Dustin Kirkland, Canonical | KubeCon 2017
>> Announcer: Live from Austin, Texas, it's theCUBE. Covering KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2017. Brought to you by: Red Hat, the Linux Foundation, and theCUBE's ecosystem partners. >> Hey, welcome back everyone. And we're live here in Austin, Texas. This is theCUBE's exclusive coverage of the Cloud Native conference and KubeCon for Kubernetes Conference. This is for the Linux Foundation. This is theCUBE. I'm John Furrier, the co-founder of Silicon ANGLE Media. My co, Stu Miniman. Our next guest is Dustin Kirkland Vice-President of product. The Ubuntu, Canonical, welcome to theCUBE. >> Thank you, John. >> So you're the product guy. You get the keys to the kingdom, as they would say in the product circles. Man, what a best time to be-- >> Dustin: They always say that. I don't think I've heard that one. >> Well, the product guys are, well all the action's happening on the product side. >> Dustin: We're right in the middle of it. >> Cause you got to have a road map. You got to have a 20 mile steer on the next horizon while you go up into the pasture and deliver value, but you always got to be watching for it always making decision on what to do, when to ship product, not you got the Cloud things are happening at a very accelerated rate. And then you got to bring it out to the customers. >> That's right. >> You're livin' on both sides of the world You got to look inside, you got to look outside. >> All three. There's the marketing angle too. which is what we're doing here right now. So there's engineering sales and this is the marketing. >> Alright so where are we with this? Because now you guys have always been on the front lines of open source. Great track record. Everyone knows the history there. What are the new things? What's the big aha moment that this event, largest they've had ever. They're not even three years old. Why is this happening? >> I love seeing these events in my hometown Austin, Texas. So I hope we keep coming back. The aha moment is how application development is fundamentally changing. Cloud Native is the title of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and CloudNativeConference here. What does Cloud Native mean? It's a different form of writing applications. Just before we were talking about systems programing right? That's not exactly Cloud Native. Cloud Native programming is writing to API's that are Cloud exposed API's, integrating with software as a service. Creating applications that have no intelligence, whatsoever, about what's underneath them, Right? But taking advantage of that and all the ways that you would want and expect in a modern application. Fault tolerance, automatic updates, hyper security. Just security, security, security. That is the aha moment. The way applications are being developed is fundamentally changing. >> Interesting perspective we had on earlier. Lew Tucker from Cisco, (mumbles) in the (mumbles) History Museum, CTO at Cisco, and we have Kelsey Hightower co-chair for this conference and also very active in the community. Yet, in the perspective, and I'll over simplify and generalize it, but basically was: Hey, that's been going on for 30 years, it's just different now. Tell us the old way and new way. Because the old way, you kind of describing it you're going to build your own stuff, full stack, building all parts of the stack and do a lot of stuff that you didn't want to do. And now you have more, especially time on your hands if DevOps and infrastructure as code starts to happen. But doesn't mean that networking goes away, doesn't mean storage goes away, that some new lines are forming. Describe that dynamic of what's new and the new way what changes from the old way? >> Virtualization has brought about a different way of thinking about resources. Be those compute resources, chopping CPU's up into virtual CPU's, that's KVM ware. You mentioned network and storage. Now we virtualized both of those into software defined storage and software defined networking, right? We have things like OpenStack that brings that all together from an infrastructure perspective. and we now have Kubernetes that brings that to fare from an application perspective. Kubernetes helps you think about applications in a different way. I said that paradigm has changed. It's Kubernetes that helps implement that paradigm. So that developers can write an application to a container orchestrator like Kubernetes and take advantage of many of the advances we've made below that layer in the operating system and in the Cloud itself. So from that perspective the game has changed and the way you write your application is not the same as a the monolithic app we might have written on an IBM or a traditional system. >> Dustin, you say monolithic app versus oh my gosh the multi layered cake that we have today. We were talking about the keynote this morning where CNCF went from four projects to 14 projects, you got Kubernetes, You got things like DSDU on top. Help up tease that a little bit. What are the ones that, where's canonical engaged? What are you hearing from customers? What are they excited about? What are they still looking for? >> In a somewhat self-serving way, I'll use this opportunity to explain exactly what we do in helping build that layered