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Episode 5 - Going independent and Cloud Native Open Source with Alex Ellis
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:48:20
Publish Date: 2020-04-09 16:16:38
Description:

Alex Ellis radiates at a frequency others do not, Alex's ability to make complex concepts easy to use and accessible is second to none.  Alex help companies on their Cloud Native journey, to create leading content, and to build enduring community.  On the POPCAST, we have a chat about his beginnings, his current freelance company and projects.  We delve deep into how going freelance has certain challenges and what advice he would give to people just starting out.  We discuss his open source vs commercial work, and round out the conversation with amazing things you can do with Raspberry Pi's

Alex's Home Page https://www.alexellis.io/

Sponsor Alex: https://github.com/sponsors/alexellis/

VIDEO HERE: https://youtu.be/66mMC9w-dM4

Talking Points: 

01:57 - When you started that, is that just you learning the technology and imparting it to other people? Is that what you’re trying to do? 
07:06 - What led you to the world we’re in right now? 
14:24 - Talk to me about seeing the responses from some of your contributions?
18:09 - Have access to an Alex Ellis, there should be a monetary component to that. Someone who understands your talent and understands how to get that from a commercial perspective
23:19 - Alex’s learnings on business development in open source 
28:42 - Discussing tangible things that make technology approachable to be able to use it quickly 
34:40 - Exploring K3S, cluster naming, and running Arcade on Raspberry Pi 
36:15 - Inlets cloud native tunnel, Kubernetes, installing OpenFaaS with Arcade, and getting on the internet 
43:00 - Talk to me about, when was your first discovery of using a Raspberry Pi for something other than playing emulator games? 
45:45 - What work are you most proud of?
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