Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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For years, we were told we were escaping hardware. Virtualization, containers, and Kubernetes made the underlying servers practically invisible to the average application developer. Then came the AI boom and infrastructure got incredibly weird again.

In this fast-paced lightning talk, Billy Olson from Canonical breaks down why the modern AI server is no longer just a machine, but a volatile distributed system packed inside a single chassis.

About Billy
Billy Olsen is the Director of Cloud Engineering at Canonical.

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