Ahmet Alp Balkan
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  • Coolest features of Google Container Builder

    04 April 2017

    Google Cloud Container Builder was announced last month and I have been using it ever since. It has a few features that I really love that have gone unhighlighted. I wrote a testimony on Hacker News when it came out, so I am going to elaborate on that here. Read more →

  • Favorite talks from Google Cloud Next ’17

    29 March 2017

    This year Google Cloud Next 2017 was a constant source of amusement for me. I just wanted to reflect on several talks I watched that you might find interesting if you are into DevOps and SRE topics. Read more →

  • I am a Googler now!

    07 March 2017

    I am very happy to announce that I have joined Google a month ago. I am working on the Kubernetes open source project in the Google Cloud Platform Developer Relations team. Read more →

  • Leaving Microsoft

    21 January 2017

    Last month, I have decided to seek opportunities outside Microsoft after 4 years and left my job at the Azure Linux team. It was my first job after college. Read more →

  • Exciting news from go-linq!

    20 January 2017

    I have some exciting news about go-linq, my first Go project ever: We have two new and excited maintainers. Read more →

  • Docker Logs API Format Explained

    04 January 2017

    I recently wrote a log collector that uses Docker’s Container Logs API to subscribe output streams of containers. Most people don’t collect logs from containers this way, because they can use well known logging drivers that Docker supports, so it’s hard to find programs out there consuming this logs API. Read more →

  • Azure Container Registry is here!

    08 December 2016

    Last month, Azure Container Registry has gone to public preview. Finally you can start uploading your container images to Azure! This fills an important gap in the containerized application lifecycle in the Azure ecosystem. It is also the first production service I participated in building and delivering at Microsoft. Read more →

  • Testing Go HTTP logic with go-httpbin

    29 November 2016

    If you ever found yourself writing a piece of code doing a HTTP POST request and then trying to test it with a real HTTP server, you might have heard of httpbin.org. Read more →

  • govvv – Versioning for Go binaries

    10 August 2016

    Go language is getting increasingly popular when it comes to writing microservices and commmand-line tools. It easily lets you compile a complicated application into a single binary, it can cross-compile from any OS to any other OS the Go compiler supports. Read more →

  • State of Cloud Instance Provisioning

    27 July 2016

    I have been craving to write about this since this is what I have been up to lately at work. I spent quite some time investigating the state of instance provisioning on each cloud provider and I thought I could share these here. Read more →

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About the Author

I'm a software engineer at LinkedIn's Kubernetes-based compute infrastructure team. I enjoy building tools to orchestrate large-scale compute server fleets and love digging deep on Kubernetes and containers space. In my spare time, I maintain several tools in the Kubernetes open source ecosystem.

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