Podcasts

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.

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.

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.

Event Sourcing: Bernd Rücker on Architecting for Scale

Bernd Rücker talks to Wesley Reisz about Microservice Orchestration, CQRS and Event Sourcing

Matt Klein on Envoy Mobile, Platform Complexity, and a Universal Data Plane API for Proxies

In this podcast we sit down with Matt Klein, software plumber at Lyft and creator of Envoy, and discuss topics including the continued evolution of the popular proxy, the strength of the open source Envoy community, and the value of creating and implementing standards throughout the technology stack.