About Mike Warren Mike Warren is cofounder and CTO of Descartes Labs. Mike’s past work spans a wide range of disciplines, with the recurring theme of developing and applying advanced software and computing technology to understand the physical and virtual world. He was a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25 years, and also worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Sandpiper Networks/Digital Island. His work has been recognized on multiple occasions, including the Gordon Bell prize fo...
Aug 14, 2019•31 min•Ep. 73
About Chris Vickery Chris Vickery is Director of Cyber Risk Research at UpGuard. His research has protected over two and a half billion private consumer and account records which would have otherwise remained at risk of malicious exploitation. He has been cited as a cyber security expert by The New York Times, Forbes, Reuters, BBC, LA Times, Washington Post, and many other publications. Some examples of his high profile data discoveries involve entities such as Verizon, Facebook, Viacom, Donald ...
Aug 07, 2019•34 min•Ep. 72
About Tara Walker Tara is a Principal Software Engineer on the Azure IoT product group primarily focused making services for IoT and Intelligent Edge great on Azure. While she now primarily focuses on IoT, Tara has additional expertise and interests in Serverless, Artificial Intelligence (AI) cloud services, and Mobile Development solutions. Over her 20-year career, she has been employed by Amazon Web Services, Turner Broadcasting/Time Warner, Georgia Pacific, and various other Fortune 500 compa...
Jul 31, 2019•23 min•Ep. 71
About Ken Collins Ken Collins is a Staff Engineer at Custom Ink focusing on DevOps and eCommerce architecture with an emphasis on emerging opportunities. Custom Ink is approaching its 20th year in business and is entering its second phase in Cloud adoption where Ken helps an increasing growing engineering team succeed using AWS-first well-architected patterns. Ken lives near Norfolk, VA and organizes the area’s Ruby User Group. Links Referenced: Twitter: @metaskills Custom Ink...
Jul 24, 2019•30 min•Ep. 70
Dr. Galen Hunt founded and leads the Microsoft team responsible for Azure Sphere. The mission of his team is to ensure that every IoT device on the planet is secure and trustworthy. Previously, Dr. Hunt lead the Operating Systems Group at Microsoft Research and pioneered technologies ranging from confidential cloud computing to light-weight container virtualization, type-safe operating systems, and video streaming. Dr. Hunt was a member of Microsoft's founding cloud computing team and helped bui...
Jul 17, 2019•28 min•Ep. 69
About Christina Warren Christina Warren is a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, where she helps shape the overall strategy for Developer Relations in Azure. As an advocate, she hosts shows on Channel 9, Microsoft’s video channel for developer content, speaks and creates content at events, conducts on-camera technical interviews within the developer community, and liaisons with product teams across the company. Prior to joining Microsoft, Christina spent a decade in digital media as an editor, s...
Jul 10, 2019•45 min•Ep. 68
About Mitchell Hashimoto Mitchell Hashimoto is Founder and CTO of HashiCorp. He is the creator of Vagrant, Packer, Serf, Consul, Terraform, Vault and Nomad - a set of open source tools that each individually are downloaded and used millions of times per year. At one point Mitchell was in the top 5 most active users on GitHub. At HashiCorp, Mitchell is helping define a remote-first culture with over 500 employees spanning dozens of countries. He loves open source, automation, and working from hom...
Jul 03, 2019•40 min•Ep. 67
About Sean O'Dell Sean is a troublemaker living on the bleeding edge of technology and innovation. As a member of the VMware Cloud Services - Solution and Technology team, Sean is responsible for Evangelism, Developer Relations and assists in many GTM functions. Sean joined VCS in February of 2017 and helped shape and launch the set of SaaS solutions at VMworld 2017. Prior roles include Global Technical Lead for Network Insight (vRNI), Sales Engineer Leader for Arkin, VMware Cloud Management SE ...
Jun 27, 2019•38 min•Ep. 66
About Corey Sanders Corey Sanders has 15 years of experience at Microsoft with 13 years of managerial experience. In the last 9 years, Corey has been in the Azure team building the Azure Compute service, and he recently moved into a new role as Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Solutions. Links Referenced Twitter: @CoreySandersWA Microsoft Azure...
Jun 19, 2019•32 min•Ep. 65
About Austen Collins Austen is an entrepreneur and software engineer located in Oakland, CA. He is also the founder and CEO of Serverless, Inc. and the creator of the Serverless Framework , an open source project and module ecosystem to help everyone build applications exclusively on Lambda, without the hassle and costs required by servers. He describes himself as a product-obsessed, software engineer who is focused on making meaning, business value and great customer experiences. Links Referenc...
