Kubernetes for Humans

Jan 22 2025 34 ep. 31 mins 32
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Real Kubernetes adoption stories from seasoned industry veterans who have the scars to prove it. Join us every Wednesday as we explore the good, the bad, and the ugly sides of technological and cultural transformations in the Cloud-Native era.

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#034 - Infrastructure Automation & the Future of Ops with Cory O'Daniel (Massdriver)

Jan 22 2025 32 mins  
This podcast features Cory O'Daniel, CEO of Massdriver, an infrastructure automation platform. O'Daniel discusses his extensive background in software engineering and cloud operations, highlighting his expertise in Erlang and Elixir programming languages and their applications within Kubernetes. He explains Massdriver's role in simplifying infrastructure management for both develop

#033 - Kubernetes for Humans Podcast with Mirko Novakovic (dash0)

Dec 12 2024 31 mins  
Mirko, co-founder and former CEO of Instana, led the Application Performance Management company for microservices to its successful acquisition by IBM in late 2020. In May 2023, he co-founded Dash0, an OpenTelemetry-native observability solution, furthering his contributions to the observability field. An active angel investor, Mirko supports over 60 tech startups, showcasing his d

#032 - Kubernetes for Humans Podcast with Solomon Hykes (Dagger.io)

Nov 27 2024 35 mins  
Solomon Hykes began his career as a System Administrator at Fairgame in 1999 and later worked as a Junior Software Engineer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center in 2002. In 2003, he became self-employed and worked as a Tech Mentor & Instructor until 2004. Solomon then joined CEIS as a Trusted Infrastructure Engineer from 2004 to 2006. Solomon Hykes then joined SmartJog as a So

#031 - Kubernetes for Humans Podcast with Daniel Bryant (Syntasso)

Nov 17 2024 13 mins  
Daniel Bryant is the Head of Product Marketing at Syntasso. His technical expertise focuses on ‘DevOps’ tooling, cloud/container platforms, and microservice implementations. Daniel is a long-time coder, platform engineer, and Java Champion, contributing to several open-source projects. He also writes for InfoQ, O’Reilly, and The New Stack and regularly presents at internation

#030 - Kubernetes for Humans with Ellen Chisa (Boldstart Ventures)

Aug 07 2024 30 mins  
Ellen is a Partner at boldstart. She joined the boldstart team in January 2021, after having worked with the team as a founder at Dark. Her role allows her to do exactly what she loves – investing and supporting founders building pre-product, dev-focused, enterprise companies. Prior to boldstart and founding Dark, she worked in a variety of early stage product roles: at Lola

#029 - Kubernetes for Humans Podcast with Elizabeth K. Joseph & Holger Wolf (IBM)

Jul 10 2024 31 mins  
Wait, people run Kubernetes on mainframes? Yes, they do! Check out Elizabeth's 2019 KubeCon talk on the matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgyb_9zCaeA Elizabeth K. Joseph After spending a decade doing Linux systems administration, today Elizabeth K. Joseph works as a developer advocate at IBM focused on IBM Z. As a systems administrator, she worked for a small services provi

#028 - Kubernetes for Humans Podcast with Chris Bailey (IBM Instana)

Jun 19 2024 38 mins  
Chris is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Instana, leading the technical strategy and development of Observability and IT Automation solutions at IBM. He is a recognized technology leader across programming languages, runtimes, platforms, observability, and automated IT operations. He has pioneered projects that fundamentally enhanced open-source communities and cloud-nati

#027 - Kubernetes for Humans Podcast with Ben Sigelman (ServiceNow)

May 15 2024 33 mins  
Ben Sigelman is the General Manager of ServiceNow Cloud Observability, which solves for the reliability and performance of cloud and cloud-native applications while broadening the scope and leverage of the broader Now Platform. Previously, he co-founded and was CEO of Lightstep, which ServiceNow acquired in 2021, and co-created both the OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry projects. Ben a

#026 - Kubernetes for Humans Podcast with BJ Badyk (Nexxen)

May 01 2024 33 mins  
BJ Badyk is a human who desires an easier life. Nerd from birth, his curiosity led him down a path through the start of ISPs, Silicon Valley during the dot-com bubble, the last few years of the Playboy brand, and into the world of Adtech. He currently runs the platform engineering team at Nexxen, where they work on unique ways of handling millions of requests per second with Kubern

#025 - Kubernetes for Humans Podcast with Ashan Senevirathne & Joel Studler (Swisscom)

Apr 16 2024 15 mins  
Ashan Senevirathne is an experienced Product Owner and Senior DevOps Engineer with a proven track record in driving innovation and efficiency in telecommunications. Currently with Swisscom, leading the development of a cloud-native orchestration framework for 5G Core using Kubernetes. Adept at optimizing release engineering processes, championing CI/CD workflows, and fostering cros