Famous Hackers
This deceased hacker was charged with causing $80M in damages to Sun Microsystems by viewing its SunOS source code, despite the company allowing students access to the code for just $100.
Who was Kevin Mitnick?
This is objectively the worst programming language in use today.
What is javascript?
This control plane component is responsible for creating cloud infrastructure.
What is Cloud Controller Manager?
This fictional hacker from the 90s cult classic Hackers was arrested in an FBI raid as a child after infecting 1,507 computer with a virus.
Who is Crash Override?
What is Singleton?
This Kubernetes resource is useful for identifying services that exist outside the cluster.
What are ExternalName Services?
This hacker is best known for creating and continuing to organize the world's largest hacker conference.
Who is Dark Tangent?
Developed at NeXT, Inc., this language was originally a C++ preprocessor and is still used in common Apple libraries today.
What is Objective-C?
This object-encoding scheme is used on-the-wire by the Kubernetes API server.
What is JSON? (Bonus: What are protocol buffers?)
This hacker was the co-creator of RSS before being sentenced to prison on under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for performing a mass download of PDFs from JSTOR from an MIT wiring closet.
Who was Aaron Swartz?
This Java type is used to pause one thread while it waits for additional threads to complete their work.
What is CountdownLatch?
This largely immutable resource serves as an intermediate step between Deployments and the Pods they manage.
What are ReplicaSets?
This famed hacker discovered that a free whistle from a cereal box generated the same frequency used by pay phones to open a long-distance connection, allowing free phone calls. The exact frequency later became the name of a popular hacker magazine.
Who is Captain Crunch?
This accomplished mathematician was the creator of the compiler and is credited for the creation of the term "debugging."
Who is Grace Hopper?
This internal Google project was the precursor to Kubernetes.
What is Borg?