Episode Details

About our guest:

Kelsey Hightower has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech, and enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software. Kelsey is a strong open source advocate focused on building simple tools that make people smile. When he is not slinging Go code, you can catch him giving technical workshops covering everything from programming to system administration.

Find our guest on:

• X (Twitter)
• Mastodon

Find us on:

• All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingout
• All of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/adrianamvillela

Show Links:

• CompTIA A+ Certification
• Rube Goldberg Machine
• Heroku
• KornShell
• Capistrano
• Cloud Foundry
• Spring Boot
• Distributed denial of service (DDoS)
• HashiConf
• Mitchell Hashimoto (HashiCorp co-founder)
• Armon Dadgar (HashiCorp co-founder)
• Borg whitepaper
• Sidecar (Kubernetes)
• Nomad on Kubernetes (GitHub)
• Hashinetes Talk (HashiConf 2017)
• From Community to Customers (KubeCon EU Amsterdam 2023)
• Confd
• FOSSDEM (conference)
• Apache License, version 2.0
• RAID
• Westworld Loop

Additional Links:

• Kubernetes the Hard Way (GitHub)

Transcript:

ADRIANA: Hey, y'all, welcome to Geeking Out, the podcast about all geeky aspects of software delivery, DevOps, Observability, reliability, and everything in between. I'm your host, Adriana Villela, coming to you from Toronto, Canada. And today I have the pleasure of geeking out with me, Kelsey Hightower. Welcome, Kelsey.

KELSEY: Happy to be here.

ADRIANA: And where are you calling in from today?

KELSEY: I'm in Washington state, so on the border of Portland, Oregon, and Washington.

ADRIANA: Awesome. Well, let us get to it with the warm up questions. Are you ready?

KELSEY: I am.

ADRIANA: Okay, first question. Are you a lefty or a righty?

KELSEY: Right handed.

ADRIANA: All right. iPhone or Android?

KELSEY: iPhone forever. And I've tried android. Given that I've worked at Google for almost eight years, I've tried, but I'm an iPhone person.