Taylor Dolezal is a senior Developer Advocate at Hashicorp and the Kubernetes 1.19 release lead. His desire to give talks and join the CNCF Ambassadors led him to the release team and to his new job. He talks to Adam and Craig about how a TI-83 calculator started him on the path.

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Chatter of the week

• The Moon Disaster deepfake
• Mayfield Lavender Farm

News of the week

• Kubernetes 1.19 release - deferred 24 hours
• Istio 1.7 release!
• New Istio Steering Committee charter
• k3s to join the CNCF Sandbox
• New networking features in GKE
• Anthos announcements from Google Cloud Next
• Google Cloud Code updates
• Serverless Framework Knative component
• VMware vRealize Operations 8.2
• Moving forward from Beta in Kubernetes
• Palinurus, from Mailchannels
• What's new in Falco 0.25
• AWS Controllers for Kubernetes
  • GCP Config Connector
• Carvel
• Operator SDK reaches 1.0
• Thanos and Cortex are both incubating in the CNCF
• The Kubernetes Handbook by Farhan Hasin Chowdhury

Links from the interview

• TI-83 Plus Silver Edition
• Walt Disney Studios
• "Deployed my blog on Kubernetes"
• Hashicorp
  • Terraform
• CNCF Ambassador
• 1.14 release team
• 1.18 release team
  • Episode 96, with Jorge Alarcon
• 1.19 enhancement sheet
  • Ingress goes stable
  • 12 month release support cycle
• Lauri Apple, PgM for SIG Release
• Sidecar containers.. still
• Jeremy Rickard is 1.20 release team lead
  • Episode 61 with Jeremy Rickard and Ralph Squillace
• Nomad, from Hashicorp
• Hashicorp joins the CNCF
• CNCF Cape, as modeled by Lachie Evenson
• Reading list:
  • Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal
  • An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larsen
  • The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming
  • Defending Jacob
• Taylor Dolezal on Twitter