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#55 May 28, 2019

Solo.io, with Idit Levine

Solo.io was founded in 2017 by this week’s guest, Idit Levine. She talks to Craig and Adam about API gateways, service meshes, and lots of project names with two O’s in them.

#54 May 21, 2019

Tech, Life, and KubeCon EU, with Bryan Liles

Bryan Liles is a Senior Staff Engineer at VMware, the program co-chair for this week’s KubeCon EU, a sought-after speaker, and a minority in an industry with few people who look like him. He shares his story with Craig and Adam, who also bring you the week’s news from KubeCon EU and beyond.

#53 May 14, 2019

Optiva and Arctiq, with Dan Dyer and Kyle Bassett

Dan Dyer is Senior Vice President of Technical Product Management at Optiva, a provider of business support services to the telecommunications industry. Optiva have been moving services to Kubernetes, and with the help of Kyle Bassett and team from Arctiq, a cloud-native consultancy, kicking the tyres of Anthos and GKE On-Prem. Adam and Craig learn about this journey from Dan and Kyle, and discuss dragons and foxes.

#52 May 7, 2019

AutoTrader UK, with Russell Warman and Karl Stoney

AutoTrader UK were an early adopter of Istio. Adopting it to meet GDPR requirements for encrypted traffic, Head of Infrastructure and Operations Russell Warman and lead engineer Karl Stoney have gone on to use it to reduce resource usage, and thus cost, as well as uncover bugs in their applications. They talk to Craig about it, while Adam serves his country.

#51 April 30, 2019

KeyBank, with Gabe Jaynes

Gabe Jaynes is a DevOps Architect at KeyBank, an American retail bank. KeyBank were an early adopter of containers, and Gabe talks about the reasons they undertook this transformation. Craig and Adam also celebrate our first birthday and spoil the concept of spoilers.

#50 April 23, 2019

Spotify, with David Xia

Spotify were early adopters of Docker, and wrote their own deployment tool to run it in production. David Xia from the Spotify platform team talks about Spotify’s engineering, challenges, how Helios worked, and migrating from it to Kubernetes. Adam and Craig also give a round up of the week’s news, in the form of a question.

#49 April 16, 2019

Live from Google Cloud Next '19, with Eric Brewer

Live from Google Cloud Next ‘19 the KPfG team presents a fireside chat with Eric Brewer, our first guest with their own Wikipedia page. Eric devised the CAP theorem for distributed systems, based on his work at early search company Inktomi and UC Berkeley. He was the person who announced Kubernetes to the world almost 5 years ago, and has been working on Google’s cluster and compute infrastructure since 2011.

#48 April 9, 2019

Anthos Migrate, with Issy Ben-Shaul

Anthos (previously known as Cloud Services Platform) has just gone GA at Google Cloud Next. One of its new features is Anthos Migrate, a tool for migrating monolithic apps directly to containers. Issy Ben-Shaul is a Director of Software Engineering at Google Cloud and led the team building Anthos Migrate. He talks to Craig and Adam about it.

#47 April 3, 2019

Tekton, with Kim Lewandowski

Tekton brings Kubernetes-style resources for declaring CI/CD-style pipelines. Kim Lewandowski is the Google Cloud product manager who recently announced it. She talks to Adam about the project while Craig sneaks in some vacation at the cafes of New Zealand.

#46 March 27, 2019

Kubernetes 1.14, with Aaron Crickenberger

Kubernetes 1.14 is out! Your hosts talk to release manager Aaron Crickenberger of Google Cloud about the release process, working with Kubernetes Enhancement Proposals (KEPs), cat t-shirts, and being bearded on face vs. at heart.