Podcasts

Anne Currie Discusses Cloud Providers and the Environmental Impact of Software

Charles Humble talks to Anne Currie from Container Solutions, exploring the environmental impact of technology. They look at how technology compares to other industries such as aviation and farming, how the big cloud providers compare in terms of their commitments to reducing carbon emissions, and the impact of the choices made by individual developers and software architects.

Kelsey Hightower on Extending Kubernetes, Event-Driven Architecture, and Learning

In this podcast, Daniel Bryant sat down with Kelsey Hightower, staff developer advocate at Google. Topics covered included: the extensibility of Kubernetes, and why it has become the platform that other platforms are being built on top of; creating event-driven architectures and deploying these onto Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms like the Kubernetes-based Knative and Google Cloud Run.

Bryan Liles on Making Kubernetes Easier for Developers, the CNCF, and “Serverless”

In this podcast, Daniel Bryant sat down with Bryan Liles, senior staff engineer at VMware. Topics covered included: the challenges with deploying applications into Kubernetes, using the open source Octant tool to increase a user’s understanding of Kubernetes clusters, and how “serverless” technologies may influence the future approaches to building software.

Ryan Kitchens on Learning from Incidents at Netflix, the Role of SRE, and Sociotechnical Systems

In today’s podcast, we sit down with Ryan Kitchens, a senior site reliability engineer and member of the CORE team at Netflix. This team is responsible for the entire lifecycle of incident management at Netflix, from incident response to memorialising an issue.

Armon Dadgar on HashiCorp Research, the Evolution of Infrastructure Tooling, and Standardisation

On this podcast, we’re talking to Armon Dadgar, co-founder and CTO of HashiCorp. We discuss the formation of the HashiCorp research division and explore some of the computer science research underpinning Consul and Nomad. We also cover the challenges of supporting teams when they are looking to embrace new modes of working with dynamic infrastructure.