An airhacks.fm conversation with Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower) about:

HP laptop and playing Age of Empires, programming calculators with TI-BASIC, playing Mario on NES, enjoying the Metroid on NES, working at Google datacenter as contractor, bash is a programming language, working for a financial institution, modernising COBOL with Java, rewriting Cobol to python, learning Java and using JBoss, contributing to Python to make it better, venv (virtualenv) and pypy, using Puppet for configuration management, python vs. Ruby, overengineering with Java, Java is lean now, creeating the confd project, envsubst and Java, Cost Driven Architectures in the clouds, replacing Java with GO, starting at CoreOS, etcd as coordinator, implementation of RAFT, RAFT and cluster membership, contributing to Packr and Terraform, docker is written in GO, RAFT is understandable Paxos, RAFT did not consider bootstrapping, Apache zookeeper is used for coordination, Apache BookKeeper, CoreOS fleet, rkt vs. docker, salt configuration maangement, kubernetes pod, the status field in kubernetes, Google Service Weaver, Google App Engine, checkout episode: "#153 Java, Serverless, Google App Engine, gVisor, Kubernetes", writing modular code is important, monoliths and microservices, rust is leaking details, Kubernetes The Hard Way the step by step guide, Kubernetes Autopilot

Kelsey Hightower on twitter: @kelseyhightower

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