Jun 12, 2019•40 min•Ep. 64
About Emily Freeman Emily Freeman grew up in the “swamp” as Trump lovingly refers to it. With politics in her blood, she chased after her dream of living out an episode of the West Wing. After four years of arguing — pretty much sums up a PoliSci degree — she left school disappointed that campaigns are more about recruiting 20-year-olds to live in poverty than it is to wine and dine Koch brothers. Her dreams of Aaron Sorkin-level dialogue and Michelin-star dinners dashed, Emily took up ghostwrit...
Jun 05, 2019•37 min•Ep. 63
About Anna Spysz Anna Spysz is a writer turned software engineer at Stackery in Portland. When not software engineering, she likes to travel, play music, and kung fu fight for fun and profit. Links Referenced: https://www.stackery.io https://medium.com/@annaspies
May 29, 2019•33 min•Ep. 62
About Scott Guthrie As executive vice president of the Microsoft Cloud + AI Group, Scott Guthrie is responsible for the company’s computing fabric (cloud and edge, including cloud infrastructure, server, database, CRM, ERP, management) and Artificial Intelligence platform (infrastructure, runtimes, frameworks, tools and higher-level services around perception, knowledge and cognition). Prior to leading the Cloud + AI Group, Guthrie helped lead Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s public cloud platform. ...
May 22, 2019•28 min•Ep. 61
About Omer Levi Hevroni Omer has been coding since 4th grade when his dad taught him BASIC, and he got hooked. From that point, he learned to code in many programming languages (today his favorite is C#). Today he’s working at Soluto by Asurion , and coding is a huge part of his day job. His passion for AppSec started by accident when he was offered the role of security champion. The AppSec journey was (and still is) fascinated, and taught him a lot. OWASP helped him a lot during this journey; T...
May 15, 2019•29 min•Ep. 60
About Valentino Volonghi Valentino currently designs and implements AdRoll's globally distributed architecture. He is the President and Founder of the Italian Python Association that runs PyCon Italy. Since 2000, Valentino has specialized in distributed systems and actively worked with several Open Source projects. In his free time, he shows off his biking skills on his Cervelo S2 on 50+ mile rides around the Bay. Links Referenced: https://twitter.com/dialtone_ Adroll.com Tech.adroll.com...
May 08, 2019•36 min•Ep. 59
About Richard Boyd Richard is a Cloud Data Engineer with the iRobot Corporation’s Cloud Data Platform where he builds tools and services to support the world’s most beloved vacuum cleaner. Before joining iRobot, Richard built discrete event simulators for Amazon’s automated fulfillment centers in Amazon Robotics, ensured your Alexa device had all the skills you could ever want on Amazon’s Alexa team, held test engineering lead roles at BAE, cyber warfare systems analyst roles at MIT, and researc...
May 01, 2019•33 min•Ep. 58
About Richard Hartmann Richard "RichiH" Hartmann is the Swiss Army Chainsaw at SpaceNet, leading both a greenfield datacenter build and monitoring. By night, he is involved in several FLOSS projects, a Prometheus team member, founder of OpenMetrics, and organizing various related conferences, including but not limited FOSDEM, DENOG, and Chaos Communication Congress. Links Referenced: https://velocityconf.com/cloud https://prometheus.io https://www.debian.org https://promcon.io https://fosdem.org...
Apr 24, 2019•29 min•Ep. 57
About Jess Frazelle Jessie Frazelle is a computer programmer who has worked at GitHub , Microsoft , Google , Docker and various companies, startups, even design agencies before that. She’s worked on a lot of the open source projects in the container ecosystem, she’s a top abuser of the GitHub api, and runs her own cloud from her apartment and a colo in NYC called jess cloud. Links Referenced: twitter.com/jessfraz github.com microsoft.com google.com docker.com contained.af cncf.io summerofcode.wi...
Apr 17, 2019•36 min•Ep. 56
About Maureen Lonergan Maureen Lonergan joined Amazon Web Services in March of 2012 as Director of Training and Certification. Since then, Maureen has worked to build a set of programs and offerings that offer a flexible path for learners to advance their careers and for organizations to enable their teams and get more out of the cloud. Her team is responsible for building, maintaining, and delivering both classroom and digital training courses alongside an AWS Certification program to validate ...
Apr 10, 2019•29 min•Ep. 55
Some of the highlights of the show include: The benefits of RoboMaker in code deployment How cloud computation frees up local resources Using machine learning to improve robot reaction How great a name RoboMaker is Amazon’s commitment to the enduring API Links: https://aws.amazon.com/robomaker/ http://www.ros.org https://aws.amazon.com/deepracer/...
