David Pait was a touring musician in pop punk band Sparks The Rescue. Now, he's an SRE working on Kubernetes at an ad-tech company. How did he get there? And if you're looking to change careers, how might you? Craig and Adam dig in.

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Links from the interview

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Sparks the Rescue
- Vans Warped tour
- David on stage
Munki for Mac software deployment
A considered purchase
Google's SRE books
eksctl
Velero, fka Heptio Ark
Fixing reuse-values in Helm
Go listen to Hot Mulligan
- Or Taylor Swift, totally up to you
David Pait on Twitter

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