Kubernetes is an anti-platform

Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

Adam Jacob remains optimistic about the future for infrastructure and is building new ideas to make it better.

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Featuring:

• Adam Jacob – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• System Initiative

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapitres

1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sentry (00:00:53)

https://sentry.io/

3. Bring back old Twitter (00:02:42)

4. Adam's hot take (00:09:58)

5. Infrastructure is binary (00:16:59)

6. Sponsor: Fly.io (00:22:16)

https://fly.io/

7. You're just holding it wrong (00:26:01)

8. You need good friends (00:29:51)

9. Learning from System initiative (00:33:54)

10. Unexpected difficulties (00:38:06)

11. Use it how you want to use it (00:39:51)

12. The scope of System Initiative (00:42:17)

13. Everyone can do infrastructure (00:48:24)

14. Sponsor: Retool (00:54:16)

https://retool.com/changelog

15. System Initiative bridges the gap (00:58:53)

16. Infrastructure history log? (01:03:34)

17. The adoption cycle (01:06:20)

18. Good for onboarding (01:08:06)

19. Tech debt & migration (01:10:27)

20. Current infrastructure-as-code tools (01:11:50)

21. A different future (01:15:33)

22. Dealing with APIs (01:16:57)

23. The Boogeyman isn't coming (01:22:12)

24. Realize the untapped potential (01:24:58)

25. Go to a start up! (01:32:02)

26. Thanks for joining us! (01:33:39)

27. Outro (01:34:48)