Hi beautiful people,
I hope you are doing great and that you have had a great week.
Here is a photo of my dog Arkady and me doing some gardening over the weekend. What are your plans for this weekend?
This week's newsletter has some amazing resources on leadership, new project introductions, CNCF news, events and more.
Enjoy ✨
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Women in Tech highlight of the week 🔦
At Women in DevOps, our aim is to help close the DevOps gender gap, and inspire the future leaders of the DevOps world. 🌎 ✨
— Women in DevOps (@WomenInDevOps) July 5, 2023
Find out more by visiting our website: https://t.co/e2qIl1KMw4#WomeninDevOps #EmpoweredPeopleEmpowerPeople pic.twitter.com/QzdOkYR5fa
Melanie Perkins was rejected by over 100 VCs.
— Arjun Mahadevan (Mr. LLC 🇺🇸) (@ArjunMahadevan) July 8, 2023
Now, she's a tech billionaire, and her $26B startup, Canva, is ready to take on Microsoft and Google.
Here are 5 motivational quotes from Melanie for any aspiring or current entrepreneur:
1) "Solve customer problems and make sure… pic.twitter.com/SmgjbNcSE0
Career Development ♢
I've recently been running some mentoring sessions, and several folks have asked about leadership and management. These are my go-to book recommendations 📚 pic.twitter.com/nBFpEogKoI
— Daniel Bryant (@danielbryantuk) July 4, 2023
Content from across the space ✍🏻
- Scaling Video Encoding With Node.js and Kubernetes
- ⚡️ Enlightning - Exploring External Secrets Operator
- Is Timoni With CUE a Helm Replacement?
- Understanding Counter Rates and Increases in PromQL | Reset Handling, Extrapolation, Edge Cases
- A Brief History of Containers: From the 1970s Till Now
CNCF News
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Reaffirms Istio Maturity with Project Graduation – Congrats to Istio!!
Upcoming conferences 📅
- StackConf Berlin 13th to 14th of September (in person)
- Swiss Cloud Native Day September 20th to 21st (in person)
- KCD Austria September 26th and 27th (in person)
- Full Stack Europe Oct 18th to 20th (in person)
Something interesting I came across on Twitter 💡
I worked in a startup that began by operating Kubernetes and 150+ microservices.
— Dmytro Krasun (@DmytroKrasun) July 4, 2023
Can you predict what happened to the startup? And how fast was the delivery speed?
Tweet of the Week 🐦
This week's tweet of the week is by Jim Fan
