Software Defined Interviews

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Software Defined Interviews

Episodes (126)

Wed Mar 4th Art Degrees, Sun Microsystems, and How Kubernetes Scales Contributions, with Josh Berkus
Feb 18th Progressive Delivery, with Heidi Waterhouse
Feb 5th AI, open source, talent, and more, live at cfgmgmtcamp 2026, with Andrew Clay Shafer

Software Defined Interviews

Mar 4, 2026
1 hours
68 MB

Whitney and Coté discuss with Josh Berkus (Red Hat, Kubernetes contributor) how liberal and fine arts degrees (philosophy, photography, sculpture, pottery) apply to tech careers. Berkus details how early hardware experience influenced his database performance work, noting hardware's renewed relevance with AI and multi-arch computing. The conversation covers Sun Microsystems’ 1990s internet role, internal politics, and its MySQL/Postgres strategy. They examine open source's shift from end-user to vendor-driven models, foundations' roles, and contributor incentives. Berkus describes Kubernetes release processes, contributor-experience programs, and its resilience to low-quality AI contributions. You can also watch the video recording of thi...

Software Defined Interviews

Art Degrees, Sun Microsystems, and How Kubernetes Scales Contributions, with Josh Berkus

Software Defined Talk

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