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In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Buoyant co-founder and CEO William Morgan talks about reasons for building cloud-native applications and how the barriers to adopting those technologies have fallen away over the past few years. He also discusses Linkerd, Buoyant's flagship technology; the company's recent $10.5 million funding round; his time helping scale Twitter to overcome its infrastructure woes; and how Buoyant plans to monetize its open source foundation.

In the news segment, co-hosts Derrick Harris (ARCHITECHT) and Barb Darrow (Fortune) discuss Microsoft's new AI group and collection of AI efforts; Intel's continued data center dominance; and IBM's new Watson-powered approach to managing data center networks.