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Matt Butcher is a principal engineer at Microsoft, where he leads the open source Kubernetes Helm project. Matt has published 8 technical books, as well as the Illustrated Children's Guide to Kubernetes. He has contributed to hundreds of open source projects. Matt holds a PhD in philosophy, and teaches in the computer science department at Loyola University Chicago. When not sitting in front of a glowing rectangle, Matt enjoys hiking near his Colorado home.

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Announcing Brigade 1.0: Build a new kind of distributed application 

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Brendan Burns, one of the creators of Kubernetes (and the head of Azure Container Computing at Microsoft) often quips that, “Distributed computing is the new CS 101.” Instead of being considered an advanced topic in computer science, distributed computing is now a core requirement. It is with this in mind that we built Brigade, which Read more

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Introducing CNAB: a cloud-agnostic format for packaging and running distributed applications 

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“The day of the distributed app is near.” That is the mantra we’ve been repeating for years. But with robust cloud offerings, the microservice pattern, orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, and the REST-ification of everything, we’re already there. It is the day of the distributed application. Almost. We’ve gotten the “distributed” thing down, but in doing Read more

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5 reasons you should be doing container native development 

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Docker and Kubernetes are no longer the bleeding edge of technology; they’re the clear platform choice of today and tomorrow. Frequently, though, we developers are writing our applications the way we always have. We do all the coding on our host system (as we‘ve always done), and then we look at containers as a deployment Read more