Spotify were early adopters of Docker, and wrote their own deployment tool to run it in production. David Xia from the Spotify platform team talks about Spotify’s engineering, challenges, how Helios worked, and migrating from it to Kubernetes. Adam and Craig also give a round up of the week’s news, in the form of a question.

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Chatter of the week

• James Holzhauer cleans the board on Jeopardy!
• Chihuly at Kew Gardens

News of the week

• Introducing GKE Advanced
• Managed certs on GKE Ingress
• Linkerd 2.3
• PodSecurityPolicy support on AKS
• Berglas from Google Cloud Platform
• kubernetes-external-secrets from GoDaddy
• Platform9 open-sources KlusterKit
• CNCF and Alibaba offer free Cloud Native training to Chinese developers
• Tinder’s move to Kubernetes
• kube-iptables-tailer
• The future of Cloud Providers in Kubernetes
• Pod priority and preemption
• Istio observability with Go and gRPC/protobuf microservices
  • Beating JSON performance with protobuf

Links from the interview

• Spotify
  • This podcast on Spotify
  • Spotify open source utilities on GitHub
• Helios
  • 2014 introduction video with Rohan Singh
• Apollo: Java libraries for microservices
• GKE Usage Metering: Whose line item is it anyway? with Madhu Yennamani and Yang Guan from Google, and David Xia from Spotify
  • Episode 40 with Madhu Yennamani
• GCP Firewall Enforcer
• David Xia on Twitter