56 dog years as a cloud native
summary
Chronicle of building an IP‑based alternative to fragile SDN overlays: Calico advertises routes with BGP instead of virtual switching, launches July 2014 into the Kubernetes timing window (Docker 2013, k8s announced month earlier) and proves critics wrong by being adopted in major cloud Kubernetes offerings and by operators like Bloomberg. The story covers starting from OpenStack pain, building Tigera to commercialize Calico, numbers: eight human years in cloud native (~56 dog years), and outcomes: simpler networking that scales and a go‑to managed k8s pattern.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction and inspiration
- 2:37Docker and cloud native revolution
- 5:50Early career and OpenStack struggles
- 8:55Calico project and simplicity
- 12:48Kubernetes and timing
- 14:56Community and open collaboration
- 17:44Launching Tigera startup
- 18:47Vanilla latte moment and burnout
- 20:11Moving to Berlin and Kinfolk
- 21:56Joining Microsoft and future trends
- 28:00Lessons and summary
- 30:05Q&A session
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