Podcast appearances and mentions of dave mcallister

In this episode, recorded live at DevWorld 2025 in Amsterdam, we sit down with Dave McAllister, Senior Open Source Technologist at NGINX, for a fast-paced, thought-provoking—and surprisingly funny—conversation about observability, statistics, and Kubernetes traffic management.Dave takes us on a journey through the real meaning behind metrics like mean, median, and mode, and explains why so many DevOps teams misread their alerts and dashboards. Using eye-opening anecdotes (yes, including one about beer sales and marriage licenses), he breaks down the danger of acting on misleading correlations and why using the wrong statistical model can lead to chaos.We also dive deep into the future of Ingress versus the Gateway API, the evolution of NGINX's role in Kubernetes environments, and what makes some tools “just good enough” while others aim for performance and reliability at scale.Expect insights on everything from Poisson distributions to eBPF, all wrapped in Dave's sharp storytelling style and decades of open source experience.Stuur ons een bericht.Support the showLike and subscribe! It helps out a lot.You can also find us on:De Nederlandse Kubernetes Podcast - YouTubeNederlandse Kubernetes Podcast (@k8spodcast.nl) | TikTokDe Nederlandse Kubernetes PodcastWhere can you meet us:EventsThis Podcast is powered by:ACC ICT - IT-Continuïteit voor Bedrijfskritische Applicaties | ACC ICT

In episode 40 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc and Benjie speak with open source pioneer Dave McAllister. Dave shares stories and lessons from his 40-year career in tech including working for DEC, NASA, Adobe, Red Hat, Splunk, and NGINX. Additionally, they discuss Linux's rise to popularity in the early days of open source, SGI's contribution to modern cinematic effects, predictions around AI, and the overlap of open source and LLMs.

In episode 40 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc and Benjie speak with open source pioneer Dave McAllister. Dave shares stories and lessons from his 40-year career in tech including working for DEC, NASA, Adobe, Red Hat, Splunk, and NGINX. Additionally, they discuss Linux's rise to popularity in the early days of open source, SGI's contribution to modern cinematic effects, predictions around AI, and the overlap of open source and LLMs.

Last month it was Pico Lopes and Robbie Horgan...this time Boccer Bayly, Dave McAllister and Hooperman are among over a dozen diallers into the TFTES Hotline with topics such as World Cup pundits, cooking, pre-season friendlies, bad refereeing decisions, iconic celebrations and how LOI managers would fare in a fight.

"A lot of the companies I've worked for were trying to transition from proprietary or very siloed products, very black box products to more standards based products. And that seems to be a common thread that I've gone through even in proprietary companies. Avaya also was trying to move away from a very, very monolithic black box voice messaging system that they had millions of dollars invested in called the Octel Voice Messaging system. "They wanted to go to more of a standards based system where, and also a more componentized system, if you will, with the voice server at the back, and then all the UI and the functions and the application server and the front.  "Especially in the embedded space, articulating the value of a company based distribution, say like a Wind River versus roll-your-own was really hard because if you looked at that market in those days 75 to 80% of customers wanted to roll their own. And so the 20% of the market was kind of split between all the commercial vendors. "It's been hard through the timeframe from then to now to really find good ways to monetize you know, over open source. And as you know, Red Hat's been one of the most successful companies in this area, but most companies have really struggled to monetize and, and sustain an open source based business. "The cloud is providing a better business model. Delivering the product as a service because the operationalization of an open source product is so difficult to do, and it saves you the time of installation, integration, support, testing. You can just start running the product from day one. I think that's been a pretty good business model. What is really, really interesting to me is how open source community becomes an extended engineering team for you. And that you can then focus on your core competency while leveraging the extended team for common components that all of us use." -- Nithya Ruff Resources from this Episode Beau Vrolek: https://www.hpcwire.com/1999/11/16/sgi-in-the-new-millennium-an-interview-with-beau-vrolyk/ (https://www.hpcwire.com/1999/11/16/sgi-in-the-new-millennium-an-interview-with-beau-vrolyk/) Dave McAllister: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davemc/details/experience/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/davemc/details/experience/) Silicon Graphics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics) IRIX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX) Wyatt Starnes - Tripwire: https://www.cerias.purdue.edu/site/blog/post/in_memorium_wyatt_starnes/ (https://www.cerias.purdue.edu/site/blog/post/in_memorium_wyatt_starnes/) Wind River: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_River_Systems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_River_Systems) Sumit Sadana: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumitsadana/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumitsadana/) Gene Kim: https://www.linkedin.com/in/realgenekim/