cake. It starts with the OS. We provide a great operating system, Ubuntu that every developer would certainly know and understand and appreciate. That's the kernel, that's the systemd, that's the hyperviser, that's all the storage and drivers that makes an operating system work well on hardware. Lot's of hardware, IBM, Dell HP, Intel, all the rest. As well as in virtual machines, the public Clouds, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, VM ware and others. So, we take care of that operating system perspective. Within the CNCF and within in the Kubernetes ecosystem, It really starts with the Kubernetes distribution. So we provide a Kubernetes distribution, we call it Canonicals Distribution of Kubernetes, CDK. Which is open source Kubernetes with security patches applied. That's it. No special sauce, no extra proprietary extensions. It is open source Kubernetes. The reference platform for open source Kubernetes 100% conformed. Now, once you have Kubernetes as you say, "What are you hearing from customers?" We hear a lot of customers who want a Kubernetes. Once they have a Kubernetes, the next question is: "Now what do I do with it?" If they have applications that their developers have been writing to Google's Kubernetes Engine GKE, or Amazon's Kubernetes Engine, the new one announced last week at re:Invent, AKS. Or Microsoft's Kubernetes Engine, Microsoft-- >> Microsoft's AKS, Amazons EKS. A lot of TLA's out there, always. >> Thank you for the TLA dissection. If you've written the applications already having your own Kubernetes is great, because then your applications simply port and run on that. And we help customers get there. However, if you haven't written your first application, that's where actually, most of the industry is today. They want a Kubernetes, but they're not sure why. So, to that end, we're helping bring some of the interesting workloads that exists, open source workloads and putting those on top of Canonical Kubernetes. Yesterday, we press released a new product from Canonical, launched in conjunction with our partners at Rancher Labs, Which is the Cloud Native platform. The Cloud Native platform is Ubuntu plus Kubernetes plus Rancher. That combination, we've heard from customers and from users of Ubuntu inside and out. Everyone's interested in a developer work flow that includes open-source Ubuntu, open-source Kubernetes and open-source Rancher, Which really accelerates the velocity of development. And that end solution provides exactly that and it helps populate, that Kubernetes with really interesting workloads. >> Dustin, so we know Sheng, Shannon and the team, they know a thing or two about building stacks with open source. We've talked with you many times, OpenStack. Give us a little bit of compare and contrast, what we've been doing with OpenStack with Canonical, very heavily involved, doing great there versus the Cloud Native stacking. >> If you know Shannon and Sheng, I think you can understand and appreciate why Mark, myself and the rest of the Canonical team are really excited about this partnership. We really see eye-to-eye on open source principles First. Deliver great open source experiences first. And then taking that to market with a product that revolves around support. Ultimately, developer option up front is what's important, and some of those developer applications will make its way into production in a mission critical sense. Which open up support opportunities for both of us. And we certainly see eye-to-eye from that perspective. What we bring to bare is Ubuntu ecosystem of developers. The Ubuntu OpenStack infrastructure is a service where we've seen many of the world's largest organizations deploying their OpenStacks. Doing so on Ubuntu and with Ubuntu OpenStacks. With the launch of Kubernetes and Canonical Kubernetes, many of those same organizations are running their own Kubernetes along side OpenStack. Or, in some cases, on top of OpenStack. In a very few cases, instead of Openstack, in very special cases, often at the Edge or in certain tiny Cloud or micro Cloud scenarios. In all of these we see Rancher as a really, really good partner in helping to accelerate that developer work flow. Enabling developers to write code, commit code to GitHub repository, with full GitHub integration. Authenticate against an active directory with full RBAC controls. Everything that you would need in an enterprise to bring that application to bare from concept, to development, to test into production, and then the life cycle, once it gains its own life in production. >> What about the impact of customers? So, I'm an IT guy or I'm an architect and man, all this new stuff's comin' at me. I love my open source, I'm happy with space. I don't want to touch it, don't want to break it, but I want to innovate. This whole world can be a little bit noisy and new to them. How do you have that conversation with that potential customer or customer where you say, Look, we can get there. Use your app team here's what you want to shape up to be, here's service meshes and plugable, Whoa plugable (mumbles)! So, again, how do you simplify that when you have conversations? What's the narrative? What's the conversation like? >> Usually our introduction into the organization of a Fortune 500 company is by the developers inside of