Descartes Labs, with Tim Kelton

Tim Kelton (twitter.com/timbuktuu) is co-founder and cloud architect for Descartes Labs (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 (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 (www.cncf.io/announcement/2018/08/09/prometheus-gra…)

• OpenMetrics project accepted into CNCF Sandbox (opensource.googleblog.com/2018/08/openmetrics-proj…)

• An Exciting New Direction (kubic.opensuse.org/blog/2018-08-09-newdirection/) for the Kubic project

• Demystifying RBAC in Kubernetes (www.cncf.io/blog/2018/08/01/demystifying-rbac-in-k…)

• Kubebuilder 1.0 (kubernetes.io/blog/2018/08/10/introducing-kubebuil…) scaffolds (with a C) Kubernetes APIs and operators

• Getting Started (book.kubebuilder.io/quick_start.html)

• GitHub (github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubebuilder)


• Operator Lifecycle Management (itnext.io/wth-is-a-operator-lifecycle-manager-873c…) - it’s operators all the way down
Links from the interview

• Descartes Labs (www.descarteslabs.com/)

• Climate Change and Rising Food Prices Heightened Arab Spring (www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-…)

• Why DARPA Funded a Farm Tech Startup (fortune.com/2017/03/23/new-mexico-descartes-labs-d…)

• Announcing our $30M Series B (medium.com/@DescartesLabs/announcing-our-30m-serie…)

• Global-scale water monitoring in the cloud (medium.com/@DescartesLabs/global-scale-water-monit…)


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

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

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

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

• SRE books:

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

• The Site Reliability Workbook (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 (cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/drilling-down…)

• 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 (www.descarteslabs.com/search.html) - find the squares on the globe that look most like a given square

• Tim Kelton (twitter.com/timbuktuu) on Twitter