Airbnb, with Melanie Cebula

Melanie Cebula is a staff engineer at Airbnb, where she has built a scalable modern architecture on top of cloud native technologies. She regularly shares her knowledge in presentations focusing on cloud efficiency and usability, and today shares the story of Airbnb’s Kubernetes migration with hosts Adam and Craig.

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Chatter of the week

• Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
• River Otter
  • River otter

News of the week

• Five days of Kubernetes 1.19:
  • Structured logs
  • API server warning messages
  • EndpointSlices
  • Storage capacity tracking
  • 1 year support
• TiKV graduates from CNCF incubation
• cert-manager 1.0
• Episode 75, with James Munnelly
• Tanzu Build Service is GA
• State of Spring report
• AWS Bottlerocket is GA on EKS
• Kalm (keep Kalm and karry on)
  • Developer thread on Reddit
• CRAFT from Salesforce (and its GitHub repo)
• Introducing Kubernetes CSI sidecar containers from HPE by long-time listener Michael “Data” Mattsson
• KubeCon EU Virtual YouTube playlist
• CNCF to provide another round of CommunityBridge mentorships
• Faster services: no CPU limits by Eric Khun
  • Hacker News thread
• How GoJek upgrades Kubernetes on GKE by Tasdik Rahman

Links from the interview

• Melanie Cebula
• Our second classically trained musician guest
• Early Airbnb architecture
• Charon
• Programming by toggling switches
• Smartstack
• Horizontal Pod Autoscaling: minReplicas
• Melanie’s talks:
  • FutureStack 17: From Monolith to Microservices
  • KubeCon NA 2018 keynote: Developing at Scale
  • KubeCon NA 2019: 10 Weird Ways to Blow Up Your Kubernetes
• Melanie Cebula on Twitter