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.

Michelle Krejci on Moving to Microservices: Visualising Technical Debt, Kubernetes, and GraphQL

In this podcast, Daniel Bryant spoke to Michelle Krejci, service engineer lead at Pantheon, about the Drupal and Wordpress webops-based company’s move to a microservices architecture.

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.

Oliver Gould on the Three Pillars of Service Mesh, SMI, and Making Technology Bets

In this podcast, we summarise the evolution of the service mesh concept, with a focus on the three pillars: visibility, security, and reliability. We explore the new traffic “tap” feature within Linkerd that allows near real-time in-situ querying of metrics and discuss how to implement network security by leveraging the primitives like Service Account provided by Kubernetes.