The Co-Creator of Kubernetes On Convincing Google, Building It, and Scaling for LLMs

This is a conversation with Brendan Burns, co-creator of Kubernetes and current technical fellow at Microsoft working on Azure. We discussed what it was like building it at Google, how he got buy-in, and what he learned along the way.

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00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:37 - How he convinced Google leaders
00:09:26 - Building the MVP
00:11:43 - How he made time for Kubernetes
00:25:28 - Technical details on building Kubernetes
00:38:46 - Rallying the open source community
00:50:01 - Scaling Kubernetes up for AI training workloads
00:55:31 - Reflections on getting a PhD
01:00:22 - The inevitable trajectory of software is death
01:04:16 - Top book recommendations
01:05:22 - Advice for his younger self
01:06:21 - Outro

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