Today I went to the 411th consecutive ABCD main meeting to hear David Malan and Kareem Zidane talk about CS50‘s use of Kubernetes. The talk was fantastic and the slides are already available. It looks like a previous similar talk is on YouTube.

As luck would have it, I crossed paths with David on the way to the venue so we got a chance to chat a bit. I took CS75 in 2009 with him in person and really enjoyed it. It was taught in PHP and my final project is still on GitHub. Fast forward to late 2019, about a month ago, and I reminded him who I am and explained an Open Source at Harvard dataset I've been curating for a few years. Within a week he had created a site based on that data. It sounds like Kareem played an important role so I was glad to meet him and plan to pick his brain about all this soon.

The most incredible stat from the talk is that over a million people have registered for CS50. It was also really interesting to hear how the technology to support the course has changed since 1987. The funny thing is that I still use the ice/nice system from back then. Works great.