Programming Throwdown Episode 135 Kubernetes with Iran Kana.

Take it away, Jason.

Hey, everybody.

So you might have heard the term Kubernetes or clustering or these kind of terms containers

and pods and kind of wondered, what is that?

You know, that is a whole other universe, especially if you're in university.

You might have a Kubernetes cluster at your

university, but you're just a person who's using it. I bet your email server is probably running

on a Kubernetes cluster you might not even know. And so we're going to really dive into

what all of these things are and unpack them, which thing is going to be really, really

exciting and super valuable. And to do that, we have Aran Kana on the show. Thanks for coming on the show, Aran. Hey, thank you so much for having me, Jason and Patrick. It's great to be here. Great. Yeah. So Aran is the co-founder of Archerra, which is a startup that focuses on cloud optimization. And he is an expert on Kubernetes, and he's going

to kind of really unpack all of it for us. But before we get into that, you know,

Iran, like, how did you get started in tech? And what's been your journey like? Yeah, well, I can

give you kind of the short version. I was born and raised here in Seattle around the time of, you know,

the 90s boom in Microsoft and then the subsequent boom in Amazon and AWS coming online,

just as I was sort of coming up. But ironically, I had nothing to do with tech, didn't want to work

in it. I was actually very into biology and synthetic biology, biotech, as it's now called. And I was

doing an internship my senior year before I was going off to college in that space,

in a biotech startup working on algae, trying to engineer them to create biofuels.

And my cycle times on my experiments were like three weeks and the algae would all die.

The fungus would come in.

Like it was just such a nightmare.

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