Best Kubernetes Bytes Podcasts (2025)

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#61 Scaling Green Software with Anita Schüttler 49:16

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What does it take to go beyond raising awareness in green software? To avoid checking just boxes? What is required to scale green software practices in a company? To discuss these issues, Gaël Duez welcomes Anita Schüttler on this episode “from the trenches”. Anita is a seasoned software engineer and expert on digital sustainability. She works as H…

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EP 69: Bella Kelada-Khalil from Midnight Marketing 1:21:32

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AI isn’t just showing up in oil and gas, it’s kicking the door down. We hung out with Bella Kelada-Khalil from Midnight Marketing, who’s diving headfirst into petroleum engineering and AI after starting in sales and events. She’s asking the smart, unfiltered questions you wish you could, and we’re here for it. We swap stories on how AI is automatin…

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#60 Why Tech companies should not deprioritize future readiness with Rainer Karcher 49:37

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“Climate activist in a suit”. This is how Rainer Karcher describes himself. It is an endless debate between people advocating for the system to change from the outside and those willing to change it from the inside. In this episode Gaël Duez welcomes a strong advocate of moving the corporate world into the right direction from within? Having spent …

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EP 68: Cameron Snow from Danomics 1:11:11

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Tired of clunky geoscience software that feels like it was built in the '90s? Same. That’s why we brought on Cameron Snow from Danomics to talk about how his team is shaking things up. He’s built a platform that actually makes life easier for geologists and engineers, no more wrestling with legacy tools just to run a few thousand wells. We got into…

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EP 67: Jeff Krimmel from Krimmel Strategy Group 1:13:01

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If you've ever wrestled with messy datasets, legacy code, or trying to get executives to actually *use* data, you’ll get a kick out of this one. We sat down with Jeff Krimmel from Krimmel Strategy Group to talk shop about how he’s helping energy companies turn their mountain of data into real-world strategy. We hit everything from making peace with…

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#59 Debriefing Qcon Sustainability track with Erica Pisani 39:32

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How is sustainability covered in main tech conferences? Sure cybersecurity, DevOps, or anything related to SRE, is covered at length. Not to mention AI… But what room is left for the environmental impact of our job ? And what are the main trends which are filtered out from specialized conferences in Green IT such as Green IO, GreenTech Forum or eco…

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EP 66: Cam Sinclair from SmartChain 1:02:49

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SmartChain is on a mission to kill off the chaos of clunky contracts in oil and gas—and they might actually be pulling it off. We caught up with their co-founder Cameron Sinclair, who’s turning heads with a platform that automates the mess out of invoicing, closes those dreaded “leakage” gaps, and makes cash flow way less of a guessing game. From a…

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Anna: A KVS For Any Scale 19:01

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This research paper introduces Anna, a key-value store (KVS) designed for scalable performance across diverse computing environments, from single multi-core machines to globally distributed cloud deployments. Anna achieves high performance and adaptability through a partitioned, multi-master architecture utilizing wait-free execution and coordinati…

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#58b Avoided emissions thanks to Tech: the Vinted use case with Laetitia Bornes - Part 2 39:15

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Why is the model of a Nobel prize winner not necessarily good science? What is “good” modelling? Is access to information enough to change a system behavior? This episode is the second part of a long interview with Laetitia Bornes, a Doctor in Human-Computer Interaction, Systems Engineering and Systemic Design who is one of the co-authors of a rese…

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EP 65: Brandon Davis from AFE Leaks 1:04:23

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We're lifting the curtain on the mysterious world of energy data transparency with the guy who's shaking things up at AFE Leaks. He's on a mission to break open the hidden details around oil and gas costs and operations, think: cracking open dusty old filings and turning them into something everyone can actually use. He chats about the wild ride of…

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Conflict-free Replicated Data Types 26:17

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This academic paper introduces Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs), which are abstract data types designed for distributed systems where data is replicated across multiple locations. CRDTs allow any replica to be modified without needing immediate coordination with other replicas, ensuring high availability and low latency. The core concept…

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#58a Avoided emissions thanks to Tech: the Vinted use case with Laetitia Bornes - Part 1 48:03

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Can a digital company be “carbon negative”? What should we think of these claims of “tons of carbon avoided” coming from 2nd hand platforms such as Vinted or Back Market? Dr Laetita Bornes conducted research on Vinted claims, investigating its data sources and the methodology used with her colleague David Ekchazer. Their findings were surprising, e…

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CAP Twelve Years Later: How the "Rules" Have Changed 29:47

