Tim Kelton is co-founder and cloud architect for Descartes Labs. Prior to starting Descartes Labs, he was a R&D engineer for 15 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory, working on problem areas such as deep learning, space systems, nuclear non-proliferation, and counterterrorism. Tim talks to Craig and Adam about the use of Kubernetes and Istio in geopolitics, machine learning and food supply.

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News of the week

• Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Prometheus Graduation
• OpenMetrics project accepted into CNCF Sandbox
• An Exciting New Direction for the Kubic project
• Demystifying RBAC in Kubernetes
• Kubebuilder 1.0 scaffolds (with a C) Kubernetes APIs and operators
  • Getting Started
  • GitHub
• Operator Lifecycle Management - it’s operators all the way down

Links from the interview

• Descartes Labs
  • Climate Change and Rising Food Prices Heightened Arab Spring
  • Why DARPA Funded a Farm Tech Startup
  • Announcing our $30M Series B
  • Global-scale water monitoring in the cloud
• Beowulf clusters (a Slashdot meme)
• Omega and Borg papers
• Mountain biking in Sedona
• Descartes Labs Python client
• SRE books:
  • Site Reliability Engineering
  • The Site Reliability Workbook - free until August 23
• Descartes Labs talks from Cloud Next ‘18:
  • SRE Quality Operations for Your Services Using the Istio Service Mesh & Stackdriver - with Tim Kelton and Jay Judkowitz from Stackdriver Service Monitoring
  • How Computers See the Earth: A ML Approach to Understanding Satellite Imagery with Kyle Story
  • Building Multi-Tenancy ML Applications with GKE and Istio to Better Understand the Earth with Tim Kelton and Sam Skillman
• Descartes Labs GeoVisual Search - find the squares on the globe that look most like a given square
• Tim Kelton on Twitter