You Launch When You Need to Launch but You Understand That Coubernettes Are Going to Slow You Down
You launch when you need to, but understand that as soon as you launch, you 're going to slow down by at least a factor of two and maybe three. You increase the complexity of your operations and stants, your coubernettes usage, when you need it. And what this approach means for us is that we can innovate elsewerand we can fight other battles there arestill therewill till be battles to fight. Even if you don't do this one, it doesn't mean that you're like, less capable or less curious. It just means you've picked your battles in a way that suits you.
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Tammer Saleh, founder of SuperOrbital and former VP of Engineering at Pivotal, is joining Gerhard to talk about table tennis, remote work, and challenges that teams have with K8s.
Some years ago, both Tammer & Gerhard used to work in the same London office on CloudFoundry, and nowadays they are both into Kubernetes. Tammer and the SuperOrbital team are deeply experienced in this topic, and they help teams at companies like Bloomberg, Shopify, and federal U.S. agencies tackle hard Kubernetes and DevOps problems through engineering and training.
Why do companies need Kubernetes in the first place? Which are the right reasons for choosing it? Is Kubernetes a platform? Gerhard’s favourite: we are doing Kubernetes wrong, but it works better than when we were doing it right, so what’s up with that? This last one was a lot of fun, and we left the entire minute of laughter in at your request. Enjoy!
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