Engineering Productivity and Testing, with Katharine Berry

Katharine Berry works in the Engineering Productivity team at Google Cloud, and works in SIG Testing on the Kubernetes project. She joins Adam and Craig to discuss Prow, Pebble and ponies.

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Chatter of the week

• SkyCity Convention Centre Fire
  • A nice dinner out after a conference
• England knock NZ out of the Rugby World Cup
• Cards Against Humanity to open a restaurant
  • The Holiday Hole

News of the week

• GKE Release Channels are in Beta
• GKE usage metering is GA: use it to combat over-provisioning
  • Episode 40 with Madhu Yennamani
• A new guide for PCI-DSS compliance on GKE
• Exploring container security: Vulnerability management in open-source Kubernetes
  • Episode 34 with Jordan Liggitt
  • Episode 17 with Jon Pulsifer
• HPE are set to deliver a Kubernetes platform for data analytics and ML
• How to bulid a kubectl plugin by Jonas-Taha El Sesiy
  • Episode 66, with Luk Burchard and Ahmet Alp Balkan
• NVIDIA Aerial framework
  • Red Hat partnership
  • GPU Operator
• Red Hat releases OpenShift Container Storage 4.2
• Kontena Lens 2.3 released
• New Octant.dev website and v0.8.0
• Zoho Catalyst and coverage from Container Journal

Links from the interview

• Pebble smartwatch
  • Original $10m Kickstarter
  • Sold to Fitbit
  • Rebble Web Services and the Rebble Alliance
  • What Rebble replaces
  • How Pebble Users Are Keeping the Smartwatch Alive 3 Years After It Supposedly Died
• Google Engineering Productivity
• Kubernetes SIG Testing
• Prow
  • The Machines Can Do the Work, a Story of Kubernetes Testing, CI, and Automating the Contributor Experience by Aaron Crickenberger and Ben Elder
  • Prow: Keeping Kubernetes CI/CD Above Water
  • Now in Jenkins-X
• Tests are moving to kind
  • Episode 69 with Ben Elder
• The Kubernetes Prow instance
• Spyglass
• Flaky tests
• Automating away the test-infra role
  • Episode 72 with Lachlan Evenson
  • Testgrid
• Automating Slack
  • Episode 74 with Jorge Castro
  • Closed due to attacks
  • Tempelis
• SIG Testing on Slack
• The pink pony
  • Generative adversarial network
  • AI generated ponies
• Katharine Berry on Twitter
• Katharine’s web site