Bridging the Gap: Future Directions for Kubernetes and Distributed Systems

Bridging the Gap: Future Directions for Kubernetes and Distributed Systems When Pokémon GO launched, the world went wild. At Google, we watched as our product, Google Kubernetes Engine , handled a scale we had only theorized about. The game shattered every record for a consumer workload and became a massive success story for Kubernetes and cloud-native orchestration. We had built a system that could manage stateless compute at a scale nobody had ever imagined. But after the adrenaline wore off,