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Kelsey Hightower

πŸ‘€ Speaker
2824 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

This is insane.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

I'm thinking 90 and you're doing the, you know, retirement calculations.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

We can buy a house.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

You're thinking of all of these things that you could do.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

And so I'm on the way back to the job and I remembered and they were like, then when can you start?

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

It's like Thursday.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

I'm telling them we can start Monday.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

Like a two week notice.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

I'm like, I don't know, man.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

Like,

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

it's double for this i have to so i remember what i called joe and joe's based in san antonio where the headquarters of rec space was i was like hey joe man hey man i gotta i gotta i gotta quit he's like what man you just you know what i'm saying you're doing so well on the team how you gonna quit on me i made a bet on you no i said hey joe calm down bro they pay 90k he's like what are they hiring

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

And so I got to that company, Total Systems T-SYS.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

And it did feel a bit slow.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

They had run books, changed windows.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

Everything was regulated.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

This is a financial institution.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

We're processing credit card payments.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

We're doing work for the government.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

We're doing all of these things.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

And I remember the team was just, everybody just moving at this pace.