Episode 2: APIs and IPAs

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05/08/21 • 39 min

Show Notes:

Special thanks to Lance's son, Alex for creating the new intro entirely on his own from scratch.

Show Notes:

Special thanks to Lance's son, Alex for creating the new intro entirely on his own from scratch.

Kubernetes is a Playground

Discussed:

Kubernetes - The main topic and the container orchestration system originally built and open sourced at Google.
Lens - a visual kubernetes tool
Visual Studio Code - A Code Editor
helm - The package manager for Kubernetes
kind - Kubernetes in Docker
Micro k8s - Simple lightweight production grade kubernetes by Canonical, the maintainers of Ubuntu.
k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes
Reinvent - Amazon Web Services conference
EKS - Amazon's managed kubernetes service
GKE - Google's managed kubernetes service
Preemptible Nodes - Short lived nodes on Google that are a fraction of the normal cost.
DKS - Digital Ocean's managed kubernetes service
Kustomize - Kubernetes native config management

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How can you build an API that has a good developer experience?
On solving problems for who's trying to use your api
Documentation acting as an API's UI/UX
What Greg and I remember about being rejected from Y Combinator
How we learned how to program
Favorite APIs
Slack's API
A short story about the hockey API that I glued together to flash lights when my team scored on TV.

Special thanks to Lance's son, Alex, for creating the new intro entirely on his own from scratch.