Economics of Kubernetes, with Owen Rogers

Owen Rogers is a Research Vice President at 451 Research, co-leading the cloud team. He gained a PhD in the economics of cloud computing in 2013. Owen joins Craig and Adam to discuss the economics of cloud computing generally, and Kubernetes specifically.

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Chatter of the week

• Apollo Guidance Computer Restoration
  • Summary from Wall Street Journal
• CyberSquirrel1 global threat map
• Jellyfish attach power station

News of the week

• IBM launches Kabanero
• Pivotal launches PAS for Kubernetes
• Weave Flux joins the CNCF
• Windows Container Unconference on Friday July 26th:
  • Sign up
  • Leave questions if you can’t attend
• Spinnaker for GCP launched
• Linkerd 2.4
• Architecting with GKE course, free for podcast listeners!
• Deep dive into Virtual Kubelet by Brian Goff
• SIG Usability forming
  • Google group
  • GitHub
  • Slack
• Cloud Provider SIGs moving to sub-projects
• Azure Monitor for containers adds Prometheus support
• Kubernetes API deprecations in 1.16

Links from the interview

• Owen Rogers
• 451 Research
• Cloud Price Index
• StackOverflow’s old scale-up strategy (2009)
• Large Scale Complex IT Systems
• Owen Rogers on Twitter