Back in 2012, CERN announced one of its most important achievements; the discovery of the Higgs boson. This work led to the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. Ricardo Rocha, Lukas Heinrich and Clemens Lang of CERN redid the data analysis on top of Kubernetes this year, which Ricardo and Lukas demonstrated at a keynote at KubeCon EU. All three join Adam and Craig for a short physics lesson and a view into computing at the largest scale, for particles at the smallest.
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Chatter of the week

50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 by NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, and as reported by CBS News in real time
LEGO Saturn V - mid-completion
47th annual Seafair Milk Carton Derby

Adam’s pictures, including the Saturn V rocket



News of the week

IBM announced it has closed its acquisition of Red Hat
Hashicorp Consul 1.6
Benchmarking best practices for Istio by Megan O’Keefe, Mandar Jog and John Howard
IPv6 enhancement proposal for Kubernetes

Now passing tests!


Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine specialization
Weave Ignite
Cloud Native CI/CD with OpenShift Pipelines
k3v
Avoid time-of-measurement bias with Prometheus

Prometheus client tracer for Ruby



Links from the interview

CERN

LHC Computing Grid
ATLAS experiment
CMS experiment


Standard model of particle physics
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Dark Matter is a misnomer


Baryonic matter
Dark matter
History of computing at CERN
Where the web was born
Large Hadron Collider
Higgs boson

Discovery of the Higgs boson


Servicing the first web server - Tim Berners-Lee’s NeXT cube
CERN Program Library (FORTRAN)
KubeCon EU keynote: Reperforming a Nobel Prize Discovery on Kubernetes

Slides
YouTube video


CERN openlab partnership
ROOT Data Analysis Framework
Particle physics is embarassingly parallel

Kubeflow
Spark Operator on Kubernetes


Open Data Initiative

Find a Higgs boson in LHC public data


Clemens’ shirt
Our guests on Twitter:

Ricardo Rocha
Lukas Heinrich
Clemens Lange