Podcast Episodes

Komodor, with Itiel Shwartz

Episode 153

Debugging Kubernetes often involves correlating what happened just before something went bad. Itiel Shwartz is a co-founder of Komodor, a startup who builds a platform to help with exactly that. We t…

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

SRE for Everyone Else, with Steve McGhee

Episode 152

Steve McGhee worked as an SRE at Google for almost 10 years, then took a job outside the company. He was tasked with recreating "Google Production" and SRE practice from first principals, but with th…

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

Multi-Instance GPUs, with Kevin Klues and Pradeep Venkatachalam

Episode 151

NVIDIA and Google have teamed up to bring the new Multi-Instance GPU feature, launched with the NVIDIA A100, to GKE. We speak to Kevin Klues from NVIDIA and Pradeep Venkatachalam from Google Cloud on…

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

Pixie, with Zain Asgar and Ishan Mukherjee

Episode 150

Pixie Labs built an observabiity platform for Kubernetes, which uses eBPF to get telemetry without user intervention. They were recently acquired by New Relic, who open sourced the Pixie software. Co…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago

Putting on a KubeCon, with Colleen Mickey

Episode 149

A small army of community volunteers is necessary to host a KubeCon, but behind them is a professional events team. Colleen Mickey is Director of Event Services at the Linux Foundation and is respons…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago

Liqo, with Alex Palesandro

Episode 148

Liqo is short for Liquid Computing. It's a tool for extending Kubernetes onto others clusters, developed at the Polytechnic University of Turin. Research assistant and Liqo co-creator Alex Palesandro…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago

Service Level Objectives and Nobl9, with Brian Singer and Kit Merker

Episode 147

Brian Singer co-founded Orbitera, which was acquired by Google in 2016. During that process he met Kit Merker, who was a PM on GKE and the GCP Marketplace, and the two are now working togther on rela…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago

Kubernetes 1.21, with Nabarun Pal

Episode 146

Celebrate the release of Kubernetes 1.21 with release team lead Nabarun Pal from VMware. Nabarun talks about choosing between "hardware" and software, additions and removals from Kubernetes 1.21, and…

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

Weaveworks (part 2), with Alexis Richardson

Episode 145

We conclude our two-part conversation with Weaveworks co-founder Alexis Richardson, picking up when the company received Series A investment in December 2014. Since then, they built projects like Sco…

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

Weaveworks (part 1), with Alexis Richardson

Episode 144

We're trying something new!

In Part 1 of a two-part conversation with Weaveworks co-founder Alexis Richardson, we have a wide ranging conversation about career choices, finance, founding and selling …

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago