Back in 2012, CERN announced one of its most important achievements; the discovery of the Higgs boson. This work led to the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. Ricardo Rocha, Lukas Heinrich and Clemens Lang of CERN redid the data analysis on top of Kubernetes this year, which Ricardo and Lukas demonstrated at a keynote at KubeCon EU. All three join Adam and Craig for a short physics lesson and a view into computing at the largest scale, for particles at the smallest.

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Chatter of the week

• 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 by NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, and as reported by CBS News in real time
• LEGO Saturn V - mid-completion
• 47th annual Seafair Milk Carton Derby
  • Adam’s pictures, including the Saturn V rocket

News of the week

• IBM announced it has closed its acquisition of Red Hat
• Hashicorp Consul 1.6
• Benchmarking best practices for Istio by Megan O’Keefe, Mandar Jog and John Howard
• IPv6 enhancement proposal for Kubernetes
  • Now passing tests!
• Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine specialization
• Weave Ignite
• Cloud Native CI/CD with OpenShift Pipelines
• k3v
• Avoid time-of-measurement bias with Prometheus
  • Prometheus client tracer for Ruby

Links from the interview

• CERN
  • LHC Computing Grid
  • ATLAS experiment
  • CMS experiment
• Standard model of particle physics
• Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, with Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Dark Matter is a misnomer
• Baryonic matter
• Dark matter
• History of computing at CERN
• Where the web was born
• Large Hadron Collider
• Higgs boson
  • Discovery of the Higgs boson
• Servicing the first web server - Tim Berners-Lee’s NeXT cube
• CERN Program Library (FORTRAN)
• KubeCon EU keynote: Reperforming a Nobel Prize Discovery on Kubernetes
  • Slides
  • YouTube video
• CERN openlab partnership
• ROOT Data Analysis Framework
• Particle physics is embarassingly parallel
  • Kubeflow
  • Spark Operator on Kubernetes
• Open Data Initiative
  • Find a Higgs boson in LHC public data
• Clemens’ shirt
• Our guests on Twitter:
  • Ricardo Rocha
  • Lukas Heinrich
  • Clemens Lange