Podcasts

Katie Gamanji on Condé Nast’s Kubernetes Platform, Self-Service, and the Federation and Cluster APIs

In this podcast, Daniel Bryant sat down with Katie Gamanji, Cloud Platform Engineer at Condé Nast International. Topics covered included: exploring the architecture of the Condé Nast Kubernetes-based platform; the importance of enabling self-service deployment for developers; and how the Kubernetes’ Federation API and Cluster API may enable more opportunities for platform automation.

Josh Wills on Building Resilient Data Engineering and Machine Learning Products at Slack

Josh Wills, a software engineer working on data engineering problems at Slack, discusses the Slack data architecture and how they build and observe their pipelines.

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.

Camille Fournier on Platform Engineering, Engineering Ladders, and Her Book “The Managers Path”

On the podcast this week, Charles Humble talks to Camille Fournier about running a platform team, how her current role differs from the CTO role she had at Rent the Runway, the skills developers need to acquire as they move from engineering to management positions, trends like Holacracy, and her book "The Manager's Path".