Tim Banks will optimize your modem baud rate and kick your ass—respectfully. Then they'll teach you how to be a better person. Their career includes systems, sales, and many other facets of business, but who they are is not defined by what they do for money. Join us on this wonderful conversation about understanding who you are and bringing your whole self. Of course it wouldn't be Fork Around and Find Out without some hot takes on AI and the future of tech.

Links

• Tim's Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/elchefe.me
• tim-banks.ghost.io
• Ship It! Episode https://changelog.com/shipit/116

Sidero and Oxide Kubecon NA event registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oxidesidero-at-kubecon-north-america-2025-tickets-1538869282449

Duffie has lived through a lot. From multiple startup exits to big company changes. He stays grounded by remembering where he came from and what's important—people. This episode is full of career and life advice from one of the kindest people in the industry.

Links

Unfortunately, we don't have links for most of the companies Duffie talks about because they've all been acquired. CoreOS, Heptio, and Isovalent are all either gone or part of bigger companies now.

• CoreOS -> Red Hat -> IBM
• Heptio -> VMware -> Broadcom
• Isovalent -> Cisco

Thankfully the Isovalent products are still going strong. Check them out at isovalent.com

David has worked on a lot of cool tech you know like Kubernetes and Kubeflow, and he's usually a few years ahead of the game. So getting to catch up with him about what he's working on now is probably something you'll want to know about before you have these problems. He has great insights in how to get companies to support open source and how Kubernetes has evolved over time.

Links

• David on Bluesky 
• Expanso
• An oral history of Kubernetes
• ConfigHub
• PetSet GitHub issue

What is it like to ship software in big tech? Sean gives us his experience from multiple companies and what he’s learned. It's probably not what you think. It doesn't matter if you're vibe coding features or bash-ing devops, we all need to remember why we were hired.

Links:

• https://www.seangoedecke.com/how-to-ship/

https://fafo.fm/store

This Episode has a full spread of FAFOFM topics. Ellie has a breadth of knowledge across cloud, on-prem, hardware, and—of course—Kubernetes. We dive into some of the new hardware available as well as the importance of hardware to train the next generation of engineers. A full cycle of interests we think you'll love. 🧡

Links

• https://ellie.fm
• https://bsky.app/profile/ellie.fm
• https://devzero.io
• https://www.cloudlab.us/
• https://github.com/clastix/kamaji

https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/

Today's history lesson is about the non-markup language platform engineers love to hate, YAML Ain't Markup Language (YAML). Ingy tells us all about how and why it started, how it evolved over time, and what's happening next with YS.

Note: sorry about the audio issues in this episode. We did our best to clean it up.

Links:

• https://helmys.org/
• https://yamlscript.org/
• https://exercism.org/
• https://yamlscript.org/ingydotnet/

It's easy to talk about everything when you've been writing software for half a century. Bhaskar has some amazing insights from his impressive career building software using everything from punch cards to AI. If you like learning about the past to understand the future, this is an episode you don't want to miss.

Links

• YottaDB https://yottadb.com

Angie gives us a crash course on Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how you can get started using it with goose. We also talk about other projects Angie's worked on at Block and what drives her to keep learning new things in tech.

Links

• Angie's website: https://angiejones.tech
• Goose https://github.com/block/goose
• Angie's Modern Day Mashups talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZbXq5qu55U

After 25 years in tech it’s hard not to coast. Adriana has come from writing word docs for the ops team to deploy software, through Devops, and now has a focus on OTel and Kubernetes. How do we get more people from 100 to 400 levels and why is there no content in between? And why we need junior engineers to make our senior engineers better.

Links

• Bluefin wallpapers https://github.com/ublue-os/packages/tree/main/packages/bluefin/wallpapers
• Justin’s talk with balloons and a spreadsheet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0mWGaBawR8
• Adriana on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/adrianamvillela.bsky.social

Disaster recovery is more than automation and infrastructure. There's a lot that goes into your services and some of those things can't be defined as code or automated. When was the last time you restored your database from a backup? How do you use least privileged access when your region changes and how do you even know you're having a disaster. Seth has a lot of experience and a ton of good insights in this episode.

Links

• Seth’s Linktree https://linktr.ee/setheliot
• arpio https://arpio.io/services/
• EKS Auto example repo https://community.aws/content/2sV2SNSoVeq23OvlyHN2eS6lJfa/amazon-eks-auto-mode-enabled-build-your-super-powered-cluster
• Disaster recovery white paper https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/disaster-recovery-workloads-on-aws/disaster-recovery-workloads-on-aws.html
• Disaster recovery blog series https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/tag/disaster-recovery-series/
• Ship it! with Pete Naylor https://changelog.com/shipit/127
• Engineering Resilient Systems on AWS by Jennifer Moran https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Resilient-Systems-AWS-Resilience/dp/1098162420
• Four Things Everyone Should Know About Resilience https://community.aws/content/2duX45O6vKOE7cmmXQ9Nj3tO3bL/should-know-resilience