Weaveworks (part 1), with Alexis Richardson

We're trying something new!

In Part 1 of a two-part conversation with Weaveworks co-founder Alexis Richardson, we have a wide ranging conversation about career choices, finance, founding and selling tech companies, and the dangers of being pigeon-holed based on the first project your company releases.

Next week we'll finish the conversation by talking about Weave projects like Flux and Cortex, as well as their SaaS offerings, the founding of the CNCF, and whether Weave built the platform they set out to build when they started 7 years ago.

Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know:

• web: kubernetespodcast.com
• mail: [email protected]
• twitter: @kubernetespod

Chatter of the week

• Evergiven Everywhere
• "Reply all" at the State Department
• Evergreen truck blocks Chineses highway
• Little ship stuck in Littlehampton harbour
• Vote for the name of the Seattle Tunnel Boring Machine
  • Sir Mix-a-Lot

News of the week

• Outdated; a new open source project from Replicated
  • Episode 143, with Grant Miller
• Kubestr by Kasten by Veeam, by golly
• The Aerospike Kubernetes Operator
• Tanzu Kubernetes Grid v1.3
• Red Hat OpenShift on AWS is GA
• Quay.io is changing login methods
• Container vulnerability scanning from Sophos
• Kubecost raises $5.5m in funding
  • Episode 124, with Webb Brown
• Security Updates in Docker by Itamar Turner-Trauring

Links from the interview

• Mathematical logic at Oxford University
  • Stewart Butterfield on philosophy
  • Computer Literacy Project
  • Jeremy Ruston's BBC Micro Revealed and 80s hair
  • Haskell, Orwell and Miranda
  • OCaml and Standard ML
• 1998 Russian financial crisis
• Metalogic Oy
• Cohesive Networks
• AMQP
• RabbitMQ
  • NZ Easter Bunny hunt
  • Matthias Radestock
  • Erlang
  • ejabberd
  • Matthew Sackman and Tony Garnock-Jones
  • Open Telecom Platform (OTP)
  • VMware acquires Rabbit Technologies
  • SpringSource previously Interface21
• Weaveworks
  • Introductory blog
  • "Zettio introduces Weave"
  • Weave Net
• Alexis Richardson on Twitter