Kubernetes is fast becoming the standard underlying platform for modern micro-service based systems. It provides the means for application and container orchestration. As an orchestator, it is mature in the generic domain of stateless services. In addition to enabling rapid scaling changes, it provides self-heal ability reducing the burden on the devops team. As organizations move from the generic domain to workloads that require very specific orchestration needs, there is a need to provide operators in the cluster that manage those concerns for the purpose of reducing devops workload. Deploying these techniques, provides customized automated self-healthing and scaling enabling up-time and reducing overall costs.
Ken is a distributed application engineer. Ken has worked with Fortune 500 companies to small startups in the roles of developer, designer, application architect and enterprise architect. Ken's current focus is on containers, container orchestration, high scale micro-service design and continuous delivery systems.
Ken is an international speaker on the subject of software engineering speaking at conferences such as JavaOne, JavaZone, Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS), and The Strange Loop. He is a regular speaker with NFJS where he is best known for his architecture and security hacking talks. In 2009, Ken was honored by being awarded the JavaOne Rockstar Award at JavaOne in SF, California and the JavaZone Rockstar Award at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway as the top ranked speaker.