Descartes Labs, with Tim Kelton

Tim Kelton (  / timbuktuu  ) is co-founder and cloud architect for Descartes Labs (http://www.descarteslabs.com/) . Prior to starting Descartes Labs, he was a R&D engineer for 15 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory, working on problem areas such as deep learning, space systems, nuclear non-proliferation, and counterterrorism. Tim talks to Craig and Adam (https://kubernetespodcast.com/about) about the use of Kubernetes and Istio in geopolitics, machine learning and food supply.


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News of the week

• Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Prometheus Graduation (https://www.cncf.io/announcement/2018...)

• OpenMetrics project accepted into CNCF Sandbox (https://opensource.googleblog.com/201...)

• An Exciting New Direction (https://kubic.opensuse.org/blog/2018-...) for the Kubic project

• Demystifying RBAC in Kubernetes (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2018/08/01/d...)

• Kubebuilder 1.0 (https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/08/10...) scaffolds (with a C) Kubernetes APIs and operators

• Getting Started (https://book.kubebuilder.io/quick_sta...)

• GitHub (https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/ku...)


• Operator Lifecycle Management (https://itnext.io/wth-is-a-operator-l...) - it’s operators all the way down
Links from the interview

• Descartes Labs (http://www.descarteslabs.com/)

• Climate Change and Rising Food Prices Heightened Arab Spring (https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...)

• Why DARPA Funded a Farm Tech Startup (http://fortune.com/2017/03/23/new-mex...)

• Announcing our $30M Series B (  / announcing-our-30m-series-b  )

• Global-scale water monitoring in the cloud (  / global-scale-water-monitoring-in-the-cloud  )


• Beowulf clusters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf...) (a Slashdot meme)

• Omega (https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub41684) and Borg (https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub43438) papers

• Mountain biking in Sedona (http://otesports.com/locations/sedona...)

• Descartes Labs Python client (https://docs.descarteslabs.com/)

• SRE books:

• Site Reliability Engineering (https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html)

• The Site Reliability Workbook (https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html) - free until August 23


• Descartes Labs talks from Cloud Next ‘18:

• SRE Quality Operations for Your Services Using the Istio Service Mesh & Stackdriver (   • SRE Quality Operations for Your Services U...  ) - with Tim Kelton and Jay Judkowitz from Stackdriver Service Monitoring (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/...)

• How Computers See the Earth: A ML Approach to Understanding Satellite Imagery (   • How Computers See the Earth: A ML Approach...  ) with Kyle Story

• Building Multi-Tenancy ML Applications with GKE and Istio to Better Understand the Earth (   • Building Multi-Tenancy ML Applications wit...  ) with Tim Kelton and Sam Skillman


• Descartes Labs GeoVisual Search (http://www.descarteslabs.com/search.html) - find the squares on the globe that look most like a given square

• Tim Kelton (  / timbuktuu  ) on Twitter