How can startups better partner with government and military agencies such as St. Louis' National Geospatial Intelligence Agency? Learn first hand from an entrepreneur and consultant duo specializing in machine learning & artificial intelligence about how we can work to cultivate critical personal and professional relationships in our innovation community. Special Guests: Syeed "Sid" Mansur is the CEO of Sentrana Inc., a leading innovator in collaborative AI/Machine Learning Operations technology. He is the architect of Sentrana's technology platform, DeepCortex, and engages closely with its users to maximize alignment of technology with mission needs. Sid's background is in Applied Mathematics and Geospatial Analytics, and he previously served NGA as a geospatial systems architect. Dave McAllister is an Artificial Intelligence & Mission Analytics leader at Deloitte Consulting. He previously managed an innovative software program at the Defense Department's Strategic Capabilities Office and was an Intelligence Officer in the Navy for over 29 years. This month's event will coincide with STL STARTUP WEEK, celebrating the St. Louis region's entrepreneurs and startup community. -- LINKS -- Deloitte | Government & Public Services: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/indus... Sentrana: https://sentrana.com T-REX: http://www.downtowntrex.org The Geospatial Innovation Center @ T-REX: http://www.downtowntrex.org/geospatial/ STL Startup Week: https://www.stlouisstartupweek.com Location: St. Louis, MO *This event was produced with the tools our team members had available in their homes amid the COVID-19 pandemic.*

Listen to a conversation with Dave McAllister, director of services and project management for Girbau North America, about essential laundry equipment tasks to keep your machines processing goods—and doing it well.

Bethany McAllister of 913 BBQ joins Dane Neal to talk about excitement around the BBQ FITE Klub coming up and the amazing group of teams assembled to cool, entertain and raise awareness for great causes. Hear her story of being a just fan of BBQ, helping friends at a competition and then taking her own […]

Bethany McAllister of 913 BBQ joins Dane Neal to talk about excitement around the BBQ FITE Klub coming up and the amazing group of teams assembled to cool, entertain and raise awareness for great causes. Hear her story of being a just fan of BBQ, helping friends at a competition and then taking her own […]

This episode of Adventures in Devops features Dave McAllister. Dave has an extensive background in open source starting in 1994 working with early versions of Linux. He thrives on the concepts of emerging technologies and being able to innovate things. He also loves understanding what people are doing with emerging technology.  The discussion opens up by introducing the topic of multi-dimensional monitoring in RED. Dave gives us an introduction into RED as a subset of google’s SRE Golden signals. RED stands for rate, errors, and durations and is a concept that is designed for working with micro services. The DevOps panelists discuss concepts such as saturation and how to ensure correct results from their micro services using the RED concepts as well as some best practices for managing micro services.   Nell asks about the scope of RED and whether it works with the big picture of what the micro service is doing. Dave shares that the scope of RED pertains to both. RED helps with observability and how to get the right signals out of all the noise and how to respond once the correct signals are found. He shares that RED should be a set of metrics in a dashboard that can be aggregated. He explains that RED gives the user a way of grouping data together and helping them to normalize functionality and find trends.  The next topic covered by the DevOps experts is how to map the metrics seen in RED to the user experience. Dave explains how RED monitors the users activity and can put together metrics based on what they’re doing. Using RED to follow user metrics will help to identify trends in where users will have issues and identify problem areas. Using micro services with RED introduces a level of granularity that can be monitored to help improve the performance of the application and improve scaling. RED helps with these improvements most notably by improving reaction time once a problem is found to help correct it as soon as possible. The panelists discuss some real world examples and how real world activities and human tendencies can alter patterns seen in the monitoring. Dave points out that one of the strongest recommendations he can make about RED is its ability to start simple and scale upwards as needed.  The panelists then go on to discuss the human aspect of RED, how a team would react to changing, and how RED really requires a true DevOps team to reach its full potential. The panelists then share experiences they faced earlier in their careers as developers and how RED could have helped them. Nell brings up the idea of service meshes and how RED applies to them. Dave starts by introducing some problems in micro services and service meshes and the opportunity that exists for RED to come in and help solve those problems. He explains how service meshes in micro services give you duration that you don’t have to implement. They finish with covering the usage of Kubernetes operators.   Panelists Nell Shamrell-Harrington   Guest Dave McAllister  Sponsors Elixir Mix Adventures in Angular iPhreaks   Links RED Google’s Golden Signals  Kubernetes Operators Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington Fire Emblem: Three Houses Dave McAllister Membership card to Fulham football club