Apr 03, 2019•32 min•Ep. 54
Some of the highlights of the show include: Implications for migrating to AWS Why and how for using Amazon vs hardware The positive effects of mentoring for both the mentor and mentee Technical vs Management tracks at a software company Career advice for women in the tech field Links: https://www.digitalocean.com/ https://sendgrid.com/ DO.co/screaming http://blog.dbsmasher.com/ https://github.com/...
Mar 27, 2019•37 min•Ep. 53
The job market in the AWS world is complex and often confusing to both employers and employees. Wouldn’t it be great to have over 43,000 data points to draw a larger picture of the market and where you fall in line? Today, we are talking to Kate Powers who walks us through the AWS Salary Survey from Jefferson Frank and discusses some interesting insights as well as real world examples of the findings. Some of the highlights of the show include: The AWS job market at large Training Certificates: ...
Mar 20, 2019•41 min•Ep. 52
Years ago, if you wanted to launch an Internet company or Web application, you had to own necessary hardware. Now, the economics have changed drastically with the ease of Cloud computing. It’s still a new industry that people are trying to figure out, especially when it comes to cost and optimization. Today, we’re talking to Dann Berg, a Cloud ops analyst at Datadog. He helps others understand and lower the cost of Cloud operations. Dann is a detective who is dedicated to figuring out why a comp...
Mar 06, 2019•43 min•Ep. 51
If you use MongoDB, then you may be feeling ecstatic right now. Why? Amazon Web Services (AWS) just released DocumentDB with MongoDB compatibility. Users who switch from MongoDB to DocumentDB can expect improved speed, scalability, and availability. Today, we’re talking to Shawn Bice, vice president of non-relational databases at AWS, and Rahul Pathak, general manager of big data, data lakes, and blockchain at AWS . They share AWS’ overall database strategy and how to choose the best tool for wh...
Feb 27, 2019•37 min•Ep. 50
Does operating system (OS) choice even matter anymore to most people? Especially with the emergence of serverless and containers? Debian may not see its name up in lights much these days, but it’s still very much front, center, and relevant to what people are doing in Cloud environments. Today, we’re talking to Elana Hashman, a Python packager and Debian developer. Everything inside a base operating system may not be interesting to end users, but such a collection of components is necessary to c...
Feb 20, 2019•36 min•Ep. 49
Companies can find working in the Cloud quite complicated. However, it’s a lot easier than it used to be, especially when trying to comply with regulations. That’s because Cloud providers have evolved and now offer more out-of-the-box services that focus on regulation requirements and compliance. Today, we’re talking to Elliot Murphy. He’s the founder of Kindly Ops, which provides consulting advice to companies dealing with regulated workloads in the Cloud. Some of the highlights of the show inc...
Feb 13, 2019•34 min•Ep. 48
More and more enterprises and on-prem applications are moving to the Cloud. Therefore, flexibility, agility, time-to-market, and cost effectiveness need to be created to address a lack of visibility and control. Today, we’re talking to Archana Kesavan, senior product marketing manager at ThousandEyes. The company offers a network intelligence platform that provides visibility to Internet-centric, SaaS, or Cloud-based enterprise environments. Our discussion focuses on ThousandEyes’ 2018 Public Cl...
Feb 06, 2019•27 min•Ep. 47
If you’re looking for older services at AWS, there really aren’t any. For example, Simple Storage Service (S3) has been with us since the beginning. It was the first publicly launched service that was quickly followed by Simple Queue Service (SQS). Still today, when it comes to these services, simplicity is key! Today, we’re talking to Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, vice president of S3 at AWS. Many people use S3 the same way that they have for years, such as for backups in the Cloud. However, others h...
Jan 30, 2019•34 min•Ep. 46
Do you have to deal with data protection? Do you usually mess it up? Some people think data protection architecture is broken and requires too many dependencies. By the time a business needs to backup a lot of data, it’s a complex problem to go back in time to retrofit a backup solution for an existing infrastructure. Fortunately, Rubrik found a way to streamline data protection components. Today, we’re talking to Chris Wahl and Ken Hui of Rubrik. Some of the highlights of the show include: Tran...
Jan 23, 2019•32 min•Ep. 45
Do you have some spare time? Can you figure out an easier way to do something? Then, why not build some software?! Today, we’re talking to Ian Mckay of Kablamo, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) consultancy. He is the author of Console Recorder, which is a browser extension that records your actions in the Management Console to convert them into SDK code and infrastructure as code templates. Some of the highlights of the show include: Timeline to build Console Recorder Infrastructure as Code: How to ...
Jan 09, 2019•24 min•Ep. 44