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This content from InfoQ provides insights for software architects and developers through various formats like newsletters, articles, and conference information. It highlights topics in architecture, AI, data engineering, culture, methods, and DevOps. Featured pieces discuss Slack's cellular architecture, data stream processing patterns, cultivating…

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Raft versus Paxos: An Understandable Consensus Algorithm 33:14

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Raft, a consensus algorithm designed for managing a replicated log in distributed systems. It aims to be more understandable than Paxos, a widely used but complex alternative, while achieving equivalent efficiency and safety. Raft separates key consensus elements like leader election, log replication, and safety, using techniques such as problem de…

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Neo4j Architecture: Graph Database Internals, Performance, and Optimization 17:42

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This compilation of resources offers a comprehensive examination of Neo4j's graph database architecture. It explains how Neo4j differs from relational and document-oriented databases through its native graph storage. The materials describe how nodes, relationships, and properties are stored and indexed for efficient traversal and query processing. …

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#57 Greening Intelligence: Bridging Infrastructure and Governance for a Sustainable AI Future with Pr. PS Lee and Pr. Heng Wang 24:46

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Description “It's always a case of fit for purpose, or what we call a proper engineering.” Some down-to-earth facts and analysis were coined by Pr PS Lee, one of the world's top experts in liquid cooling - and Pr. Heng Wang - a renowned expert in digital governance - while cross-analysing Singapore’s main challenges from an infrastructure and gover…

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EP 64: Joshua Johnston from Capsher Technology 57:39

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AI isn't just a buzzword in oil and gas, it’s changing the game, and we’re breaking it down with someone who’s been in the trenches making it happen. From smarter fracking and streamlined drilling to navigating the chaos of legacy systems, this convo peels back the curtain on what it *really* takes to build tech that actually works in the field. We…

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Sentry: Error Monitoring at Scale - Design Principles Analysis 15:48

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Sentry is a large-scale, open-source error monitoring platform designed for modern distributed systems. It prioritizes actionable insights by focusing on exceptions and crashes, enriching errors with contextual data, and using features such as breadcrumbs and error grouping. Sentry's architecture employs modular and decoupled components like Relay …

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Istio Service Mesh: Architecture, Security, and Traffic Management 33:58

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These excerpts offer a detailed look at Istio's service mesh architecture, a critical component for managing microservices in cloud-native environments. The architecture is divided into a control plane and data plane, emphasizing security through automated mTLS and traffic management with advanced load balancing techniques. Observability is achieve…

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CockroachDB: SQL for Global Scale Design Principles 14:33

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CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database designed for global scalability and resilience. The database achieves this through a unique architecture built on a monolithic key-value store, Raft-based replication, and hybrid logical clocks. Transaction management is optimized for global workloads using a non-blocking commit protocol and multi-region ca…

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#56 Building Green Software, the one year anniversary with Sarah Hsu 49:10

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A year ago, Building Green Software was released by O’Reilly. Since Tim Frick’s book “Designing for sustainability” (8 years ago!), O’Reilly didn’t publish anything fully focusing on sustainability. So, it’s a fair statement that this book was long awaited. But a year is an eternity in IT. This is why Sarah Hsu, one of its 3 co-authors as well as t…

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EP 63: Vicki Knott from CruxOCM 1:00:20

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What happens when a control room engineer gets fed up with clunky old systems and decides to rebuild them from the ground up? You get CruxOCM, a company shaking up pipeline automation with tools like PipeBot and GatherBot that sound like sci-fi but are very real (and very efficient). Vicki Knott shares how she went from pulp and paper mills to lead…

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Snowflake: Revolutionizing Cloud Data Warehousing and Analytics 17:21

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Snowflake, a cloud-native data warehouse, revolutionizes modern analytics through its unique architecture and capabilities. The platform separates compute and storage layers, enabling independent scaling and optimized performance. Its three-layer design encompasses cloud services, a compute layer using virtual warehouses, and a storage layer levera…

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EP 62: Nick Fornicola from Beusa Energy 1:13:45

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AI in oil and gas isn't just a buzzword, it's actually solving real problems out in the field. On this episode, we chat with someone who's knee-deep in the data trenches and building tools that make workflows faster, smarter, and way less painful. From using vibration data to predict when gear’s about to break, to training AI to read and summarize …

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Kubernetes: Container Orchestration, Architecture, and Evolution 25:56

