Kubernetes for Humans

A very special K8s4Humans episode with two absolute rockstars! 🤘🏼👨🏼‍🎤🇧🇷👨🏼‍🎤🤘🏼 ☸️ Marcelo Quadros is a Software Expert at Mercado Libre Brazil, the largest marketplace in Latin America. With over 13 years of experience, he specializes in developing and architecting complex systems for diverse domains. Currently, he contributes to the Cloud & Platform team, building a platform that manages over 26,000 microservices and supports 12,000 developers. Outside of work he likes to play with his daughter and loves to watch a good rock ’n’ roll concert. ☸️ Juliano is responsible for the Cloud & Platform teams at Mercado Libre, the largest marketplace and fintech in Latin America. He focuses on improving the experience and efficiency of the development team, creating and maintaining features and services in the Internal Development Platform (IDP), and all non-IDP infrastructure. He has been working in IT for over 20 years, leading teams with a very technical bias. Juliano loves playing video games, especially Zelda, and listening to Pink Floyd!  

Sebastien Goasguen built his first compute cluster in the late 90s when they were still called Beowulf clusters while working on his PhD; he has been working on making computing a utility since then. He has done research in grid computing and high-performance computing and with the advent of virtualization moved to cloud computing in the mid-2000s. He is the co-founder of Trigermesh, the OSS cloud-native integration platform. Previously a Senior Director of Cloud Technologies at Bitnami and a senior Open Source Solutions Architect at Citrix, where he worked primarily on the Apache CloudStack project, helping develop the CloudStack ecosystem. Sebastien is a project management committee member (PMC) of CloudStack and Apache Cloud and a member of the Apache Software Foundation, he focuses on the cloud ecosystem and has contributed to dozens of open-source projects. Sebastien is currently working for Nvidia and already has 3 O'Reilly books under his belt, available on Amazon: > The Kubernetes Cookbook > The Docker Cookbook > 60 Recipes for Apache CloudStack

Pini Reznik, CEO and Co-Founder of re:cinq, discusses his background in software development, the evolution of Container Solutions, challenges with onboarding developers into Kubernetes, and the importance of building sustainable and efficient systems. The speakers also emphasize the responsibility of software in shaping the future.

Ian Nowland, a software development and management professional, discusses challenges in transitioning to Kubernetes in finance, legacy system migrations, and navigating complexity in Kubernetes and observability. He also shares insights on his career journey from mechanical engineering to platform engineering.

Hans Kristian Flaatten from NAV discusses their cloud native journey, DSL for app deployment challenges, responsibilities in money processing organizations, and upcoming industry trends like platform editing, WebAssembly, and serverless functions in Kubernetes.

Ops engineer Charity Majors discusses the journey from Parse to co-founding Honeycomb for observability. Topics include distinguishing monitoring and observability, challenges in the tech industry with similar tools, benefits of new tools, reflections on building databases, and leveraging CHET GPT for code writing.

Guest Joshua Burgin, VP of Product & Strategy at VMWare, discusses his journey from Amazon to founding a startup, challenges in adopting common platform technology, evolution of cloud services at Amazon & VMware, Kubernetes future, and developer onboarding efficiency.

Josh Rosso, Principal Engineer at Reddit, talks about Reddit's transition to Kubernetes, code deployment with specialized parameters, challenges in infrastructure development, performance optimization, and scaling Kubernetes operators and controllers. He shares insights on managing clusters, improving performance, and the future of infrastructure management using Kubernetes principles.

Senior Systems Engineer Alexandru Dejanu discusses transitioning to Kubernetes from Cloud Foundry, challenges of platform engineering, dynamic workloads, resource limits, SREs, and monitoring tools like Prometheus. The conversation also touches on managing Kubernetes clusters, evolving trends, expressing business logic through Custom Resource Definitions, and community-building initiatives.

Senior Staff Engineer Todd Palino from LinkedIn discusses his career transition to SRE and capacity engineering. Topics include evolution of SRE at LinkedIn, capacity planning, tools for performance optimization, transitioning responsibilities, alerting in complex environments, and challenges in site reliability engineering.