Robert Brennan is director of open source software at Fairwinds, a cloud-native infrastructure solution provider. He focuses on the development of open source tools that abstract the complexity from underlying infrastructure to enable an optimal experience for developers. Before Fairwinds, he worked as a software engineer at Google in AI and natural language processing. He is the co-founder of DataFire.io, an open source platform for building API’s and integrations, and LucyBot, developer of a suite of automated API documentation solutions deployed by Fortune 500 companies. He is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Engineering where he focused on machine learning.
Container Orchestration: Avoiding Errors and Misconfigurations
There’s no denying that containers are the future of application development or that container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes are accelerating adoption. It’s a logical move: Containers neatly package up everything needed ...
Best of 2019: Kubernetes Without Scale: Reasons to Run a Personal Cluster, Part 1
As we close out 2019, we at Container Journal wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the first in our weeklong series of the Best of ...
Kubernetes Without Scale: Setting up a Personal Cluster, Part 2
In Part 1, we discussed some good reasons to run your own Kubernetes cluster, even for software that doesn’t need high scalability and reliability. We showed that installing and managing third-party applications ...
Catching the Second Wave With Kubernetes Open Source Products
As the Kubernetes ecosystem evolves, analysts are starting to talk about the “second wave” of cloud-native computing. A recent piece in Forbes highlights the increasing emphasis on cloud toolchains: “In the second ...
