
About this episode
David Pait was a touring musician in pop punk band Sparks The Rescue. Now, he's an SRE working on Kubernetes at an ad-tech company. How did he get there? And if you're looking to change careers, how might you? Craig and Adam dig in.
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Chatter of the week
- Steam Digital Tabletop Fest
- Microsoft Surface (since renamed PixelSense)
- Similo
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News of the week
- Cloud Foundry Doubles Down on Kubernetes
- Akri, from Microsoft
- kube-secret-syncer from Contentful
- Grafana Tempo
- OpenTelemetry Tracing Spec RC by Morgan McLean
- AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
- AWS Load Balancer Controller
- Nydus container image service
- Robin.io Express, free for life
- Verizon Business adds Kubernetes which is powered by Rafay
Links from the interview
- Netsertive
- Sparks the Rescue
- Munki for Mac software deployment
- A considered purchase
- Google's SRE books
- eksctl
- Velero, fka Heptio Ark
- Fixing reuse-values in Helm
- Go listen to Hot Mulligan
- Or Taylor Swift, totally up to you
- David Pait on Twitter
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