Kubernetes for Humans

Dan Ciruli, Senior Director of Product Management at Nutanix, shares his tech journey from startups to giants like Google. He highlights the evolution and dominance of Kubernetes, thanks to the CNCF’s pivotal role. Ciruli reveals insights from his experience at D2IQ and Nutanix’s strategic acquisition to enhance container management. He emphasizes the need for seamless integration of VMs and containers, predicting the Kubernetes API will pave the way for flexible application deployment across infrastructures. His views on IT management preferences paint a compelling future for cloud-native technologies.

This podcast features Cory O'Daniel, CEO of Massdriver, an infrastructure automation platform. O'Daniel discusses his extensive background in software engineering and cloud operations, highlighting his expertise in Erlang and Elixir programming languages and their applications within Kubernetes. He explains Massdriver's role in simplifying infrastructure management for both developers and operations engineers by visually representing infrastructure-as-code. The conversation also touches upon comparisons with other similar platforms like Backstage and Crossplane, emphasizing the need for tailored solutions based on organizational needs and maturity levels. Finally, O'Daniel shares his perspective on future industry trends, predicting a shift towards simpler systems while expressing concern regarding potential security vulnerabilities.   Check out Massdriver's free trial and follow Cory on Linkedin. Until we come full circle on Cory's podcast be sure to give it a listen as well: https://www.platformengineeringpod.com/  

Mirko, co-founder and former CEO of Instana, led the Application Performance Management company for microservices to its successful acquisition by IBM in late 2020. In May 2023, he co-founded Dash0, an OpenTelemetry-native observability solution, furthering his contributions to the observability field. An active angel investor, Mirko supports over 60 tech startups, showcasing his dedication to fostering innovation and emerging technologies.   Follow Mirko on Linkedin and X. 

In this engaging discussion, Solomon Hykes, co-founder of Docker and Dagger.io, shares his remarkable journey in tech. He dives into the challenges he faced while scaling Docker and reveals how Dagger is revolutionizing continuous integration by addressing traditional CI tool limitations. The conversation highlights the importance of community support and innovative solutions for enhancing software development processes. Hykes also discusses how emerging tech like AI is shaping the future of DevOps practices.

Daniel Bryant is the Head of Product Marketing at Syntasso. His technical expertise focuses on ‘DevOps’ tooling, cloud/container platforms, and microservice implementations. Daniel is a long-time coder, platform engineer, and Java Champion, contributing to several open-source projects. He also writes for InfoQ, O’Reilly, and The New Stack and regularly presents at international conferences such as KubeCon, QCon, and JavaOne. In his copious free time, he enjoys running, reading, and traveling.

Ellen Chisa, partner at Boldstart Ventures and former founder of Dark, invests in and supports early-stage developer-focused enterprise companies. She discusses platform engineering and improving developer experience. She warns about tooling sprawl and urges focus on core user problems. She explains what Boldstart looks for in pitches and how founders should assess real business potential.

Elizabeth K. Joseph, IBM Z developer advocate, and Holger Wolf discuss running Kubernetes on mainframes, debunking misconceptions, exploring open-source mainframe community dynamics, and IBM's role in the open source community and acquisitions.

Chris Bailey, IBM CTO for Instana, discusses evolving from Java to Node.js, cloud-native development with Kubernetes, and utilizing AI for efficient IT operations. He explores monitoring tools for dynamic scale, distinguishing vendor capabilities, and managing complex technologies in modern architecture.

Ben Sigelman is the General Manager of ServiceNow Cloud Observability, which solves for the reliability and performance of cloud and cloud-native applications while broadening the scope and leverage of the broader Now Platform. Previously, he co-founded and was CEO of Lightstep, which ServiceNow acquired in 2021, and co-created both the OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry projects. Ben also helped define modern observability with his work on tracing and metrics monitoring at Google (the Monarch and Dapper projects) and was a pioneer in SRE best practices and tooling. He holds dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from Brown University.

BJ Badyk is a human who desires an easier life. Nerd from birth, his curiosity led him down a path through the start of ISPs, Silicon Valley during the dot-com bubble, the last few years of the Playboy brand, and into the world of Adtech. He currently runs the platform engineering team at Nexxen, where they work on unique ways of handling millions of requests per second with Kubernetes. The team was an early adopter of Talos Linux, which they now run at scale. He presented at TalosCon 2023 and continues to pursue simple solutions to complex problems. In his free time, he can be found listening to synth-wave, motorcycling, or roaming around the woods with his ham radios. ------------ TalosCon 2023: https://youtu.be/WpE1EyB3fSE Nexxen: https://nexxen.com Find BJ @ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bjbadyk YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/transmissions