Gophers: Brian Ketelsen & Erik St. Martin
Posted on Tuesday, Jan 23, 2018
Show Notes
Bridget discusses all things Go with Brian Ketelsen and Erik St. Martin.
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Artwork credit: Ashley McNamara’s Gophers art repo on github
Community & Event Stuff
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Upcoming conferences
Open CFPs
- lots of DevOpsDays
- GopherCon: CFP closes March 15; Conference Aug 27-30.
Discount codes
- ADO2018 for 20% off lots of devopsdays, 10% off ChefConf, 5% off GopherCon.
Checkouts
Brian
- kubed-sh - web-based Kubernetes distributed shell
- Isomorphic web applications using Go
Erik
- Blog post about virtual Kubelet
- Building abstraction atop k8s
- Machine learning setup on k8s
- Reverse engineering circuit boards (next book on my reading list)
Bridget
- Honeycomb engineering blog
- Bombsheller leggings (again! because people ask for this at every conference!)
- Leakproof Nalgene water bottle
Guests
Brian Ketelsen
Brian Ketelsen is probably most widely known for his role in the Go community: co-organizing Gophercon, co-hosting the GoTime.FM podcast, and co-authoring Go in Action for Manning Press. He’s been programming since he was 10, starting on a TI-99 4A. His broad background includes roles as a DBA, Developer, CIO, and nearly everything in-between. Brian built his first custom Linux distribution in 2007, which was used by colleges and companies like IBM to make developing with Ruby on Rails easier. Biggest contribution to Open Source: SkyDNS, which powers service discovery in Kubernetes.
Erik St. Martin
Erik St. Martin spent the last decade building distributed systems for large enterprises such as cable providers, credit bureaus, and fraud detection companies, and now works for Microsoft as a Cloud Developer Advocate. He co-authored a book on the Go programming language, podcasts with GoTimeFM, and co-organizes GopherCon, the annual conference for the Go community.
Hosts
Bridget Kromhout
Bridget Kromhout is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft Azure, focusing on the open source cloud native ecosystem. Her CS degree emphasis was in theory, but she now deals with the concrete (if ‘cloud’ can be considered tangible). After years on call for production (from enterprise to research to startups) and a couple of customer-facing adventures, she now herds cats and wrangles docs on the product side of engineering. In the wider tech community, she has done much conference speaking and organizing, and advises the global devopsdays organization after leading it for over five years. Living in Minneapolis, she enjoys snowshoeing in the winter and bicycling in the summer (with winter cycling as a stretch goal).
