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On my way back I had two paperbacks that was purchased while I was in Austin attending the KubeCon 2017. Kubernetes Up & Running by Kelsey Hightower, Brendon Burns and Joe Beda - this is a special book as I managed to get their Autograph (got two copies one was sent to Colombo office with few other books). Started reading the book after I got on to the plane from LA and managed to finished reading with about 2hrs to land in Australia (in between I watched two movies too ;-) ) Yes I still need to try out many of the examples and possibly building a Pi Cluster in the summer. What did I like about the book? It was an easy read, I was surprised as to how Kelsey, Brendon and Joe managed to keep this book highly technical yet very easy to read and understand. The book covers the most of the key areas related to Kubernetes with detailed examples where possible. They didn't start the book jumping straight into Kubernetes, they had two chapters where they covered on

I left Australia on 2nd December for the KubeCon and Cloud Native conference in Austin Texas. I knew it was going to be a long journey and knowing that I don't normally get a good sleep on long flights decided to take a paperback and many eBooks. So what did I ended up reading? Cloud Native Infrastructure (eBook) by Kris Nova and Justin Garrison I had already finished two chapters of this book while waiting to get on the plane to LA. After getting on to the plane read another chapter and given my phone battery was quite low I put in for charging while switched to reading the paperback. Anyway I continued reading when the battery was fully charged, so between Melbourne, LA and Austin managed to complete reading the entire book. What do I think about the book? Kris and Justin did a very good job explaining the running applications vs true Cloud Native applications. The book is structured in a way that it's easier to understand even for people who may have not worked or had

Here are some of my Tech, Startup and other reads plus the Podcasts that Listened to over the past six months. Provided some brief comments. How ever anyone interested to kn ow mo re about my experience on these books or podcasts feel free to drop a note . Tech and Startup related Books Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston Jessica does a  great job i n  interviewing some of the great founders of our ti me. Interesting read and sometime you may wonder how fast things are moving in T ech nology space.   The Art of Fund Raising by by Alejandro Cremades Alejandro does a good job in putting his experience, lessons etc into a great book.  Site Reliability Engineering Edited by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff and Niall Richard Murphy Essays from Google Site Reliability Engineers - this book is now available for free. Highly recommended regardless of you are managing web scale organisation or not. The San Francisco Fallacy by Jonathan Siegel Awesome book b

Over the long weekend in Melbourne, Australia I had the opportunity to read The San Francisco Fallacy by Jonathan Siegel.  It was a great book to read, I am glad that I had the opportunity and time to read it. The key reason I liked the book is that while the author Johnathan gave the titled San Francisco Fallacy, the fallacies applied in almost any startup in any city no matter where you are.  He touches on the ten (10) most commonly found fallacies in Startup culture and clearly articulate why they are a fallacy with some of his own experience. I have applied some of his finding in my own experience and he is spot on, highly accurate like he had spoken to me about it. This will be one of the books that I will read at least twice a year to remind myself about the fallacies we all fall in without thinking too much. Highly recommend anyone involved in Startup, especially if you are a founder or co-founder to read this book. I am sure you will find it highly valuable.

Recently started listening to GCP Podcasts by  Mark  and  Francesc . Doing a great job keeping us informed with GCP services plus great interviews with some of the Google and non Google engineers, developers etc. Great Podcasts and happy to recommend.

It is nearly two years since I started writing about Docker, CoreOS (product CoreOS is now known as Container Linux) and Kubernetes. Wow, what I can say things have gone crazy mad. Both Docker and CoreOS having securing funding last year have made major inroads in to communities and enterprises around the world.  That said Kubernetes is one that is not a company has had the most attention in the last twelve months.  For obvious reasons Google was the first to put their public cloud support for Kubernetes, followed by Microsoft Azure and now I am hearing AWS is planning to do similar level of support (although nothing official from AWS yet). Hopefully something might come out of them as well. While both Docker and CoreOS are growing their business and keep contributing to the community some of the key achievements in the last 12 months were the announcements of donating runC, containerD, rkt etc to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation ( https://cncf.io ). CNCF was a busy