Kubernetes for Humans

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.

Christoph Held, Cloud Architect at Allianz and Kubernetes Dashboard project leader, shares insights on Kubernetes history, challenges in dashboard development, role of service mesh, Istio vs. eBPF for network enhancements, and Kubernetes in enterprise platform teams.