In this episode we speak to 3 of the principles of Raft (Bhaarat Sharma, Barak Stout, and Paul Otto) talk about their approach to Govtech! They discuss how they work with government agencies (Such as Platform One and many others) to adopt open source projects like Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Flux, and others. They also provide some additional detail around Raft's Diversity and Engineering Principles.

Holden Karau is transgender Canadian, and an active open source contributor. She is a Spark committer and co-author of Learning Spark and High Performance Spark and has contributed to many cloud native and open source projects.

Holden wrote a book on Kubeflow a Machine Learning Toolkit for Kubernetes, and we talk about their journey, apache spark, Canada, Kubeflow, plushies and so much more!

Dream Guest... Elan Feingold and Plex revolutionized home media. In this episode we talk about starting plex, the tech, the plex community, plexamp, and future innovation.

Elan was open, funny, brilliant, and went truly deep on Plex. You are in for a treat with this episode!

Matt Moore is the man who built tools still in use at Microsoft and bootstrapped Google Container Registry for google before being one of the initial creators and overall technical oversight for the Knative Project. In this interview Matt and I talk about his journey, what is serverless, what is knative and how it can help you, and we finish up with a lively discussion to perhaps one of the greatest games to come out in the last 5 years The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Matt Moore is a humble treasure and im glad you all will get to see just a glimpse of his technical knowledge and amazing personality.

In this episode of the popcast, we speak to Chief Sofware Officer for the United States Air Force, Nicolas M. Chaillan. Nicolas' journey is incredible. At age 7 he started programming and at 15 had his own company. He currently runs a secure program called Platform One, Cloud One, and DSOP that manages Software Factories for Development teams so they can focus on building mission applications among many other things.

Nicolas and I ran through the gamut of discussion points from Tintin to CNCF to Platform One, and Security and Open source in the US Government.

Phil Estes "The King of containerd" joins us as we discuss his journey in the cloud native and the success of the containerd project from inception to its stance as an amazing container runtime for kubernetes. He discusses how being open source made him an better developer and much much more! Phil Estes is cloud native royalty and i had a great time catching up with him

Year End look back with clips from the Who's Who in Kubernetes and Cloud Native from Season 1 of the POPCASTPOP. Please like Kelsey Hightower, Priyanka Sharma, Clayton Coleman, Sarah Novotny, Joe Beda, Mitchell and Armon from Hashicorp and many many others.

Episode 50! The Matriarch of the Kubernetes community Sarah Novotny joins us and discusses the beginnings of Kubernetes, empowering others, nurturing community along with her impressive journey. She has built infrastructure and community in open source for Amazon, Google and is now at Microsoft and sits on the board of The Linux Foundation

The community should thank Sarah Novotny for all she has done to build all the values we hold dear. I could not have asked for a better guest and know you all will enjoy this our 50th episode!

On today's episode we talk to a master of authentication in the Kubernetes space Marc Boorshtein from Tremolo Security. We go through what enterprises face when they try and implement authentication/rbac in Kubernetes and Marc provides some great advice. We also discuss his book (link below) at length and how it will help folks using docker and Kubernetes in the enterprise! We even had a great conversation about the NY Yankees and Marc told a fantastic story. Watch/Listen to all of this one there is a lot of amazing in this one!

Marc is a fantastic person in this community you all should check out his company and his book.

What do holograms and tweaking Kubernetes configurations have in common??? Stormforge thats what. StormForge delivers Kubernetes performance testing and optimization, powered by machine learning. So your teams deliver flawless app performance without overprovisioning, and with less manual labor.

In this episode we talk to Ofer Idan about his journey, how holograms and machine learning led to Stormforge.io can help you in your devops+k8s aspirations! I was absolutely floored but what it does and you should check them out!