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What is this?

This is a sample project by Mark Drake. It's a Node.js app that serves a randomly selected video (sourced from a YouTube playlist) every day, and it runs on a GKE Autopilot cluster.

GKE? Isn't that kind of overpowered for this?

It is! In my work as a technical writer, I write a lot about Kubernetes, but don't have a lot of direct experience working with it. This project began as a hands-on experiment to help me better understand how container orchestration works in practice.

Who is Robbie Dupree?

Robbie Dupree is an American singer-songwriter considered to be one of the quintessential performers of the "yacht rock" genre. He had two top 20 hits in 1980 ("Steal Away" and "Hot Rod Hearts"), but his greatest work is without a doubt his music video for Girls in Cars:

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