Marcus Noble

With KubeCon just 1 week away I thought it would be good to share some of my tips and suggestions on how to make the most of the week without burning out. I've been to a few KubeCon's now, both EU and US, and I’ve learned a lot about how to make the most of the week and what not to do in order to protect your health!

For months now (maybe years, who knows 🤷) I've had the following error sprinkled throughout my Kubelet logs across multiple of my worker nodes:

StopPodSandbox from runtime service failed: rpc error: code = Unknown desc = failed to destroy network for sandbox "055b221e44a28ce8d9120f771d5e1ef201f2457ce49c58999a0147104cca2708": failed to get network "cbr0" cached result: decoding version from network config: unexpected end of JSON input

As there has never been any associated impact with this that I could see I just ignored it... for a long time!

Well, fast forward to last Friday night where a sudden hyper-focus hit and I decided I wanted to know what was going on and how to stop it - here's how it went.

I've been giving talks at meetups and conferences for a few years now. I started off after the encouragement of my friends giving their own talk and looking so cool doing it! It's taken a while but I think I'm at a stage now where I'm not only good at it (at least I hope so 😅) but I feel confident and comfortable while doing it. I want everyone to have that same confidence and I want to hear ALL OF YOU giving talks too! You have stories to tell, lessons to share and experience to pass on. So here is my learnings on how I approach giving a talk in front of a crowd of techies, mainly focussed on technical talks but most of this should apply to most public speaking.

I run several bots that post to social media and the number seems to keep growing. I've had a few people in the past ask me how I run them so I thought I'd finally get around to writing down how I manage it by leveraging Node-RED.

I have a habit of automating as much of my life as I can. As part of that I have some small automations that handle posting to social media automatically when I publish a new blog post. (More on this in a future post). In the past this was Twitter but that is dead so these days I post to my Mastodon and Bluesky accounts automatically whenever a new blog post is available on my website. Maybe that's how you ended up here today! One platform I had been avoiding for a long time was LinkedIn. I had the impression that they didn't have a free, personal API available for users to use to post status updates. Well, turns out I was mistaken and it's actually not too difficult to setup, there's just a LOT of outdated information out there. So lets fix this...