Taylor Brown

Group Program Manager for container platform and Windows runtime at Microsoft.

[Vinícius Apolinário 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @vrapolinario]

Announcing the Windows Server Annual Channel for Containers https://t.co/6WRCDvP0TF

Happy to answer your question on this announcement! #WindowsContainers #Docker #Kubernetes #K8s #AzOps

[Taylor Brown @Taylorb_msft]

@elonmusk And I’ll now be moving fully off this platform untill it’s not run by @elonmusk. You have broken many promises and proven incompetent as a leader. Hopefully twitter survives without you.

[Taylor Brown @Taylorb_msft]

I'll post links to the other positions as the hiring managers get them posted and when we get the next batch.

[Taylor Brown @Taylorb_msft]

We are hiring for Windows containers! I have a PM position on my team, a PM position working on Windows container networking and multiple engineering positions with more expected soon :).

Here is the link to the PM position on my team:
https://t.co/z8sERScUjd

[Taylor Brown @Taylorb_msft]

I am not fully migrating (yet) but intend to dual post and may fully migrate in the future. #Mastodon here https://t.co/McqZeTBk05 #TwitterMigration

[Taylor Brown @Taylorb_msft]

This is a great talk on Windows containers. Thank you Julian and @RelativityHQ! https://t.co/lQcHmS7fgs

[Taylor Brown @Taylorb_msft]

If you are interested in helping shape how windows container images are distributed (foreign layers etc...) please continue to this discussion https://t.co/yE7GV26ED2

[Taylor Brown @Taylorb_msft]

@awakecoding @justincormack We’re continuing to invest a lot in containerd (more coming) I think a lot could be built on that layer. But the highest roi has been k8. There are so many apps to modernize to cloud/hybrid.

[Taylor Brown @Taylorb_msft]

@awakecoding @justincormack Don’t rule it out - but it’s a lot harder than it first appears.

[Taylor Brown @Taylorb_msft]

@awakecoding @justincormack We did a small hack of a windows kvm vm on Linux, but there are a lot of issues. K8 doesn’t know about nesting, how does aqua or other security tools work? What about networking? It got super complicated.

[Taylor Brown @Taylorb_msft]

@awakecoding @justincormack So far we’ve felt that doubling down on making windows containers awesome in the ecosystem is the win. So we’re moving even more engineering people onto windows containers. And we’ll keep listening and working on licensing changes that make since.

[Taylor Brown @Taylorb_msft]

@awakecoding @justincormack The former has perf/density/observability/ecosystem issues, the latter has major compatibility issues plus ecosystem challenges. Certainly not out of the realm of possibility long term but it’s not clear what the real customer benefits are ultimately.

[Taylor Brown @Taylorb_msft]

We are getting ready to move… our current house has asymmetrical 1gb fiber but the new house is in an older neighborhood on cable 😢. New house is overall a major improvement except internet. How real is docsis 4? I fear fiber is a ways away there.

[Taylor Brown @Taylorb_msft]

@awakecoding @justincormack Another one that feels easy until you start prototyping and thinking through all the details.

[Taylor Brown @Taylorb_msft]

@awakecoding @justincormack Yes. But it’s not simple. And it’s not a small investment. How does networking work? How about pv’s? Or side cars? Licensing is also an obvious consideration, but that’s actually easier to workout than the experience questions.

[Taylor Brown @Taylorb_msft]

@justincormack And by us I mean the larger community. OCI + CNCF etc. from a Microsoft perspective we simply want more customers to benefit from windows containers.

[Taylor Brown @Taylorb_msft]

@justincormack I thought it was a slam dunk to remove them as well… but as we started to make that change we got feedback about their value. Specifically around pushing from devs and ci/cd that wasn’t insignificant. Ultimately customers need to help us decide.