TFIR: Open Source, Cloud Native & AI/ML

With the explosive growth of Kubernetes adoption, there is a growing demand for training. “People want to use new tool kits that make their jobs easier, but they don’t know how to use them,” said Mark Brandon, founder and CEO of SuperGiant. “We have partnered with the Linux Foundation to create courses that help these users.”

Brandon's team created Supergiant toolkit created to “scratch our their itch,” as they say. Their cloud bills were too high because the hardware utilization was too low. They found that the so-called autoscaling tools from most vendors only meant it was easy to scale up.

"Seriously? Anybody can scale up! Actually, scaling down is what is most important when you are on a budget and paying by the compute hour. At the end of the day, our utilization went from the low teens to over 92% utilization, saving us 50% off our cloud bill, a sum that amounted to over a half million dollars per year. Profit margins doubled, and we had the flexibility to invest in our own product rather than seeing money fly out the door into the pockets of the public cloud providers. This was too good to keep secret," - SuperGiant.

Find more about the Kubernetes training course: https://supergiant.io/training/

With the explosive growth of Kubernetes adoption, there is a growing demand for training. “People want to use new tool kits that make their jobs easier, but they don’t know how to use them,” said Mark Brandon, founder and CEO of SuperGiant. “We have partnered with the Linux Foundation to create courses that help these users.”

Brandon's team created Supergiant toolkit created to “scratch our their itch,” as they say. Their cloud bills were too high because the hardware utilization was too low. They found that the so-called autoscaling tools from most vendors only meant it was easy to scale up.

"Seriously? Anybody can scale up! Actually, scaling down is what is most important when you are on a budget and paying by the compute hour. At the end of the day, our utilization went from the low teens to over 92% utilization, saving us 50% off our cloud bill, a sum that amounted to over a half million dollars per year. Profit margins doubled, and we had the flexibility to invest in our own product rather than seeing money fly out the door into the pockets of the public cloud providers. This was too good to keep secret," - SuperGiant.

Find more about the Kubernetes training course: https://supergiant.io/training/

Limor Fried is an engineer and creator of Adafruit Industries, a New York-based company that builds and sells open source hardware. Limor Fried, then a student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, began selling electronic kits on her website from her own designs in 2005. She later moved to New York City to found Adafruit Industries.

In 2010, Adafruit offered a US$1,000 (equivalent to $1,149 in 2018) reward for whoever could hack Microsoft’s Kinect to make its motion sensing capabilities available for use for other projects. This reward was increased to $2000 and then $3000 following Microsoft’s concerns about tampering.

In 2013, the company had $22 million in revenue; for 2014 increased to $33 million.

Limor Fried is an engineer and creator of Adafruit Industries, a New York-based company that builds and sells open source hardware. Limor Fried, then a student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, began selling electronic kits on her website from her own designs in 2005. She later moved to New York City to found Adafruit Industries.

In 2010, Adafruit offered a US$1,000 (equivalent to $1,149 in 2018) reward for whoever could hack Microsoft’s Kinect to make its motion sensing capabilities available for use for other projects. This reward was increased to $2000 and then $3000 following Microsoft’s concerns about tampering.

In 2013, the company had $22 million in revenue; for 2014 increased to $33 million.

We recorded this interview last year at Open Source Summit.

We recorded this interview last year at Open Source Summit.

In this episode of “Let’s Talk”, Grant Schofield, Director of Infrastructure at Humio talks about how Humio managed to scale Kubernetes to run 100TB of ingest on 25 Humio nodes. We also talked about the evolution and growth of Kubernetes…and we also talked about his hobbies.

Host: Swapnil Bhartiya - founder & editor in chief, TFIR.IO

Grant Schofield, Director of Infrastructure at Humio

Location: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon (Barcelona, Spain)

Date of recording: May 22, 2019

Topics we discussed:

00:00:26 - What has been your experience at KubeCon?

00:01:44 What services does Humio offer?

00:03:30 What Observability trends do you seee

00:05:28 The scalability demo Humio gave at the event

00:06:50 Kubernetes is not a FAD

00:07:44 Hobbies

In this episode of “Let’s Talk”, Grant Schofield, Director of Infrastructure at Humio talks about how Humio managed to scale Kubernetes to run 100TB of ingest on 25 Humio nodes. We also talked about the evolution and growth of Kubernetes…and we also talked about his hobbies.

Host: Swapnil Bhartiya - founder & editor in chief, TFIR.IO

Grant Schofield, Director of Infrastructure at Humio

Location: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon (Barcelona, Spain)

Date of recording: May 22, 2019

Topics we discussed:

00:00:26 - What has been your experience at KubeCon?

00:01:44 What services does Humio offer?

00:03:30 What Observability trends do you seee

00:05:28 The scalability demo Humio gave at the event

00:06:50 Kubernetes is not a FAD

00:07:44 Hobbies

In this episode of “Let’s Talk”, Liran Haimovitch, co-founder of Rookout talks about data collection from modern apps.

Host: Swapnil Bhartiya - founder & editor in chief, TFIR.IO

Guest: Liran Haimovitch, co-founder of Rookout

Location: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon (Barcelona, Spain)

Date of recording: May 22, 2019

Topics we discussed:

00:00:28 What is Rookout

00:00:44 What was the reason you created Rookout?

00:01:32 When you decided to create a company around the project

00:03:50 Rookout is the only company that debugs Serverless

00:05:06 What trends do you see in this space

00:06:00 Your experience at KubeCon?

In this episode of “Let’s Talk”, Liran Haimovitch, co-founder of Rookout talks about data collection from modern apps.

Host: Swapnil Bhartiya - founder & editor in chief, TFIR.IO

Guest: Liran Haimovitch, co-founder of Rookout

Location: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon (Barcelona, Spain)

Date of recording: May 22, 2019

Topics we discussed:

00:00:28 What is Rookout

00:00:44 What was the reason you created Rookout?

00:01:32 When you decided to create a company around the project

00:03:50 Rookout is the only company that debugs Serverless

00:05:06 What trends do you see in this space

00:06:00 Your experience at KubeCon?