37. Taming Kubernetes Complexity with Elliott Clarke

An episode of the Cloud Currents podcast, hosted by Merchants Media, titled "37. Taming Kubernetes Complexity with Elliott Clarke" was published on July 7, 2025 and runs 38 minutes.

July 7, 2025 ·38m · Cloud Currents

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Join host Matt Pacheco as he sits down with Elliott Clark, CEO of Batteries Included and former Facebook infrastructure engineer, for a discussion about why giving developers Kubernetes is like handing them "a spinning ball of razor blades." Elliot shares hard-won insights from seven years at Facebook on cloud cost optimization, why security is fundamentally a human problem, and his revolutionary bring-your-own-compute approach that's democratizing enterprise-level infrastructure for startups and growing companies.

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