Descartes Labs, with Tim Kelton

Kubernetes Podcast from Google

Episode | Podcast

Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 16:14:22 +0000

<p><a href="https://twitter.com/timbuktuu">Tim Kelton</a> is co-founder and cloud architect for <a href="http://www.descarteslabs.com/">Descartes Labs</a>. Prior to starting Descartes Labs, he was a R&amp;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 <a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com/about">Craig and Adam</a> about the use of Kubernetes and Istio in geopolitics, machine learning and food supply.</p> <p>Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know:</p> <ul> <li>web: <a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com">kubernetespodcast.com</a></li> <li>mail: <a href="mailto:kubernetespodcast@google.com">kubernetespodcast@google.com</a></li> <li>twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/kubernetespod">@kubernetespod</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="news-of-the-week">News of the week</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.cncf.io/announcement/2018/08/09/prometheus-graduates/"> Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Prometheus Graduation</a></li> <li><a href="https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/08/openmetrics-project-accepted-into-cncf.html"> OpenMetrics project accepted into CNCF Sandbox</a></li> <li><a href="https://kubic.opensuse.org/blog/2018-08-09-newdirection/">An Exciting New Direction</a> for the Kubic project</li> <li><a href="https://www.cncf.io/blog/2018/08/01/demystifying-rbac-in-kubernetes/"> Demystifying RBAC in Kubernetes</a></li> <li><a href="https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/08/10/introducing-kubebuilder-an-sdk-for-building-kubernetes-apis-using-crds/"> Kubebuilder 1.0</a> scaffolds (with a C) Kubernetes APIs and operators <ul> <li><a href="https://book.kubebuilder.io/quick_start.html">Getting Started</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubebuilder">GitHub</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://itnext.io/wth-is-a-operator-lifecycle-manager-873cf1661b04"> Operator Lifecycle Management</a> - it’s operators all the way down</li> </ul> <h3 id="links-from-the-interview">Links from the interview</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.descarteslabs.com/">Descartes Labs</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-and-rising-food-prices-heightened-arab-spring/"> Climate Change and Rising Food Prices Heightened Arab Spring</a></li> <li><a href="http://fortune.com/2017/03/23/new-mexico-descartes-labs-darpa-grant/"> Why DARPA Funded a Farm Tech Startup</a></li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/@DescartesLabs/announcing-our-30m-series-b-e658d58b4024"> Announcing our $30M Series B</a></li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/@DescartesLabs/global-scale-water-monitoring-in-the-cloud-c38cb4e9fe56"> Global-scale water monitoring in the cloud</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster">Beowulf clusters</a> (a Slashdot meme)</li> <li><a href="https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub41684">Omega</a> and <a href="https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub43438">Borg</a> papers</li> <li><a href="http://otesports.com/locations/sedona/trails/">Mountain biking in Sedona</a></li> <li><a href="https://docs.descarteslabs.com/">Descartes Labs Python client</a></li> <li>SRE books: <ul> <li><a href="https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html">Site Reliability Engineering</a></li> <li><a href="https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html">The Site Reliability Workbook</a> - free until August 23</li> </ul> </li> <li>Descartes Labs talks from Cloud Next ‘18: <ul> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1TQeeZN05Y">SRE Quality Operations for Your Services Using the Istio Service Mesh & Stackdriver</a> - with Tim Kelton and Jay Judkowitz from <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/drilling-down-into-stackdriver-service-monitoring.html"> Stackdriver Service Monitoring</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PNnPagENxQ">How Computers See the Earth: A ML Approach to Understanding Satellite Imagery</a> with Kyle Story</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVcFIOs5bz0">Building Multi-Tenancy ML Applications with GKE and Istio to Better Understand the Earth</a> with Tim Kelton and Sam Skillman</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://www.descarteslabs.com/search.html">Descartes Labs GeoVisual Search</a> - find the squares on the globe that look most like a given square</li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/timbuktuu">Tim Kelton</a> on Twitter</li> </ul>