that company who already know Ubuntu. Who already have some experience with Kubernetes or have some experience with Rancher or any of those other-- >> So it's a bottoms up? >> Yeah, it's bottoms up. Absolutely, absolutely. The developer network around Ubuntu is far bigger than the organization that is Canonical. So that helps us with the intro. Once we're in there, and the developers write those first few apps, we do get the introductions to their IT director who then wants that comfy blanket. Customer support, maybe 24 by seven-- >> What's the experience like? Is it like going to the airport, go through TSA, and you got to take your shoes off, take your belt off. What kind of inspection, what is kind of is the culture because they want to move fast, but they got to be sure. There's always been the challenge when you have the internal advocate saying, "Look, if we want to go this way "this is going to be more the reality for companies." Developers are now major influencers. Not just some, here's the product we made a decision and they ship it to 'em, it's shifted. >> If there's one thing that I've learned in this sort of product management assignment, I'm a engineer by trade, but as a product manager now for almost five years, is that you really have to look at the different verticals and some verticals move at vastly different paces than other verticals. When we are in the tele close phase, We're in RFI's, requests for a quote or a request for information that may last months, nine months. And then go through entering into a procurement process that may last another nine months. And we're talking about 18 months in an industry here that is spinning up, we're talking about how fast this goes, which is vastly different than the work we do in Silicon Valley, right? With some of the largest dot-coms in the world that are built on Ubuntu, maybe an AWS or else where. Their adoption curve is significantly different and the procurement angle is really different. What they're looking to buy often on the US West Coast is not so much support, but they're looking to guide your roadmap. We offer for customers of that size and scale a different set of products something we call feature sponsorships, where those customers are less interested in 24 by seven telephone support and far more interested in sponsoring certain features into Ubuntu itself and helping drive the Ubuntu roadmap. We offer both of those a products and different verticals buy in different ways. We talked to media and entertainment, and the conversation's completely different. Oil and gas, conversation's completely different. >> So what are you doing here? What's the big effort at CloudNativeCon? >> So we've got a great booth and we're talking about Ubuntu as a pretty universal platform for almost anything you're doing in the Cloud. Whether that's on frame infrastructure as a service, OpenStack. People can coo coo OpenStack and point OpenStack versus Kubernetes against one another. We cannot see it more differently-- >> Well no I think it's more that it's got clarity on where the community's lines are because apps guys are moving off OpenStack that's natural. It's really found the home, OpenStack very relevant huge production flow, I talk to Johnathon Bryce about this all the time. There's no co cooing OpenStack. It's not like it's hurting. Just to clarify OpenStack is not going anywhere its just that there's been some comments about OpenStack refugees going to (mumbles), but they're going there anyway! Do you agree? >> Yeah I agree, and that choice is there on Ubuntu. So infrastructure is a service, OpenStack's a fantastic platform, platforms as a service or Cloud Native through Cloud Native development Kubernetes is an excellent platform. We see those running side by side. Two racks a systems or a single rack. Half of those machines are OpenStack, Half of those are Kubernetes and the same IT department manages both. We see IT departments that are all in OpenStack. Their entire data center is OpenStack. And we see Kubernetes as one workload inside of that Openstack. >> How do you see Kubernetes impact on containers? A lot of people are coo cooing containers. But they're not going anywhere either. >> It's fundamental. >> The ecosystem's changing, certainly the roles of each part (mumbles) is exploding. How do you talk about that? What's your opinion on how containers are evolving? >> Containers are evolving, but they've been around for a very long time as well. Kubernetes has helped make containers consumable. And doctored to an extent, before that the work we've done around Linux containers LXE LEXT as well. All of those technologies are fundamental to it and it take tight integration with the OS. >> Dustin, so I'm curious. One of the big challenges I have the U face is the proliferation of deployments for customers. It's not just data center or even Cloud. Edge is now a very big piece of it. How do you think that containers helps enable the little bit of that Cloud Native goes there, but what kind of stresses does that put on your product organization? >> Containers are adding fuel to the fire on both the Edge and the back end Cloud. What's exciting to me about the Edge is that every Edge device, every connected device is connected to something. What's it connected to, a Cloud somewhere. And