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This collection of excerpts comprehensively examines Kubernetes, the leading container orchestration platform. It traces the historical evolution of container orchestration and highlights Kubernetes' architectural foundations, including its control plane and node components. Scalability mechanisms like horizontal pod autoscaling and cell-based arch…

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#55 Decarbonizing Kubernetes with Flavia Paganelli and Niki Manoledaki 44:41

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Did containerisation ship away our environmental responsibility? Containers come with the promise of automation, scalability and reliability. The question is how to add sustainability to the list without breaking its other benefits. To talk about these challenges, Gaël Duez welcomes Flavia Paganelli and Niki Manoledaki, 2 experts in Kubernetes who …

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Elasticsearch: Architecture, Applications, and Emerging Trends 18:13

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This compilation of excerpts thoroughly examines Elasticsearch, focusing on its architecture, applications, and future trends. The core architecture and its integration within the Elastic Stack are highlighted, emphasizing scalability and real-time analytics. Various specialized applications are discussed, including maritime data storage, academic …

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# 54 Agility and Sustainability with Joanna Masraff and Joanne Stone 48:44

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"We are 100% convinced that IT sustainability matters but we can’t add more non business requirements, we have agile teams." This often heard sentence from product managers or CPOs, led to this dedicated episode on agility and sustainability where host Gaël Duez welcomes 2 seasoned agile coaches: Joanne Stone, the founder of Agilist 4 planet and th…

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Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications 19:40

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This research paper introduces Ray, a distributed framework designed for emerging AI applications, particularly those involving reinforcement learning. It addresses the limitations of existing systems in handling the complex demands of these applications, which require continuous interaction with the environment. Ray unifies task-parallel and actor…

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Zanzibar: Google's Global Authorization System 27:21

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This paper details Zanzibar, Google's globally distributed authorization system, designed to manage access control lists (ACLs) at a massive scale. Zanzibar uses a flexible data model and configuration language to handle diverse access control policies for numerous Google services, achieving high availability and low latency. The system maintains e…

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Database as a service with Percona Everest 1:02:44

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In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Edith (Edi) Puclla, Technology Evangelist at Percona to talk about Percona Everest. The conversation focuses on Percona's investment in the Open-source ecosystem, and how they keep innovating with Percona Monitoring and Management and Percona Everest. The discussion also…

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Google Mesa: A Geo-Replicated, Near Real-Time Data Warehouse 15:02

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**Mesa** is a highly scalable, geo-replicated data warehousing system developed at Google to handle petabytes of data related to its advertising business. **Designed for near real-time data ingestion and querying**, it processes millions of updates per second and serves billions of queries daily. **Key features include strong consistency, high avai…

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#53 Scaling GreenOps at Back Market with Dawn Baker 37:03

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Changing its Cloud provider is never small potatoes, especially when a platform operates up to 40,000 containers and has about 4 million unique visitors a day to its website. Yet Back Market made the move from AWS to Google Cloud Platform motivated primarily by … sustainability concerns! In this episode its CTO, Dawn Backer, chats with Gaël Duez an…

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Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System 13:50

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This paper, "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System," explores the challenges of defining and managing time in distributed systems. It introduces the concept of a "happened before" relation to partially order events and presents an algorithm for creating a consistent total ordering using logical clocks. The paper then exte…

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ZooKeeper: Wait-Free Coordination for Internet-Scale Systems 26:38

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This paper details the design and implementation of ZooKeeper, a high-performance coordination service for large-scale distributed systems. ZooKeeper provides a simple, wait-free API enabling developers to build various coordination primitives, such as locks and group membership, without server-side modifications. It achieves high throughput throug…

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EP 61: Brock Meyer from Wise Rock 1:02:46

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Oil and gas engineers drowning in data, meet your new best friend—Wise Rock. We’re talking lightning-fast analytics, effortless communication, and a platform built to make your life easier. Brock Meyer, the brains behind it, joins us to share how his tech is slashing downtime, streamlining workflows, and bringing exception-based surveillance to the…

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#52 Sustainability at WordPress: an update with Csaba Varszegi, Nahuai Badiola, and Nora Ferreiros 47:46

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“Today I learned that we have a sustainability team.Thank you for your effort in this area, looking at results of the team so far, and the ROI of time invested, it's probably a good time to officially dissolve the team entirely”. In 3 sentences, almost 3 years of work from the WordPress Sustainability Group vanished and their Slack channel archived…

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TensorFlow: Large-Scale Machine Learning on Heterogeneous Systems 17:02

