Tim Kelton is co-founder and cloud architect for Descartes Labs. Prior to starting Descartes Labs, he was a R&D engineer for 15 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory, working on problem areas such as deep learning, space systems, nuclear non-proliferation, and counterterrorism. Tim talks to Craig and Adam about the use of Kubernetes and Istio in geopolitics, machine learning and food supply.

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News of the week

Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Prometheus Graduation
OpenMetrics project accepted into CNCF Sandbox
An Exciting New Direction for the Kubic project
Demystifying RBAC in Kubernetes
Kubebuilder 1.0 scaffolds (with a C) Kubernetes APIs and operators
- Getting Started
- GitHub
Operator Lifecycle Management - it’s operators all the way down

Links from the interview

Descartes Labs
Beowulf clusters (a Slashdot meme)
Omega and Borg papers
Mountain biking in Sedona
Descartes Labs Python client
SRE books:
- Site Reliability Engineering
- The Site Reliability Workbook - free until August 23
Descartes Labs talks from Cloud Next ‘18:
- SRE Quality Operations for Your Services Using the Istio Service Mesh & Stackdriver - with Tim Kelton and Jay Judkowitz from Stackdriver Service Monitoring
- How Computers See the Earth: A ML Approach to Understanding Satellite Imagery with Kyle Story
- Building Multi-Tenancy ML Applications with GKE and Istio to Better Understand the Earth with Tim Kelton and Sam Skillman
Descartes Labs GeoVisual Search - find the squares on the globe that look most like a given square
Tim Kelton on Twitter

Descartes Labs, with Tim Kelton

Kubernetes Podcast from Google