TomTom Engineering Podcast - The Magic Behind The Map

Site Reliability Engineering with Rick Rackow

November 22, 2022 TomTom International BV Season 1 Episode 1
Site Reliability Engineering with Rick Rackow
TomTom Engineering Podcast - The Magic Behind The Map
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TomTom Engineering Podcast - The Magic Behind The Map
Site Reliability Engineering with Rick Rackow
Nov 22, 2022 Season 1 Episode 1
TomTom International BV

In this episode we have a chat with  Rick Rackow who is an Expert Site Reliability Engineer at TomTom.

We start by learning how Rick originally started his career as a car mechanic and how he got interested in software engineering and site reliability engineering . During the interview we discuss Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, Kubernetes and OpenShift. We also discuss the benefits of treating infrastructure as code and what advantages and caveats immutable infrastructures have. Finally, we ask Rick about his upcoming book titled "Operating OpenShift, an SRE approach to managing infrastructure", to be published by O'Reilly.

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In this episode we have a chat with  Rick Rackow who is an Expert Site Reliability Engineer at TomTom.

We start by learning how Rick originally started his career as a car mechanic and how he got interested in software engineering and site reliability engineering . During the interview we discuss Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, Kubernetes and OpenShift. We also discuss the benefits of treating infrastructure as code and what advantages and caveats immutable infrastructures have. Finally, we ask Rick about his upcoming book titled "Operating OpenShift, an SRE approach to managing infrastructure", to be published by O'Reilly.

Resources mentioned in the podcast:

Interested in a career at TomTom? Check out Careers @TomTom

Introducing Rick Rackow
How did you get interested in SRE?
How did the use of Kubernetes evolve in companies?
What is SRE really about?
How does OpenShift relate to Kubernetes?
Can you expand on Infrastructure as Code?
Can you explain what Configuration Drift is?
Can you tell us about your new book?
Do you have any advice for our listeners?