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It's rare that I get to reflect back on my entire tech career and my philosophy towards work and life, but this interview captures it perfectly.

Google Cloud products including GKE (Kubernetes), Cloud Run/Functions, the gcloud CLI, and a number of other utilities and control plane components sit it direct revenue paths. In …

The one benefit you get is protection from bugs in Kubernetes itself and a reduced blast radius. Even if you could produce a secure and H/A cluster, you still leave yourself open t…

I'm currently testing our (GCP) solution to the CPU throttling you've highlighted. I've been using Vault[1] as my test case, and so far so good. Be on the look out for early sign u…

Stay tuned. A lot of the tech behind El Carro can be extracted into a generic controller and serve as the foundation for other databases including Postgres.

Cloud run is attempting to enable that "Just Works" experience, but we are trying to do it by leveraging the best of open source, and native client libraries. Feels like we are get…

Thanks for your comment. This is something the team keeps top of mind and influences our decisions and road maps. Please continue to keep us honest here. I'll get others to weight …

Cold starts can be one of the biggest trade offs when adopting a Serverless platform like Cloud Run, especially with 30 second start up times. We introduced minimum instances[1], c…

McDonald's was my starting point. It's where I developed much of my work ethic and my first taste of leadership in a professional setting. I was a shift manager for most of that ti…

1) The answer to this lies in the question. Agile is a practice and it'll take some to get up to speed. One path I took was taking jobs in tech support, answering phones calls, and…

Not at all! I read it as an honest question so I answered it.

I could not fit the entire title "From McDonald's to Google: How Kelsey Hightower became one of the most respected people in cloud computing" when submitting the post.

Ronnie taught me that making people smile should be part of the job. We both learned that you really need to understand the world around you if you want get people to laugh at it.

I read it for the first time today like everyone else and love the way it turned out. A lot of the technical stuff has been covered in other places. Tom pulled on a different threa…

This is a side of me I would like more people to see. The whole person. So I submitted the article. I grew up in the South and don't live in the Valley. It required a bit of humili…

Make it happen.

Many of those Tweets reminded me how much I've grown as a person. Those Tweets reminded me that I made the right choice treating everyone with respect and in some cases helped them…

McDonald's helped me establish a work ethic and learn what it means to be a professional and earn a paycheck. I was a shift manager in the 11th grade so I had to learn how to manag…