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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 Sie...

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.

About  few weeks back I started listening to AWS Tech Chat by Dr. Pete Stanski and Russell Nash on SoundCloud. They are solutions architects of AWS from Australia. Since started listening to their podcats I can now ignore the emails from AWS about their product launch notifications. They cover a most of these latest product updates and deep technical insights into AWS products and services. It is less marketing more technical (otherwise I wouldn't have listened to it). So far they are doing a great job, and if you haven't listened to it before I strongly suggest you give it a go and I am sure you will like it. You might also be able to crack some of the wording Dr. Pete use for URL (urrl) and AMI (amy). It is fun and interesting. I guess my question to Dr. Pete and Russ is when are you gents going to cover AWS Kubernetes offering? given Google and Microsoft are talking a lot about it these days (surprising to without annoying me).  

According Netcraft : DigitalOcean is now the 2nd largest hosting company. As per the recent Netcraft survey on all web facing server counts they reported that DigitalOcean is the 2nd largest hosting company behind AWS. Growth of DigitalOcean is largely due to  Simplicity and Pricing, not to mention the coolness. Last count they have deployed over 5.6m droplets and 450,000 developers.

You can read the full article written by Joe Fernandes at - OpenShift blog  on why RedHat chose not to join CloudFoundry Foundation. My Comments (given the original blog post is closed for comments, I decided to write my own comments). I have no issues with RedHat not joining CloudFoundry. It is their freedom of choice as to which foundations they join. However I was slightly disappointed in some of the comments/notes by the writer. Of course one could argue, that it is the freedom to write what you like :-).  " Cloud Foundry commercial vendors like Pivotal and IBM should recognize that the path to enterprise success is on Red Hat Enterprise Linux rather than Ubuntu and thus certify Cloud Foundry on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and eventually Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host." If RedHat was keen to help, shouldn't you join the foundation and get CF certified on RedHat Enterprise Linux, rather than waiting for the vendors such as IBM, Pivotal to come forwa...

There is no doubt that Open Source is leading innovation in Cloud Technologies. However one cannot go without noticing the attention generated for the following three Open Source projects. Interestingly these projects are getting the support from previously not so Open Source friendly companies such as Microsoft. However it is also interesting to hear that Amazon is not jumping on them in a big way yet ???  What are these projects? Docker Going by the definition from Docker website, "Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications. Consisting of Docker Engine, a portable, lightweight runtime and packaging tool, and Docker Hub, a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows, Docker enables apps to be quickly assembled from components and eliminates the friction between development, QA, and production environments. As a result, IT can ship faster and run the same app, unchanged, on laptops, data cen...