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The Livin' On The Edge Podcast Series

At Ambassador, we're more than just a cloud-native application development company. We're a catalyst for change in how enterprises design, deploy, and manage microservices on Kubernetes.

About the Podcast Series

Join us to learn about best practices for releasing functionality via continuous delivery pipelines, and investigate the latest developer tooling, API gateway technology, and service mesh implementations.

In our "Livin' On The Edge" series, we interview practitioners and senior technical leaders from organizations such as HashiCorp, Lyft, GitHub, Ticket Master, Buoyant, and more.

Featured Episodes

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S3 Ep14: Four P's of Platform Engineering: Key to Prosperity

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S3 Ep15: Promoting API Industry Diversity with Women in APIs' Claire Barrett

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S3 Ep16: Cutting Costs with Observability - Beyond Monitoring Best Practices

Our Host: Markeo (Kay) James

Kay James is a solutions engineer at Ambassador Labs and currently resides in New York. Passionate about technology, good food, and creating great music, Kay enjoys being able to help others solve technology problems. Prior to joining Ambassador Labs, she graduated from New York University with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.

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Livin’ on the Edge #14: Katie Gamanji on Kubernetes Tooling DX, GitOps, and the Cluster API

Be sure to check out the additional episodes of the "Livin' on the Edge" podcast. Key takeaways from the podcast included: Automation and transparency are key to creating an effective continuous delivery pipeline. Siloing based on teams or technical verticals (e.g. networking, security) leads to inefficiencies via the introduction of uncertainty who is responsible, increased handoffs, and delays in verification.

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Kelsey Hightower on Developer Experience, PaaS, and Testing in Production

Be sure to check out the additional episodes of the "Livin' on the Edge" podcast. Key takeaways from the podcast included: Custom configured and bespoke production environments, which are often combined with the manual deployment of applications, can lead to many challenges “because you're just kind of shooting in the dark and crossing your fingers at every deployment.”

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Daniel Mangum on Crossplane, Building a PaaS, and Multi-Cluster Kubernetes

Be sure to check out the additional episodes of the “Livin' on the Edge” podcast. Key takeaways from the podcast included: Crossplane is an open source cloud control plane that enables engineers to provision infrastructure from the Kubernetes API. It can be used by organisations to build and operate an internal platform-as-a-service (PaaS) across a variety of infrastructures and cloud vendors. Crossplane has recently been accepted into the CNCF as a sandbox project.

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Kubernetes Local Development, Building a PaaS, & Platform Personas

Dave Sudia, Senior DevOps Engineer at GoSpotCheck, joined Ambassador Labs to discuss creating an effective local developer experience for Kubernetes, migrating away from Heroku and building a Kubernetes-based platform as a service (PaaS), and how his team developed an understanding of all of the personas involved with creating a platform. Be sure to check out the additional episodes of the "Livin' on the Edge" podcast. Key takeaways from the podcast included:

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