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He Helped Fix Twitter. Now He's Building AI Infrastructure

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We sit down with William Morgan, founder and CEO of Buoyant, to talk about how he turned Linkerd into a successful open source business and what it takes to build infrastructure for the next wave of AI.

We cover the Twitter chaos that inspired Linkerd, why Rust was the right choice for a mission-critical system, and how Buoyant figured out the hard way which features companies will actually pay for.

We also get into the future of AI infrastructure, including why running models inside company environments matters, how enterprises think about compliance and control, and what changes are coming as GPU costs shift.

  • AI infrastructure
  • Open source
  • Engineering

Guest

William Morgan

Co-founder & CEO, Buoyant

The engineer who helped kill Twitter's fail whale and then invented an entire category. As a Twitter infrastructure engineer he lived through the monolith-to-microservices migration, then co-founded Buoyant and created Linkerd — the first production service mesh, now a CNCF graduated project. A veteran of Powerset, Microsoft and MITRE, he's a fixture on the KubeCon stage and is now building the plumbing the AI era will run on.

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