Using Pixie, developers can view the high-level state of their cluster (service maps, cluster resources, application traffic) and also drill down into more detailed views (pod state, flame graphs) without having to modify or redeploy their code.
In this episode of 🌩️ Thunder, Michelle Nguyen, Pixie maintainer, explains how Pixie provides instant Kubernetes observability, and the internals of how it works.
We cover how Pixie uses eBPF to collect telemetry without code instrumentation, what it captures (protocol tracing, resource metrics, application CPU profiles), how data stays in-cluster for privacy, and when to use Pixie alongside OpenTelemetry and Prometheus.
Surveys have shown that less than 2% of people one or two layers around you as a leader understand what the priorities are.
Julia Hoggett, the London Stock Exchange CEO, says she spends a third of her time constantly creating this clarity. When people feel responsible for an outcome, magic can happen.
Jana Werner wrote The Octopus Organization after interviewing 70 executives.
KubeCon Europe: KubeHound: Identifying Attack Paths in Kubernetes Clusters at Scale
Coming soon! Join me and my illustrious guest Lin Sun (Head of Open Source at Solo.io, CNCF TOC member, and Kagent co-creator) for an ⚡️ Enlightning livestream about kagent! I can’t wait!
In this episode of 🌩️ Thunder, Raghd Hamzeh, OpenFGA maintainer at Auth0, explains relationship-based authorization. When Whitney shares a document with Raghd, you tell OpenFGA “Raghd is now an editor of this document.” Later, when Raghd tries to access it, OpenFGA already knows . There are no database calls, and there is no runtime logic.
We cover how OpenFGA differs from RBAC and attribute-based systems, why sharing becomes trivially easy, how immutable authorization models let you test changes against production data safely, and what auditability looks like when permissions live outside your application code.
In this episode of 🌩️ Thunder, Peter Wilcsinszky, maintainer of Logging Operator, explains how the project’s Flow and Output custom resources bring Kubernetes-native control to log routing.
It is a new episode of the Software Defined Interviews podcast! Andrew Clay Shafer — co-founder of Puppet and someone who’s spent 15 years helping organizations transform — has a theory. True transformation only happens under one of two conditions: an inspired leader with enough social capital to push through change, or an existential crisis so obvious that everyone in the building knows they have to do things differently.
Do you agree? Have a listen.
It is a new episode of the Software Defined Interviews podcast! Russell Davies has blogged for 20 years, made a TikTok every day for months, and written multiple books. When Coté and I asked how he stays so prolific, his answer surprised me: “I have quite low standards.”
Just a DIY holiday musical that merges the plot of Wiked with the characters from Lord of the Rings while critiquing capitalism and celebrating queerness!
