We're joined today by Sally Lehman, a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience. She's worked at Oracle and managed over 10,000 nodes simultaneously. Today, we'll discuss Kubernetes, Prometheus, Thanos, and the future of observability. Sally shares her insights on what she likes about Kubernetes compared to YAML and Salt, its current state, and where it's headed in the future. We also talk about Prometheus, an open-source monitoring solution, and Thanos, a CNCF incubating project. Additionally, we compare the Ruby and Go communities with Python, discussing their approaches to development and community dynamics. Sally offers advice for newcomers to the DevOps space, emphasizing the importance of engaging with communities, learning from others, and finding one's niche. She also predicts that there will be more integrations between CNCF telemetry products in the next couple of years, making it easier to transition between them.