Kelsey Hightower
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The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
And so we got a new, we're moving off the mainframe.
The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
We're moving into this new, you know, Java world.
The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
And the servers just kept falling over.
The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
We couldn't handle all the transactions.
The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
And I'm just watching the team go into these change windows and then we fail.
The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
We would fail.
The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
We would fail.
The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
And the CTO at the time was like,
The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
you know, this is costing us money.
The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
We're getting chargebacks.
The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
We're having to pay out penalties.
The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
And I was like, I had a dev environment when I was using Nginx.
The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
I got rid of all this Java stuff.
The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
Like, it's just HTTP.
The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
You don't need a Java connector thing.
The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
I'm reading the spec.
The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
You don't need it.
The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
And my memory usage is a fraction.
The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
Yeah, you don't need it.
The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
And Nginx had a better threading model, all of these things.