Thomas Rampelberg is a software engineer with Buoyant, creators of Linkerd, and a core maintainer of that project. He is also a co-author of the Service Mesh Interface and co-creator of DC/OS. He joins Craig and Adam to talk about the two former, and pour one out for the latter.

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Chatter of the week * The BBC on Sean Connery * Noreen Malone on Alex Trebek * Celebrity Jeopardy! highlights from Saturday Night Live * Doomscrolling * Potion Explosion: analog, or digital (Steam, Android, iOS) * KerPlunk!: analog only

News of the week * Linkerd 2.9 * AWS’s response to Dockerhub: a new service * IBM adds Code Risk Analysis to Cloud CD * Helm chart deprecation + Episode 11, with Vic Iglesias * CyberArk looks at threats to Kubernetes

Links from the interview * D2iQ retires DC/OS + Kubernetes on Mesos in 2015 * The monolith * Buoyant * Linkerd * Finagle * kube-proxy before iptables * Conduit: a new mesh without the JVM, which became Linkerd 2 * Linkerd 2-proxy: + Under the hood of the Linkerd proxy + Rust + tokio runtnime and hyper HTTP libraries + Heartbleed + CNCF audit * Architecting for Multicluster Kubernetes blog post * Linkerd 2.9 + Service Topology + Gas station bathrooms * Service Mesh Interface (SMI) + NGINX Service Mesh + Flagger + Kiali + Spec * Istio WebAssembly support * Kubernetes is a domain-specific database * Tilt and Okteto * Burning Man * Thomas Rampelberg on Twitter