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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

We would like your permission.

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

And if it's something that can be detrimental to your business, now's your time to speak up.

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

So once we got permission, we had a window.

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

That's the only window you got.

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

And if you can't finish it on time, you got to shut it down and get us back to where we were.

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

Yeah, roll back.

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

Roll forward, or if you could, roll back.

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

And I remember I put NGINX in place.

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

So at this point, it's all you.

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

No one at this company has NGINX experience.

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

Also, most people don't want to do this.

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

They're like, hey, we think this is a bad idea.

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

And so now it's your reputation on the line.

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

There is no hiding behind the team.

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

It's almost like everyone's sitting back like, you got it.

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

Now, luckily, the leadership was like, we are supporting you and we're putting our careers on the line as well.

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

I mean, they probably would have been safe.

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

But after about two hours, I got everything working.

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

And we just watched your memory pressure just drop.

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

So if we were at 90% on utilizing, let's call it 32 gigs, and we're just blowing the stack every time everything's crashing, this thing is hovering at like two gigs of RAM.