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AI, DevOps, and Kubernetes: Kelsey Hightower on What's Next [video](youtube.com)
5 points by kelseyhightower 9mo ago|1 comments
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by kelseyhightower 9mo ago
It's rare that I get to reflect back on my entire tech career and my philosophy towards work and life, but this interview captures it perfectly.
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Run Nix Based Environments in Kubernetes(flox.dev)
111 points by kelseyhightower 10mo ago|48 comments
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by kelseyhightower 11mo ago
Google Cloud products including GKE (Kubernetes), Cloud Run/Functions, the gcloud CLI, and a number of other utilities and control plane components sit it direct revenue paths. In the case of Cloud Run/Functions (Go support) and G
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A World Without Configuration Chaos: The Configuration Control Plane(cue.dev)
6 points by kelseyhightower 11mo ago|3 comments
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by kelseyhightower 5y ago
The one benefit you get is protection from bugs in Kubernetes itself and a reduced blast radius. Even if you could produce a secure and H/A cluster, you still leave yourself open to Kubernetes bugs and configuration mistakes such as ad
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by kelseyhightower 5y ago
I'm currently testing our (GCP) solution to the CPU throttling you've highlighted. I've been using Vault[1] as my test case, and so far so good. Be on the look out for early sign up if you're interested. [1] https:&#x2F
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by kelseyhightower 5y ago
Stay tuned. A lot of the tech behind El Carro can be extracted into a generic controller and serve as the foundation for other databases including Postgres.
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El Carro: Run Oracle Databases on Kubernetes(github.com)
32 points by kelseyhightower 5y ago|23 comments
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Make Boring Plans(skamille.medium.com)
183 points by kelseyhightower 6y ago|22 comments
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Infrastructure Automation with Configuration as Data(cloud.google.com)
2 points by kelseyhightower 6y ago|0 comments
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by kelseyhightower 6y ago
Cloud run is attempting to enable that "Just Works" experience, but we are trying to do it by leveraging the best of open source, and native client libraries. Feels like we are getting close and I'll be sure to share this fee
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by kelseyhightower 6y ago
Thanks for your comment. This is something the team keeps top of mind and influences our decisions and road maps. Please continue to keep us honest here. I'll get others to weight in on this, but here's my personal opinion on the
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by kelseyhightower 6y ago
Cold starts can be one of the biggest trade offs when adopting a Serverless platform like Cloud Run, especially with 30 second start up times. We introduced minimum instances[1], currently in beta, which will allow you to specify a minimum
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by kelseyhightower 6y ago
McDonald's was my starting point. It's where I developed much of my work ethic and my first taste of leadership in a professional setting. I was a shift manager for most of that time and remember learning about the restaurant busi
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by kelseyhightower 6y ago
1) The answer to this lies in the question. Agile is a practice and it'll take some to get up to speed. One path I took was taking jobs in tech support, answering phones calls, and finding opportunities to engage with the product teams
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by kelseyhightower 6y ago
Not at all! I read it as an honest question so I answered it.
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by kelseyhightower 6y ago
I could not fit the entire title "From McDonald's to Google: How Kelsey Hightower became one of the most respected people in cloud computing" when submitting the post.
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by kelseyhightower 6y ago
Ronnie taught me that making people smile should be part of the job. We both learned that you really need to understand the world around you if you want get people to laugh at it.
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by kelseyhightower 6y ago
I read it for the first time today like everyone else and love the way it turned out. A lot of the technical stuff has been covered in other places. Tom pulled on a different thread, one that even taught me some things about myself. Tom did
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by kelseyhightower 6y ago
This is a side of me I would like more people to see. The whole person. So I submitted the article. I grew up in the South and don't live in the Valley. It required a bit of humility to even share this side of me, it's very person
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by kelseyhightower 6y ago
Make it happen.
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by kelseyhightower 6y ago
Many of those Tweets reminded me how much I've grown as a person. Those Tweets reminded me that I made the right choice treating everyone with respect and in some cases helped them in their own careers. It was my way of saying thank yo
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by kelseyhightower 6y ago
McDonald's helped me establish a work ethic and learn what it means to be a professional and earn a paycheck. I was a shift manager in the 11th grade so I had to learn how to manage people and make sure the numbers added up at the end
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by kelseyhightower 6y ago
Maybe I can help fill the gaps. I ran my own computer store with a small IT consultancy attached to it for a few years. Then I chose to pivot and get a "real job". Things change once you're married with a child on the way. Li
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by kelseyhightower 6y ago
It's me, Kelsey Hightower.
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From McDonald's to Google(protocol.com)
603 points by kelseyhightower 6y ago|151 comments
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Show HN: Badger – Generate build status images for Google Cloud Build(github.com)
2 points by kelseyhightower 6y ago|0 comments
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by kelseyhightower 6y ago
Coinbase built and maintains their own platform that's working for them. Coinbase provided an analysis worth studying. The major takeaway for me: asking people to manage their own Kubernetes cluster is like asking people to manage thei
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by kelseyhightower 6y ago
"Unfortunately I forgot the exact quote and the author. (If anyone knows please let me know)." I said something similar in 2018[1], "You haven't mastered a tool until you understand when it should not be used." [1]:

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