre Array has three sites – one telescope in South Africa, one in Australia and a headquarters in the UK – 12 member states, and generates 600 petabytes of data a year! The project has a wide variety of science goals.
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