Rick is the VP of product at InfluxData. Rick's 25 years of experience includes pioneering work on developer usability, leading popular open source projects and packaging, delivering and maintaining cloud software. In his previous role as the VP of InfluxData's platform team, Rick focused on excellence in cloud-native delivery including CI/CD, high availability, multi-cloud and multi-region deployments and scale. Currently, Rick resides outside of Washington, DC where he continues to pursue his interest in developer usability as well as playing with embedded microcontrollers, music, gardening and video games.
Building the Ideal Kubernetes Distro for SaaS: Part 2
In the first article of this two-part series, we took a critical look at the Kubernetes distribution-for-SaaS landscape. While the InfluxData team proves that it’s possible to use Kubernetes as a cloud ...
Building the Ideal Kubernetes Distro for SaaS: Part 1
This is a two-part series about the unique challenge of running a multi-cloud, multi-tenant SaaS solution on Kubernetes. Part one covers the problem domain, how running a SaaS product is different from ...
Best of 2021 – 4 Expert-Level Things I Wish I’d Known About Kubernetes
As we close out 2021, we at Container Journal wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the third in our series of the Best of 2021. InfluxDB ...