that can be an OpenStack Cloud or a Kubernetes Cloud, that can be a public Cloud, that could be a private implementation of that Cloud. But every connected device, whether its a car or a plane or a train or a printer or a drone it's connected to something, it's connected to a bunch of services. We see containers being deployed on Ubuntu on those Edge devices, as the packaging format, as the application format, as the multi-tendency layer that keeps one application from DOSing or attacking or being protected from another application on that Edge device. We also see containers running the micro services in the Cloud on Ubuntu there as well. The Edge to me, is extremely interesting in how it ties back to the Cloud and to be transparent here, Canonical strategy and Canonical's play is actually quiet strong here with Ubuntu providing quite a bit of consistency across those two layers. So developers working on those applications on those devices, are often sitting right next to the developers working on those applications in the Cloud and both of them are seeing Ubuntu helping them go faster. >> Bottom line, where do you see the industry going and how do you guys fit into the next three years, what's your prediction? >> I'm going to go right back to what I was saying right there. That the connection between the Edge and the Cloud is our angle right there, and there is nothing that's stopping that right now. >> We were just talking with Joe Beda and our view is if it's a shoot and computing world, everything's an Edge. >> Yeah, that's right. That's exactly right. >> (mumbles) is an Edge. A light in a house is an Edge with a processor in it. >> So I think the data centers are getting smarter. You wanted a prediction for next year: The data center is getting smarter. We're seeing autonomous data centers. We see data centers using metals as a service mask to automatically provision those systems and manage those systems in a way that hardware look like a Cloud. >> AI and IOT, certainly two topics that are really hot trends that are very relevant as changing storage and networking those industries have to transform. Amazon's tele (mumbles), everything like LAN and serverless, you're starting to see the infrastructure as code take shape. >> And that's what sits on top of Kubernetes. That's what's driving Kubernetes adoption are those AI machine learning artificial intelligence workloads. A lot of media and transcoding workloads are taking advantage of Kubernetes everyday. >> Bottom line, that's software. Good software, smart software. Dustin, Thanks so much for coming theCube. We really appreciate it. Congratulations. Continued developer success. Good to have a great ecosystem. You guys have been successful for a very long time. As the world continues to be democratized with software as it gets smarter more pervasive and Cloud computing, grid computing, Unigrid. Whatever it's called it is all done by software and the Cloud. Thanks for coming on. It's theCube live coverage from Austin, Texas, here at KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2017. I'm John Furrier, Stu Miniman, We'll be back with more after this short break. (lively music)
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Matt Klein, Lyft | KubeCon 2017
>> Narrator: Live from Austin Texas. It's theCUBE, covering KubeKon and CloudNativeCon 2017. Brought to you by Red Hat, the Linux Foundation, and theCUBE's ecosystem partners. >> Welcome back everyone, live here in Austin Texas, theCUBE's exclusive coverage of CloudNativeConference and KubeKon, for Kubernetes' Conference. I'm John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE and my co-host Stu Miniman, our analyst. And next is Matt Klein, a software engineer at Lyft, ride-hailing service, car sharing, social network, great company, everyone knows that everyone loves Lyft. Thanks for coming on. >> Thanks very much for having me. >> All right so you're a customer of all this technology. You guys built, and I think this is like the shiny use cases of our generation, entrepreneurs and techies build their own stuff because they can't get product from the general market. You guys had a large-scale demand for the service, you had to go out and build your own with open source and all those tools, you had a problem you had to solve, you build it, used some open source and then give it back to open source and be part of the community, and everybody wins, you donated it back. This is, this is the future, this is what it's going to be like, great community work. What problem were you solving? Obviously Lyft, everyone knows it's hard, they see their car, lot of real time going on, lot of stuff happening >> Matt: Yeah, sure. >> magic's happening behind the scenes, you had to build that. Talk about the problem you solved. >> Well, I think, you know, when people look at Lyft, like you were saying, they look at the app and the car, and I think many people think that it's a relative simple thing. Like how hard could it be to bring up your app and say, I want a ride, and you know, get that car from here to there, but it turns out that it's really complicated. There's a lot of real-time systems involved in actually finding what are all the cars that are near you, and what's the fastest route, all of that stuff. So, I think what people