Komodor is the first Kubernetes native troubleshooting platform out there! They exist to help customers troubleshoot K8S faster and more efficiently. 

Itiel and his talented team help companies understand the complexity to Kubernetes and how the system is behaving, and then provide solutions to the problems. Rather than simply solving your problem, they solve it AND track all of the changes across your entire K8S stack and then analyze the ripple effect, leaving you with actionable context. 

Itiel is a techie at heart having started his career with eBay, and then moving to Forter. Before founding Komodor he spent 2 years as Rookout's first developer. 

2022 has been a big year for Itiel and Komodor but even more good things are coming including a big open source project, helping the non K8S experts gain control over their clusters and being much more visible in the community by giving back. 

Give them a follow and you contact Itiel on [email protected] 

In this episode we had a very interesting chat with Anaïs about Aqua Security and Trivy - the vulnerability and misconfiguration scanning tool. 

"Security scanning for all" - that's Anaïs' perfect world. 

As a DevAdvocate she empowers engineers to use Aqua for security ease. 

In this chat we also uncover the differences (and they are different) in Community Manager vs Developer Advocate vs Developer Evangelist vs Developer Relations. 

Anaïs has a lot of good content and you can find most of it on her Twitter bio https://twitter.com/urlichsanais

Jay is Appvia's Chief Operating Officer and one of the Co-Founders and in this episode he discusses the reasons why you should, and why you shouldn't use Kubernetes.

Appvia are on a mission to reduce technical debt and speed up delivery for their clients through innovative approaches in tooling and through leveraging smart cloud techniques. 

Kubernetes is often the answer, but not always. Jay is an advocate for Kubernetes but also appreciates that the container orchestration system isn't the only answer. 

Appvia are an award winning company who have some of the most talented engineers in the business, find out more about them here https://www.appvia.io/ 

They also have a fantastic blog with tons of useful information, 2 articles that accompany this podcast can be found in the links below:- 

https://www.appvia.io/blog/5-reasons-you-should-use-kubernetes

https://www.appvia.io/blog/5-reasons-you-should-not-use-kubernetes

All the way from NZ, Neil joined us to talk all things Portainer, easing the operational burden for organizations adopting container tech and becoming a nomad. 

Portainer is now in it's 6th year of build & scale and is designed for IT Ops teams. 

Over the next 40 minutes we cover rebranding people's perception of the company, entering industry 4.0 and what's next for the fast-growing business. Interestingly, Neil is effectively running 2 businesses under the Portainer header as his client base is so diverse - they would typically fall into either the Edge or the DC side of the business. 

Like most start-ups, Portainer was born from an idea that Neil had while working in a previous role. What started as a side hustle has now turned into a well known logo among the Cloud Native community and the next 12 months look bright. 

You can reach out to Neil via LinkedIn, his email or he can also be found behind the Portainer Twitter handle most days. 

It's an incredibly exciting time for Stackwatch, not only have they recently announced OpenCost but they have so much more coming down the pipeline that I wasn't able to get an exclusive on! Instead Thomas tells us about the FinOps platform - KubeCost, how they're saving tens of millions of dollars for their clients and how the business is growing. 

Thomas also gives us the background on his experience and what lead to him becoming Stackwatch's Engineering Manager. 

You can find the company here https://www.linkedin.com/company/stackwatch/ 

And Thomas here https://www.linkedin.com/in/teevans3/ 

Follow #DevOpsForEveryone on LinkedIn. 

Cory O'Daniel is the CEO and one of 3 Co-Founders of Massdriver - the company that helps engineers deploy best-practice cloud architectures with integrated observability and security without being a DevOps expert. 

In this chat we hear about Cory's journey to becoming CEO, we hear how they treat Kubernetes as the 4th cloud and we find out what it was like to raise investment in this economy. 

As well as CEO and Co-Founder, Cory is an Elixir specialist lending his knowledge and expertise to the continued development of Massdriver's platform. 

Reach out to Cory via LinkedIn and check out Massdriver here https://www.massdriver.cloud/ 

Patrick is an experienced enterprise SRE who was good at breaking things. Nowadays he is Chief Technology Officer at a fast and furious start-up called StormForge. 

The business was originally a Machine Learning org and today they are still that but so much more. For one they're using AI to benefit people, not replace us. 

In this chat we uncover some shocking stats like the average cost saving StormForge achieves for their clients. It's amazing numbers! 

We talk over-provisioning and under-provisioning and the benefits of each. 

And Patrick also tells us about the coolest AI project I have heard of involving President Barack Obama. 

Reach Patrick on Twitter @iampatrickb or via LinkedIn. 

Referenced in the chat: 

https://www.stormforge.io/case-studies/acquia/ 

Jim is the Co-Founder and CEO of Striveworks; the MLOps company trying to make the MLOps process transparent. 

In this conversation Jim gives us a simple answer to 'what is MLOps?', he outlines the vision for the business and fills us in on what the end goal is. 

Jim is a Data Scientist at heart with a PhD in Machine Learning. He takes us on his journey of the idea behind Striveworks, the notion of disappearing MLOps and how the business was doing MLOps before it was cool. 

To pick Jim's brain on Striveworks and MLOps reach out to him on LinkedIn. 

Jon leads the UK & Ireland compute business for Amazon Web Services and this talk we cover: 

And so much more. 

If you like autonomous vehicles and the possibilities around automation, then you'll like the first third of this episode! 

A cool Amazon product that you should check out is https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/

And in a follow up episode with Jon's colleague we'll also be discussing https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/

Sean guides us through Spacelift's Kubernetes & Serverless journey and we talk about the blog doing the rounds, check it out in full here https://spacelift.io/blog/aws-lambda-migration 

Besides supporting the best football team in the world, Sean is also a very knowledge guy in the K8S and Cloud-Native world. 

We find out what problems Spacelift is solving, we hear about their USP (which everybody needs in this noisy world) and we find out what's on horizon for the business. 

Get in touch with Sean via the usual social platforms and I'm at [email protected]