Ground Zero: Open Source Conference North America 2015

On July 2, 2015, in a packed room at OSCON, we cut the ribbon on Kubernetes 1.0 . I was the first PM who didn't sign the founding doc, yet I got the privilege of wiring the detonator that became Google Kubernetes Engine (née "Container Engine"). The last decade of distributed computing unfolded from that single push to GitHub.

As an aside, we kept deploying WordPress all the time. I'll never understand why we thought that was the killer scenario. But we did. Actually, the first killer scenario was the scale-up for Pokémon GO.…