The Alan Barr Show

Presentations - Some in person, Some recorded with presenter on hand in slack or the platform. Some given virtually. Wide spectrum of quality and content. Upstream Kubernetes Focus Downstream Kubernetes Focus Vendor related Individual experience related to Kubernetes or tangential topic API Clarity - Tooling to detect shadow and zombie APIs. Depends on Istio. How NOT to Start with Kubernetes - Chr...

Kubernetes, Platforms, Networking!

Make content generously. Act 1 - Local Act 2 - National Act 3 - Global

Act 1 - Alignment Act 2 - Product Thinking Act 3 - Agile is not enough

Practice and find opportunities to give talks Use pauses for effect Connect with your audience Tell stories Use your tone Be you and tell your stories Prepare for uncertainty and let hiccups wash past you Use words like imagine and call out names of people in the audience Every talk cannot be perfect if virtual ask for people to use reactions. If in public practice in the venue. Take the feedback...

Act 1 - Developing Self-awareness of your gifts Act 2 - Tools to Reflect on your and others strengths Act 3 - Leveraging your gifts

Act 1 - Communication is sales Act 2 - Mediums, methods, and repetition Act 3 - Writing is the ultimate vehicle for communication leverage Tool For Recording to Writing Otter Recording

Relationships are the key to your success. Nurture them and learn from others.

Act 1 - Preparing for Change, Unlearning, and Learning Act 2 - Training and Communicating the Change Little by Little Act 3 - Transform Yourself

A vision will make your journey easier. Deferring the creation of a vision is like saying. I want to make this as hard as possible. Visualizing the future. Feel it in your body and share it out. Help people see the journey and their part in it. Act 1 What's the point of a vision? Defining an outcome helps lead you to a more successful future. Act 2 How to craft a vision? Cameron Herold's Vivid Vis...

Kubernetes is the abstraction layer for infrastructure standardization . Act 1 - Advocating and starting the change for a new platform. People Process Technology Unlearning and learning. Communicate and engage leadership to advocate for your platform. Act 2 - Marketing, Education, Training Training is a great investment that communicates the value and gives everyone a baseline to understand. Peopl...

Todays Topic is Writing. Table of contents Act 1 - Writing is for communicating ideas to others that add value Writing as thinking FAST, CRIBS. David Perell and his articulate thoughts on writing. Act 2 - Writing for others Software Documentation four types of documentation . Writing in context. Act 3 - Writing to Persuade and Align Visions, Decision making, clarifying thoughts, taking a stand, co...

Act 1 - What is persuasion and why should we be persuasive? Act 2 - Low Stakes Persuasive Techniques Act 3 - Higher Stakes Persuasion Conclusion Add tone, mirroring, and labeling as part of your daily low-stakes practices.

In this episode, I explain the lessons I learned in making an internal developer platform built on Kubernetes.