don't realize is that Lyft is a very large, real-time system that, at current scale, operates at millions of requests per second, and has a lot of different use cases around databases, and caching, you know, all those technologies. So, Lyft was built on open source, as you say, and, you know Lyft grew from what I think most companies do, which is a very simple, monolithic stack, you know, it starts with a PHP application, we're a big user of MongoDB, and some load balancer, and then, you know-- >> John: That breaks (laughs) >> Well, well no but but people do that because that's what's very quick to do. And I think what happened, like most companies, is, or that most companies that become very successful, is Lyft grew a lot, and like the few companies that can become very successful, they start to outgrow some of that basic software, or the basic pieces that they're actually using. So, as Lyft started to grow a lot, things just didn't actually start working, so then we had to start fixing and building different things. >> Yeah, Matt, scale is one of those things that gets talked about a lot. But, I mean Lyft, you know, really does operate at a significant scale. >> Matt: Yeah, sure. >> Maybe you can talk a little bit about, you know, what kind of things were breaking, >> Matt: Absolutely, yeah, and then what led to Envoy and why that happened. >> Yeah, sure. I mean, I think there's two different types of scale, and I think this is something that people don't talk about enough. There's scale in terms of things that people talk about, in terms of data throughput or requests per second, or stuff like that. But there's also people scale, right. So, as organizations grow, we go from 10 developers to 50 developers to 100, where Lyft is now many hundreds of developers and we're continuing to grow, and what I think people don't talk about enough is the human scale, so you know, so we have a lot of people that are trying to edit code, and at a certain size, that number of people, you can't all be editing on that same code base. So that's I think the biggest move where people start moving towards this microservice or service-oriented architecture, so you start splitting that apart to get people-scale. People-scale probably usually comes with requests per second scale and data scale and that kind of stuff. But these problems come hand in hand, where as you grow the number of people, you start going into microservices, and then suddenly you have actual scale problems. The database is not working, or the network is not actually reliable. So from Envoy perspective, so Envoy is an open source proxy we built at Lyft, it's now part of CNCF, it's having tremendous uptake across the industry, which is fantastic, and the reason that we built Envoy is what we're seeing now in the industry is people are moving towards polyglot architectures, so they're moving towards architectures with many different applications, or many different languages. And it used to be that you could use Java and you could have one particular library that would do all of your networking and service discovery and load balancing, and now you might have six different languages. So how as an organization do you actually deal with that? And what we decided to do was build an out-of-process proxy, which allows people to build a lot of functionality into one place, around load balancing, and service discovery, and rate limiting, and buffering, and all those kinds of things, and also most importantly, observability. So things like tracing and stats and logging. And that allowed us to actually understand what was going on in the network, so that when problems were happening, we could actually debug what was going on. And what we saw at Lyft, about three years ago, is we had started our microservices journey, but it was actually almost, it was almost stopped, because what people found is they had started to build services because supposedly it was faster than the monolith, but then we would start having problems with tail latency and other things, and they didn't know hot to debug it. So they didn't trust those services, and then at that point they say, not surprisingly, we're just going to go back and we're going to build it back into the monolith. So, we're almost in that situation where things are kind of in that split. >> So Matt I have to think that's the natural, where you led to service mesh, and Istio specifically and Lyft, Google, IBM all working on that. Talk a little bit about, more about what Istio, it was really the buzz coming in with service mesh, there's also there's some competing offerings out there, Conduit, new one announced this week, maybe give us the landscape, kind of where we are, and what you're seeing. >> So I think service mesh is, it's incredible to look around this conference, I think there's 15 or more talks on service mesh between all of the Buoyant talks on Linker D and Conduit and Istio and Envoy, it's super fantastic. I think the reason that service mesh is so compelling to people is that we have these problems where people want to build in five or six languages, they have some common problems around load balancing and other types of things, and this is a great solution for offloading some of those problems into a common place. So, the confusion that I see right now