Alastair Turner
Since 1995, Alastair has deployed, administered, programmed and supported all things database, from Access to Universe, settling on Postgres around 2002. After being hit by the Kubernetes wave around 2018, Alastair has learned more than he ever wanted to about validating yaml and helped his fellow database enthusiasts discover containers, immutability and how an operator may be a person or a piece of software.
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