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# Interview with Kelsey Hightower, Developer and Advocate at CoreOS

[Kaisa Kuusik](https://blog.container-solutions.com/author/kaisa-kuusik)

 April 8, 2015

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In the third part of our ‘Tech Interview’ series Container Solution’s [Mark Coleman](https://twitter.com/mrmrcoleman) talks to [Kelsey Hightower](https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower), Developer and Advocate at [CoreOS](https://coreos.com/). You can see the previous interview [here](http://container-solutions.com/2015/03/interview-with-andrew-phillips-xebialabs/).

 

In this interview Kelsey and Mark discuss Kelsey’s work at CoreOS and previously at PuppetLabs, the CoreOS ecosystem and its interoperability, Rocket and the container specification, why all developers need to be developer advocates, and why distributed systems are hard and why not everybody needs microservices.

 

 

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