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Episode 4 - Squad Goals and Bourbon with IBM's Jake "Kitch" Kitchener
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:46:02
Publish Date: 2020-04-08 04:00:22
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Jake "Kitch" Kitchener is Architect for IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service/Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud, STSM. and self professed Kubernetes madman. (and even cowrote a book to prove it: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/kubernetes-in-the/9781492043270/

Kitch and I spent time talking through his life at IBM, the early years, trials and tribulations of IBM Cloud Kubernetes service, Sysdig Partnership, including our announcement today of Sysdig's expanded partnership with IBM https://sysdig.com/blog/ibm-cloud-sysdig-prometheus/

Kitch also spent time discussing his methodology around building teams and trust between development and offering teams all the way up to executive sponsorship.  building teams with the same vigor as your development process.

Lastly we pour some bourbon out and go deep discussing Bourbon, ABC liquor stores, scatman carruthers and waterford crystal glasses.  

Kitch was a pleasure to speak to!

Talking Points:

01:43 - Discussing Kitchener’s time working at IBM
07:01 - It seems like you worked at a bunch of startups within IBM, different product groups and what have you?
10:41 - So talk to me about Bluemix and IKS now
16:54 - What do you think of the IBM relationship with Sysdig? 
19:57 - Building teams as a development process
26:07 - Discussing what makes a good development manager
34:33 - Let’s talk about the ABC (What is an ABC store?) 
37:54 - What else is on the shelf right now? 
43:01 - Where’s a place you like to grab a drink? 

 

 
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