In this episode, Dave interviews Dan Ciruli, senior director of product management at Nutanix (and ex-Googler), about the history of Kubernetes. They discuss:

• What was going on at Google that led to the creation of Kubernetes
• The importance of getting the industry to agree on a non-vendor-specific way of deploying workloads
• Initial concerns from VM vendors about being replaced by containers
• The story behind Kubernetes' name and logo

In this episode, Dave Rubinstein interviews William Morgan, CEO and founder of Buoyant, the company behind the open source project Linkerd.

They discuss:

• What's new in Linkerd 2.18
• What service meshes are
• Why Buoyant brought Linkerd to the CNCF

This episode originally aired July 19, 2024, but it's still relevant today as we figure out how to meet the demands AI is placing on the power grid. 

In this episode, ITOps Times editor-in-chief Dave Rubinstein interviews Jason Carolan, chief innovation officer at Flexential, about the increased energy demands created by AI. Jason believes nuclear energy might be the solution to meeting the growing power needs. 

Key talking points include:

• Why there's increased demand on the grid now
• The role nuclear power could play
• The challenges to taking a nuclear approach
• Figuring out where to put new nuclear plants 

In this episode, David Rubinstein interviews Jeremy Edberg, CEO of DBOS, about the current state of serverless.

They discuss:

• Why serverless adoption has stagnated
• The complexity of serverless architecture
• What needs to change to increase adoption

In this episode, Jenna Barron interviews Andrew Shikiar, CEO and executive director of FIDO Alliance. They discuss the state of passkey adoption in the industry today and how organizations can prepare for adopting them.

Key talking points include:

• Why passkeys are more secure than passwords
• How widespread their adoption is 
• Ways organizations can prepare for broader passkey adoption

Visit Passkey Central for more resources on passkeys: https://www.passkeycentral.org/home 

Read transcript here: https://www.itopstimes.com/itsec/qa-the-state-of-passkey-adoption/

In this episode, David Rubinstein interviews Ajit Sancheti, general manager of next generation SIEM at CrowdStrike, about why legacy SIEMs are struggling to keep up with the speed and sophistication of modern threats.

They discuss:

• The limitations of legacy SIEMs
• What factors are prompting the need for new solutions
• The role of AI in next-gen SIEMs

In this episode, Dave Rubinstein interviews Andrew Rynhard, founder and CTO of Sidero Labs. They discuss:

• How operating system architecture plays a role in the complexity of managing distributed Kubernetes
• The importance of avoiding accidentally introducing unnecessary complexity
• Talos Linux, and how it helps reduce complexity 

In this episode, we speak with Gerald Combs, director of open source at Sysdig, and Loris Degioanni, founder and CTO of Sysdig. They both co-created Wireshark and are now releasing a new tool called Stratoshark for inspecting cloud-native environments.

We discuss: 

• What the technology landscape looked like when they created Wireshark in the 90s
• Why they created Stratoshark
• The connection between the two tools
• The future of Stratoshark

You can learn more about Stratoshark and get a demo of it at SharkFest'25 in Richmond, VA from June 14-19. Register here: https://sharkfest.wireshark.org/sfus/

In this episode, we interview Scott McCarty, senior principal product manager of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, about what we can look forward to in 2025 when it comes to containers. 

Key talking points include:

• Cross-platform use cases for containers
• Bending containers to do more for us
• An overview of bootc and how it fits into the future of containers

In this episode, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Taylor Dolezal, head of ecosystem at the CNCF, about the organization's recent Technology Landscape Radar report. 

Recorded the week following KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, the conversation covers: 

• The key findings from the report
• The different levels of project maturity at the CNCF
• The importance of interoperability 

Note: This will be the final episode of Get With IT released in 2024. We'll be back in early January 2025!