around the industry is service mesh is really split into two pieces. It's split into the data plane, so the proxy, and the control plane. So the proxy's the thing that actually moves the bytes, moves the requests, and the control plane is the thing that actually tells all the proxies what to do, tells it the topology, tells it all the configurations, all the settings. So the landscape right now is essentially that Envoy is a proxy, it's a data plane. Envoy has been built into a bunch of control planes, so Istio is a control plane, it's reference proxy is Envoy, though other companies have shown that they can integrate with Istio. Linker D has shown that, NGINX has shown that. Buoyant just came out with a new combined control plane data plane service mesh called Conduit, that was brand new a couple days ago, and I think we're going to see other companies get in there, because this is a very popular paradigm, so having the competition is good. I think it's going to push everyone to be better. >> How do companies make sense of this, I mean, if I'm just a boring enterprise with complexity, legacy, you know I have a lot of stuff, maybe not the kind of scale in terms of transactions per second, because they're not Lyft, but they still have a lot of stuff. They got servers, they got data center, they got stuff in the cloud, they're trying to put this cloud native package in because the developer movement is clearly pushing the legacy guy, old guard, into cloud. So how does your stuff translate into the mainstream, how would you categorize it? >> Well, what I counsel people is, and I think that's actually a problem that we have within the industry, is that I think sometimes we push people towards complexity that they don't necessarily need yet. And I'm not saying that all of these cloud native technologies aren't great, right, I mean people here are doing fantastic things. >> You know how to drive a car, so to speak, you don't know how to use the tech. >> Right, and I advise companies and organizations to use the technology and the complexity that they need. So I think that service mesh and microservices and tracing and a lot of the stuff that's being talked about at this conference are very important if you have the scale to have a service-oriented microservice architecture. And, you know, some enterprises they're segmented enough where they may not actually need a full microservice real-time architecture. So I think that the thing to actually decide is, number one, do you need a microservice architecture, and it's okay if you don't, that's just fine, take the complexity that you need. If you do need a microservice architecture, then I think you're going to have a set of common problems around things like networking, and databases, and those types of things, and then yes, you are probably going to need to build in more complicated technologies to actually deal with that. But the key takeaway is that as you bring on, as you bring on more complexity, the complexity is a snowballing effect. More complexity yields more complexity. >> So Matt, might be a little bit out of bounds for what we're talking about, but when I think about autonomous vehicles, that's just going to put even more strain on the kind of the distributed natured systems, you know, things that have to have the edge, you know. Are we laying the groundwork at a conference like this? How's Lyft looking at this? >> For sure, and I mean, we're obviously starting to look into autonomous a lot, obviously Uber's doing that a fair amount, and if you actually start looking at the sheer amount of data that is generated by these cars when they're actually moving around, it's terabytes and terabytes of data, you start thinking through the complexity of ingesting that data from the cars into a cloud and actually analyzing it and doing things with it either offline or in real-time, it's pretty incredible. So, yes, I think that these are just more massive scale real-time systems that require more data, more hard drives, more networks, and as you manage more things with more people, it becomes more complicated for sure. >> What are you doing inside Lyft, your job. I mean obviously, you're involved in open source. Like, what are you coding specifically these days, what's the current assignment? >> Yeah, so I'm a software engineer at Lyft, I lead our networking team. Our networking team owns obviously all the stuff that we do with Envoy, we own our edge system, so basically how internet traffic comes into Lyft, all of our service discovery systems, rate limiting, auth between services. We're increasingly owning our GRPC communications, so how people define their APIs, moving from a more polling-based API to a more push-based API. So our team essentially owns the end-to-end pipe from all of our back-end services to the client, so that's APIs, analytics, stats, logging, >> So to the app >> Yeah, right, right, to the app, so, on the phone. So that's my job. I also help a lot with general kind of infrastructure architecture, so we're increasingly moving towards Kubernetes, so that's a big thing that we're doing at Lyft. Like many companies of Lyft's kind of age range, we started on VMs and AWS and we used SaltStack and you know, it's the standard story from companies that were probably six or eight years