Mobile Operators are going through a profound disruption in their industry. With mobile data traffic more than doubling every year, and OTT providers competing for subscriber revenue, operators are transitioning to virtualized, cloud native architectures to help economically scale their networks and provide the necessary service agility to rapidly introduce new services. In the session, Affirmed Networks and Red Hat will discuss what are the necessary adaptations required to deliver telco applications on a cloud native architectures. It will provide answers to questions such as "How do you balance performance with the flexibility of microservices?" and "How do you handle telco complex routing requirements?"