Datadog and the Container Report, with Michael Gerstenhaber

Michael Gerstenhaber is a Director of Product Management at Datadog, and the curator of their annual Container Report. He joins Craig to discuss why they release it, some recent trends, and how it helps people validate their assumptions about technology.

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Chatter of the week

• Episode 103, with Saad Ali
• New TOC members
  • Episode 62, with Ricardo Rocha, Lukas Heinrch and Clemens Lange
• Malaysian roti in London
• Elgin Marbles

News of the week

• OPA graduates in the CNCF
  • Episode 101, with Tim Hinrichs and Torin Sandall
• Docker Distribution donated to the CNCF
• Red Hat Quay 3.4 released
  • CNCF proposal
• Hildegard malware writeup from Unit42
  • The original TeamTNT
  • Attacking Kubernetes clusters using the Kubelet API by Eduardo Baitello
• Jetstack Secure
• Traefik
  • Using Traefik as an ingress controller with Istio
• Kong Konnect is GA
  • Kong raises $100M at a $1.4b valuation
• Get your KubeCon EU tickets early
• Buildpacks vs Dockerfiles by Genevieve L'Esperance
• Why Helm never felt like it belonged by Luka Skugor

Links from the interview

• iOS and iOS
• The Happy Cloud
  • Happy Cloud Taps the Cloud to Speed Up Video Game Downloads by Ryan Kim at GigaOM
• Datadog
  • Live Container monitoring
  • Live Process monitoring
• Golden signals
• Work metrics and resource metrics
• Datadog reports:
  • Docker adoption
    • 2015
    • 2016
    • 2017
    • 2018
  • Container orchestration
    • 2018
  • Container Report
    • 2019
    • 2020
• KubeCon EU 2019 talk: 10 Ways to Shoot Yourself in the Foot with Kubernetes, #9 Will Surprise You by Laurent Bernaille & Robert Boll
• Autopilot: Workload Autoscaling at Google Scale
• Snow in NYC
  • #17 on the all-time list by inches of snowfall
• Michael Gerstenhaber on Twitter