In this episode I talk with Verónica López. We talk her background, exposure to Go and Elixir, working with CoreOS and Kubernetes, being a bridge between Kubernetes and the BEAM communities, and more.Our Guest, Verónica López@maria_fibonacci on TwitterConference AnnouncementsInternational Conference on Functional Programming 2018 will be taking place September 23 – 29th in St. Louis, MO. For more information, and to register visit: https://icfp18.sigplan.org/StrangeLoop 2018 will be taking place September 27th and 28th, with a pre-conference day on the 26th in St. Louis, MO. To keep updated as details become announced you can find out more at: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/(eighth RacketCon) will take place September 27th and 28th in St. Louis, Missouri, along side ICFP and Strange Loop. For more information, and to register visit https://con.racket-lang.org/.The Big Elixir Conference will be on November 8th and 9th in New Orleans. Visit https://www.thebigelixir.com for more information and to register.Code Mesh LDN will be taking place on November 8th and 9th in London. Visit https://codesync.global/conferences/code-mesh-2018/ for more information and to register.Lambda Days 2019 will be taking place February 21st and 22nc in Kraków, Poland. For more information and to register visit http://www.lambdadays.org/.If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.AnnouncementsSome of you have asked how you can support Functional Geekery, in that vein,Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page.If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you canfind out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery.Topics [@About VerónicaRed HatCoreOSGoJavaElixirPythonBackground as a physicistTranslating software from Fortran to PythonWorking on Android applicationsBuilding back-end services and doing UI design as a mobile developerMoving into more back-end developmentTransition to Go and ElixirGetting creative on limited infrastructureElixirConf 2017 – My Journey from Go to ElixirWhy originally picking Go over Elixir for concurrencyNorberto OrtigozaFurther exposure to ElixirTranslating Elixir and BEAM concepts to GoPhoenix FrameworkKubernetesLearning how to fail betterCoreOSetcdOpenShiftComparing Elixir and the BEAM to KubernetesLearning from other languages and toolkits approaches to distributed systemsOperator SDKOperators in KubernetesBeing able to use Elixir in an organization as a luxury currentlyBeing a bridge between Kubernetes and ElixirLanguages live or die by promotionImportance of having people to learn fromAs always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.