This episode of Adventures in Devops features Dave McAllister. Dave has an extensive background in open source starting in 1994 working with early versions of Linux. He thrives on the concepts of emerging technologies and being able to innovate things. He also loves understanding what people are doing with emerging technology.  The discussion opens up by introducing the topic of multi-dimensional monitoring in RED. Dave gives us an introduction into RED as a subset of google’s SRE Golden signals. RED stands for rate, errors, and durations and is a concept that is designed for working with micro services. The DevOps panelists discuss concepts such as saturation and how to ensure correct results from their micro services using the RED concepts as well as some best practices for managing micro services.   Nell asks about the scope of RED and whether it works with the big picture of what the micro service is doing. Dave shares that the scope of RED pertains to both. RED helps with observability and how to get the right signals out of all the noise and how to respond once the correct signals are found. He shares that RED should be a set of metrics in a dashboard that can be aggregated. He explains that RED gives the user a way of grouping data together and helping them to normalize functionality and find trends.  The next topic covered by the DevOps experts is how to map the metrics seen in RED to the user experience. Dave explains how RED monitors the users activity and can put together metrics based on what they’re doing. Using RED to follow user metrics will help to identify trends in where users will have issues and identify problem areas. Using micro services with RED introduces a level of granularity that can be monitored to help improve the performance of the application and improve scaling. RED helps with these improvements most notably by improving reaction time once a problem is found to help correct it as soon as possible. The panelists discuss some real world examples and how real world activities and human tendencies can alter patterns seen in the monitoring. Dave points out that one of the strongest recommendations he can make about RED is its ability to start simple and scale upwards as needed.  The panelists then go on to discuss the human aspect of RED, how a team would react to changing, and how RED really requires a true DevOps team to reach its full potential. The panelists then share experiences they faced earlier in their careers as developers and how RED could have helped them. Nell brings up the idea of service meshes and how RED applies to them. Dave starts by introducing some problems in micro services and service meshes and the opportunity that exists for RED to come in and help solve those problems. He explains how service meshes in micro services give you duration that you don’t have to implement. They finish with covering the usage of Kubernetes operators.   Panelists Nell Shamrell-Harrington   Guest Dave McAllister  Sponsors Elixir Mix Adventures in Angular iPhreaks   Links RED Google’s Golden Signals  Kubernetes Operators Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington Fire Emblem: Three Houses Dave McAllister Membership card to Fulham football club

We discuss the Waterford win and the Sligo trip, there's the Member's Corner with Paddy Flannelly, some more 'Grinds My Gears' and Dave McAllister takes on Joey O'Brien in the final of Questions From The East Stand.

We review the late win in Inchicore and preview our last home game of the season. There's the Member's Corner with Justin Mason, and Dave McAllister v Alan Mannus in the other Questions From The East Stand semi-final.

There's the Carl Paul Turner anthem, Derry and 5-a-side tournament reviews, Nick Clarke interview and Lee Grace v Dan Carr and Dave McAllister v Luke Byrne in the QFTES quarter-finals

The first episode of London Scots with Musician and Engineer Dave McAllister.

We're back to talk the Limerick game, the European draw, Stockholm plans, the World Cup, VAR, plus it's Ethan Boyle v Dan Carr and Greg Bolger v Dave McAllister in QFTES.

Dave McAllister drops into Johnny Blues Bar for a chat about his Wheel of Fortune, his love of a row, the hard men at his former clubs and being signed by Sheffield United instead of Gary Twigg. We discuss Trevor Clarke's injury, a hideous Sligo game, flags, the George Byrne Memorial Quiz, his Ultras friends and Oriel Park, with a brilliant story about taking Dundalk's side of the tunnel last season. There's an interview with Paddy Daly and after we hear four qualifying quiz matches - Sam Bone v Dan Carr, Sean Kavanagh v Dean Dillon, Ethan Boyle v Ally Gilchrist and Greg Bolger v Joel Coustrain - Davey makes the draw for the last 16 of the Questions From The East Stand Cup.

"The days and months on the road had unspooled before us and we'd simply followed the thread. But the bobbin was empty now," writes Dave McAllister. "Fine Jade would be the last cumulative "now" we shared, the final adventure we'd have as a group. At least on this trip. Maybe ever."  Last spring, Dave and his band of dirtbag travelers celebrated their last moments together and helped their friends get hitched in style--atop a desert tower. Today, we bring you a story of gumby ingenuity, spring in the desert, feather boas and a little tale of 'dirtbag theology' in motion.    You can find more of Dave's writing at: Thundercling.com