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This paper details TensorFlow, a large-scale machine learning system developed by Google. TensorFlow uses dataflow graphs to represent computation and manages state across diverse hardware, including CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs. It offers a flexible programming model, allowing developers to experiment with novel optimizations and training algorithms beyon…

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#51 Exploring the digital revolution paradox from a UN perspective with Paz Pena and Pablo José Gamez Cersosimo 56:41

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It’s a 252 pages report with the foreword of António Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, talking about digitalization and sustainability. And, for once, it’s not another report from the UN stating “let’s digitize everything to boost sustainability”. Quite the contrary as it states a “unequal ecological exchange between developed …

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Firestore: A Serverless NoSQL Database 27:46

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This paper details Google Firestore, a NoSQL serverless database built on Spanner. It highlights Firestore's ease of use, scalability, real-time query capabilities, and support for disconnected operations. The architecture, which enables multi-tenancy and efficient handling of large datasets, is explained. Performance benchmarks and practical lesso…

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Apache Flink: Stream and Batch Processing in a Single Engine 18:12

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This research paper details Apache Flink, an open-source system unifying stream and batch data processing. Flink uses a dataflow model to handle various data processing needs, including real-time analytics and batch jobs, within a single engine. The paper explores Flink's architecture, APIs (including DataStream and DataSet APIs), and fault-toleran…

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Kafka: A Distributed Messaging System for Log Processing 16:52

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This paper introduces Kafka, a novel distributed messaging system designed for high-throughput log processing. Kafka addresses limitations in existing messaging systems and log aggregators by offering a scalable, efficient architecture with a simple API. Key features include a pull-based consumption model, efficient storage and data transfer mechan…

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LinkedIn: Using Set Cover to Optimize a Large-Scale Low Latency Distributed Graph 12:59

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This research paper details LinkedIn's solution for optimizing low-latency graph computations within their large-scale distributed graph system. To improve performance, they implemented a modified greedy set cover algorithm to minimize the number of machines needed for processing second-degree connection queries. This optimization significantly red…

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Monolith: A Real-Time Recommendation System 20:25

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This research paper details Monolith, a real-time recommendation system developed by Bytedance. Monolith addresses challenges in building scalable recommendation systems, such as sparse and dynamic data, and concept drift, by employing a collisionless embedding table and an online training architecture. Key innovations include a Cuckoo HashMap for …

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Meta FlexiRaft: Flexible Quorums for Raft Consensus 24:27

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This research paper details FlexiRaft, a modified Raft consensus algorithm designed for Meta's petabyte-scale MySQL deployments. The core improvement is the introduction of flexible quorums, allowing configurable trade-offs between latency, throughput, and fault tolerance. Two quorum modes are presented: static and dynamic. The paper explores the a…

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KubeCon NA 2024 News Recap 58:24

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Join Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner for a recap of announcements and news from KubeCon North America 2024. Check out our website at https://kubernetesbytes.com/ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241119538933/en/Spectro-Cloud-Closes-75m-Series-C-Led-by-Growth-Equity-at-Goldman-Sachs-Alternatives https://northflank.com/blog/northflank-raises-22m…

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EP 60: Onega Ulanova from QMS2GO 1:11:48

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From Kazakhstan to Louisiana and now shaking up the oil and gas industry, Onega Ulanova’s story is as bold as her startup, QMS2GO. This AI-powered tool is turning the grind of quality management into a smooth operation—automating audits, crafting training materials, and capturing wisdom from seasoned machinists. Inspired by her own experience as a …

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Spanner: Google’s Globally Distributed Database 13:28

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This research paper details Spanner, Google's globally-distributed database system. Spanner achieves strong consistency across its geographically dispersed data centers using a novel TrueTime API that accounts for clock uncertainty. The system features automatic sharding, failover, and a semi-relational data model, addressing limitations of previou…

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Increasing AI adoption using Kubernetes 52:03

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In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Tobi Knaup, VP and General Manager of Cloud Native at Nutanix about all things Kubernetes and AI. The discussion focuses on how Kubernetes has evolved since the early days, and why it's architecture is a perfect fit for accelerating adoption of AI workloads inside organization…

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EP 59: Jacob Matson from MotherDuck 1:24:21

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What happens when a lightning-fast database meets a quirky name like MotherDuck? You get DuckDB—an embeddable powerhouse shaking up the data warehouse world. It’s fast, it’s sleek, and it’s turning traditional multi-node setups into yesterday’s news. Jacob Matson from MotherDuck spills the beans on how they’re turbocharging DuckDB for the cloud, ma…