In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Rick Spencer, VP of Products at InfluxData, previously the VP of Platforms for InfluxData. The discussion focuses on InfluxData, creator of InfluxDB, and how they help customers looking for a Time-Series database solution. Rick talks about the interesting IoT and Edge computing use cases, and how getting that real-time sensor information can be transformational for customers. In the second half of the discussion, we focus on how InfluxDB cloud runs across three major cloud providers, running on top of Kubernetes itself. Rick focuses on their Kubernetes adoption journey and talks about their architecture today. We also talk about how users can leverage InfluxDB for monitoring their large-scale Kubernetes deployments too! 

Show Links:

• Datastax raises a private equity round of $115M valuring the company at $1.6B to focus more on Astra DB and Astra streaming - https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/15/datastax-proves-its-still-possible-to-raise-nine-figures-at-higher-valuation-in-2022/
• Platform9 raises $26M bringing the total money raised across all the rounds to $100M - https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/14/platform9-raises-26m-to-help-manage-distributed-cloud-clusters/
• Finout raised $14M Series A funding to help organizations break down the cost of each Kubernetes namespace, each folder in the S3 bucket, each Snowflake Query, etc. -  https://www.geektime.com/finout-wants-to-reduce-your-cloud-costs-with-a-mega-bill-and-14m-in-a-round-funding/
• Mercedez Benz runs 900 K8s clusters -  https://www.infoworld.com/article/3664052/why-mercedes-benz-runs-on-900-kubernetes-clusters.html
• Weave Policy Library for HIPAA compliance - https://www.weave.works/blog/weave-policy-library-introducing-hipaa-policies
• Kanister Webinar - https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-cncf-online-programs-presents-cncf-on-demand-webinar-kanister-application-level-data-protection-on-kubernetes
• Cloud-native storage - Kubernetes Podcast - https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/182-cloud-native-storage/
• 2021 K8s Annual Report - https://www.cncf.io/reports/kubernetes-annual-report-2021/
  Enhancements#3337: KEP-3333 Retroactive default StorageClass assignment