Podcasts

Stefan Prodan on Progressive Delivery, Flagger, and GitOps

Topics discussed included: how progressive delivery extends the core ideas of continuous delivery; how the open source Flagger Kubernetes operator can be used to implement a progressive delivery strategy via canary releasing with an API gateway or service mesh; and the new “GitOps toolkit” that has evolved from the Flux continuous delivery operator.

Rancher on Hybrid Cloud, Kubernetes at the Edge, and Open Standards

In this podcast, Shannon Williams and Darren Shepherd from Rancher Labs sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: the adoption of hybrid cloud across organisations, the evolution of Kubernetes as a key abstraction for portability and cross-cloud security, running thousands of Kubernetes clusters at the edge, and the value of open standards.

Nora Jones on Resilience Engineering, Mental Models, and Learning from Incidents

In this podcast, Nora Jones, co-founder and CEO at Jeli and co-author of O’Reilly’s “Chaos Engineering: System Resiliency in Practice”, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: chaos engineering and resilience engineering, planning and running effective chaos experiments, and learning from incidents.

Rob Skillington on Metrics Collection, Uber’s M3, and OpenMetrics

In this podcast, Rob Skillington, co-founder and CTO at Chronosphere, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: metrics collection at scale, multi-dimensional metrics and high-cardinality, developer experience with platform tooling, and open standards related to observability.

Johnny Boursiquot on Serverless Go and Site Reliability Engineering at Heroku

In this podcast, Johnny Boursiquot, Site Reliability Engineer at Heroku, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant and discussed topics that included: why Go is a useful language for building Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) style applications; how Heroku implements the role of Site Reliability Engineer (SRE); and why the ability to teach is such a valuable skill.