Livin' on The Edge: DevTools, APIs, & More

Gareth Rushgrove, Director of Product Management at Snyk, discusses the state of Kubernetes tooling, the role of application platforms and how they should be designed and managed, and the importance of engineering security.

Summary and full transcript available at: https://www.getambassador.io/podcasts/gareth-rushgrove-on-kubernetes-tooling-platforms-and-engineering-security

Katie Gamanji, Cloud Platform Engineer at American Express and TOC member of the CNCF, discusses the building blocks of developer experience related to interacting with Kubernetes clusters. She covers the evolution of tooling from the kubectl that we all know and love, to UI-driven tooling like k9s and Octant, and ultimately to ApplicationOps and GitOps.

Summary and full transcript available at: https://www.getambassador.io/podcasts/katie-gamanji-on-kubernetes-tooling-dx-gitops-and-the-cluster-api

Dave Sudia , Senior DevOps Engineer at GoSpotCheck, discusses creating an effective local developer experience for Kubernetes, migrating away from Heroku and building a Kubernetes-based platform as a service (PaaS), and how his team developed an understanding of all of the personas involved with creating a platform.

Summary and full transcript available at: https://www.getambassador.io/podcasts/dave-sudia-on-kubernetes-local-development-building-a-paas-and-platform-personas

Daniel Mangum, software engineers at Upbound, introduces the Crossplane cloud control plane project, and talks about how engineers can build an internal platform-as-a-service (PaaS). He also shares his insights into the future of multi-cluster Kubernetes.

Summary and full transcript available at: https://www.getambassador.io/podcasts/daniel-mangum-on-crossplane-building-a-paas-and-multi-cluster-kubernetes

Charity Majors, CTO at Honeycomb and author of many great blog posts on observability and leadership, discusses the new approach needed when instrumenting microservices and distributed systems, the benefits of “observability-driven development (ODD)”, and how Honeycomb can help engineers with asking ad hoc questions about their production systems.

Show notes and full transcript available here: https://www.getambassador.io/podcasts/charity-majors-on-instrumenting-systems-observability-driven-development-and-honeycomb

Sam Newman, independent technology consultant and author of Building Microservices, discusses the concept of microservice ownership, explores how to best approach the local development of a microservice-based systems, and shares his opinions on the release trains model of deployment.

Show notes and full transcript available at: https://www.getambassador.io/podcasts/sam-newman-on-microservice-ownership-local-development-and-release-trains

Gene Kim, author of the The Phoenix Project and founder of the DevOps Enterprise Summit, discusses the importance of developer productivity within the larger context of DevOps, and explores the “five ideals” as presented in his latest book, The Unicorn Project. He also outlines how the platform that engineers deploy onto should codify operational best practices that promote flow when testing, deploying, and releasing functionality.

Show notes and full transcript can be found here: https://www.getambassador.io/podcasts/gene-kim-on-developer-productivity-the-five-ideals-and-platforms

Michael Hausenblas, Product Developer Advocate in the AWS Container Service Team, discusses the concept of customer focus (both end-users and internal engineering users), explores how platforms have evolved around Kubernetes, and dives into the use of RBAC and Open Policy Agent (OPA) for cluster access control.

Summary and show notes are available here: https://www.getambassador.io/podcasts/michael-hausenblas-on-customer-focus-building-app-platforms-and-kubernetes-access-control

Kelsey Hightower, technologist at Google, shares his thought on cloud developer experience, modern Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and explores the reality that every organisation is testing in production

Summary and full transcript available at: www.getambassador.io/podcasts/kelsey-hightower-on-developer-experience-paas-and-testing-in-production

Dana Lawson, VP of Engineering at GitHub, discusses the impact that Kubernetes has had on operations, how cloud has impacted the local development experience, and the benefits of constant learning.

Key takeaways and show notes can be found here: https://www.getambassador.io/podcasts/podcats-living-on-the-edge-podcast-6-dana-lawson-on-dana-lawson-on-kubernetes-local-development-loops-and-constant-learning/