746: Infrastructure for TS Devs: Kubernetes, WASM and Containers with David Flanagan

Deploy your own tech stack: Wes and Scott are joined by Kubernetes expert David Flanagan to be schooled on how Kubernetes, Docker and even WASM containers work.
Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
01:55 Should developers know how to run their own servers?
04:57 What is “bare metal”?
11:49 What the hell is Kubernetes?
12:25 Why would somebody need Kubernetes?
15:37 Using Kubernetes to spin up different instances on cloud providers.
etcd

16:43 Kubernetes managing traffic spikes.
18:46 How much downtime can you handle?
22:11 What exactly is a container?
24:06 What containers do you prefer?
Docker

Containerd

25:28 Some additional terminology.
OCI Open Container Initiative

26:43 What about WASM?
WASM WebAssembly

29:31 Building a Docker container.
31:11 Why would someone want to use a WebAssembly container?
32:12 Are people shipping this technology?
33:36 What functions would you put in WASM?
36:57 How does someone make a WASM image?
39:22 A little more about Spin.
Fermyon Spin

39:56 What type of processors are used in these servers?
42:27 What are home servers running on?
Turing Pi 2

Daniel Mangum

Universal Blue

46:40 How should someone get started with Kubernetes?
Kubernetes.io

Rawkode YouTube

Kubesimplify

Learnk8s

48:51 Infrastructure as code.
CDK for Terraform

GraalVM

55:19 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs.
Sick Picks David: Golem.cloud

Restate.dev

Shameless Plugs David: Rawkode YouTube

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