In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, the adoption of cloud-native technologies has moved beyond being a choice to a crucial necessity for organizations around the globe. The promise of flexibility, scalability and resilience has driven this transition. Still, the journey toward complete cloud-native adoption often reveals a multitude of hurdles and challenges that must be overcome.

In this session, we will explore the peaks and valleys of this transformative journey as we tackle the principles of cloud-native computing, the pivotal role of open source software in this arena and the benefits of containerization and orchestration.

We will begin with the ""uphill"" portion of our journey, detailing the learning curve, architectural shifts and critical challenges organizations often encounter in transitioning to cloud-native platforms. These challenges include understanding distributed system complexities, ensuring application security in a cloud environment and managing operational changes in a DevOps culture.

Our journey's "downhill" section will focus on the benefits and opportunities at the heart of cloud-native technologies. We will unravel how these technologies can transform software delivery and business agility and how organizations can leverage these benefits for increased efficiency and competitive advantage.