Open-source projects are no longer just tools for developers — they’ve become the backbone of transformative ecosystems driving progress in artificial intelligence, security and platform engineering.
As industries pivot toward integrated solutions, the spotlight is on interoperability, enhanced developer experiences and reducing complexity. This shift underscores a collective push for workflows and standards that champion sustainable innovation over temporary fixes, according to Taylor Dolezal (pictured), head of ecosystem at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
“I think that’s the best advice that we can give people is … don’t bind to the project, bind to the workflow,” Dolezal said. “It’s things like Wasm and other stuff are also coming up, and so that’s interesting to see these little places where this used to be infrastructure for a long time. Kubernetes was pretty much it, and then when that slowed down and became stable — and we’re still doing that day over day — …