Kubernetes for Humans

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.

Explore Nick Jones's journey from 3D graphics to cloud computing, the evolution of container orchestration technologies with a focus on Kubernetes pitfalls and organizational challenges, AI and Kubernetes trends including GPU utilization and job scheduling tools, and the community-driven evolution of the 'Sausage Cloud' project from a nuclear bunker to a public cloud deployment.

Gwen Shapira discusses transitioning open-source projects to SaaS offerings with Kubernetes. She shares insights on managing databases for major organizations and the challenges of running stateful services on Kubernetes. The conversation covers her software journey, platform engineering expertise, early experiences with Kubernetes at Confluent, managing stateful workloads, and the future impact of Kubernetes in the tech industry.

Andy McMahon, a data scientist and machine learning engineer, discusses his transition from data scientist to ML engineer, the challenges of implementing Kubernetes in a large organization, the future of MLOps and Kubernetes, and the enigmatic nature of Kubernetes. He also talks about successful book release and upcoming content on Kubeflow, RNNs, NLP, and generative AI.

Award-winning global thought leader Sebastian Kister discusses transitioning careers, challenges in team leadership at Audi, future of cloud platforms, and empowering individuals for innovation in enterprises.

Wouter Ligtenberg from ING discusses automating Kubernetes workloads and standardizing landscapes. Topics include building a bank in the Philippines using Kubernetes, challenges faced, importance of product owners in platform teams, predicting future trends in Kubernetes, impact of eBPF and data integration, and navigating stateful and stateless applications.