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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

Yeah, and also we didn't know we can trust it, right?

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

Remember, Docker is the king.

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

Docker's number one.

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

There's Docker Swarm, right?

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

And we're with fleet.

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

And right now we're like, Google also launched years prior a thing called Let Me Contain That For You.

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

It was a container runtime written in C++ to compete with Docker.

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

And no one cared.

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

And so we didn't know, like, maybe no one's going to care about this either.

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

It's only when I started going home and starting doing small contributions and starting to read everything and getting a feel for it, I was like, no, there's something here.

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

And so for maybe two or three months, and luckily the founders of Chorus were really nice, Alex Povey and Brandon, they were just like,

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

They didn't get mad or anything.

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

I was contributing nights and weekends, kind of like I was at the other company.

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

All of my keynotes were more like Kubernetes plus CoreOS.

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

And I remember at some point, it was inevitable.

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

We all got in a room.

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

I became the product manager of CoreOS at the time.

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

And Alex was like, I think you got the vision here.

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

And we got everybody in the basement in San Francisco in the office.

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

We were like, hey, guys.