# Centralized control planes can't scale — the internet's roots are the answer

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-06-11
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** "Keynote from Greg Osuri: \\"Journey to Acceleration & Beyond\\" - Akash Accelerate '24" (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:05:07 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04-IN8Btp3U&t=307s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2024-06-11-centralized-control-planes-can-t-scale-the-interne-42f7/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Centralized control planes can't scale — the internet's roots are the answer," "Keynote from Greg Osuri: \\"Journey to Acceleration & Beyond\\" - Akash Accelerate '24" (Akash Network), 11 Jun 2024, 00:05:07. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04-IN8Btp3U&t=307s

## Quote — verbatim

> You cannot scale to any level of high performance using a centralized control plane. The only way to really massively scale is go back to the roots, how the internet was founded — decentralized... instead of a single control plane we can have a decentralized control plane where there's no dependency on a single point of failure... blockchains happen to be the only data structure that would allow us to have a decentralized control mechanism, or decentralized coordination mechanism.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Explaining how a Kubernetes-tooling company "stumbled upon blockchains" in 2016-17 — his foundational architectural thesis.