How etcd Solved Its Knowledge Drain With Deterministic Testing

The loss of institutional knowledge when people leave an organization can be tough. When longtime maintainers leave an open source project, it can be nearly impossible to recapture that knowledge.

That’s what happened to etcd, an open source, distributed key value store that’s “older than Kubernetes itself,” said etcd’s lead maintainer, Marek Siarkowicz, in this episode of The New Stack Makers.

Siarkowicz, a senior software engineer at Google, joined me for this On the Road…