old. >> Classic dev ops. >> Right, and >> Gen One devops. >> And now we're trying to move into the, as you say, Gen Two world, which is pretty fantastic. So this is becoming, probably, the most applicable conference for us, because we're obviously doing a lot with service mesh, and we're leading the way with Envoy. But as we integrate with technologies like Istio and increasingly use Kubernetes, and all of the different related technologies, we are trying to kind of get rid of all of our bespoke stuff that many companies like Lyft had, and we're trying to get on that general train. >> I mean you guys, I mean this is going to be written in the history books, you look at this time in a generation, I mean this is going to define open source for a long, long time, because, I say Gen one kind of sounds pejorative but it's not. It's really, you need to build your own, you couldn't just buy Oracle database, because, you probably have some maybe Oracle in there, but like, you build your own. Facebook did it, you guys are doing it. Why, because you're badass, you had to. Otherwise you don't build customers. >> Right and I absolutely agree about that. I think we are in a very unique time right now, and I actually think that if you look out 10 years, and you look at some of the services that are coming online, and like Amazon just did Fargate, that whole container scheduling system, and Azure has one, and I think Google has one, but the idea there is that in 10 years' time, people are really going to be writing business logic, they're going to insert that business logic >> They may do a powerpoint slides. >> That would be nice. >> I mean it's easy to me, like powerpoint, it's so easy, that's, I'm not going to say that's coding, but that's the way it should be. >> I absolutely agree, and we'll keep moving towards that, but the way that's going to happen is, more and more plumbing if you will, will get built into these clouds, so that people don't have to worry about all this stuff. But we're in this intermediate time, where people are building these massive scale systems, and the pieces that they need is not necessarily there. >> I've been saying in theCUBE now for multiple events, all through this last year, kind of crystallized and we were talking about with Kelsey about this, Hightower, yesterday, craft is coming back to programming. So you've got software engineering, and you've got craftsmanship. And so, there's real software engineering being done, it's engineering. Application development is going to go back to the old school of real craft. I mean, Agile, all it did was create a treadmill of de-risking rapid build scale, by listening to data and constantly iterating, but it kind of took the craft out of it. >> I agree. >> But that turned into engineering. Now you have developers working on say business logic or just solving, building a healthcare app. That's just awesome software. Do you agree with this craft? >> I absolutely agree, and actually what we say about Envoy, so kind of the catchword buzz phrase of Envoy is to make the network transparent to applications. And I think most of what's happening in infrastructure right now is to get back to a time where application developers can focus on business logic, and not have to worry about how some of this plumbing actually works. And what you see around the industry right now, is it is just too painful for people to operate some of these large systems. And I think we're heading in the right direction, all of the trends are there, but it's going to take a lot more time to actually make that happen. >> I remember when I was graduating college in the 80s, sound old but, not to date myself, but the jobs were for software engineering. I mean that is what they called it, and now we're back to this devops brought it, cloud, the systems kind of engineering, really at a large scale, because you got to think about these things. >> Yeah, and I think what's also kind of interesting is that companies have moved toward this devops culture, or expecting developers to operate their systems, to be on call for them and I think that's fantastic, but what we're not doing as an industry is we're not actually teaching and helping people how to do this. So like we have this expectation that people know how to be on-call and know how to make dashboards, and know how to do all this work, but they don't learn it in school, and actually we come into organizations where we may not help them learn these skills. >> Every company has different cultures, that complicates things. >> So I think we're also, as an industry, we are figuring out how to train people and how to help them actually do this in a way that makes sense. >> Well, fascinating conversation Matt. Congratulations on all your success. Obviously a big fan of Lyft, one of the board members gave a keynote, she's from Palo Alto, from Floodgate. Great investors, great fans of the company. Congratulations, great success story, and again open source, this is the new playbook, community scale contribution, innovation. TheCUBE's doing it's share here live in Austin, Texas, for KubeKon, for Kubernetes conference and CloudNativeCon. I'm John Furrrier, for Stu Miniman, we'll be back with more after this short break. (futuristic music)
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