About Simon Elisha As Head of Technology and Transformation at Amazon Web Services, Simon Elisha is sought after by C-Level Executives who want deep insights into combining modern technology innovations with the pragmatic lessons learned from hard-earned experience. An expert in Cloud Computing and Organizational Change needed to get the most out of it; Simon is able to demystify how technology innovation is best applied to enable organisations improve customer experience, reduce costs and adapt...
Aug 13, 2020•42 min•Ep. 133
About Jaana Dogan Jaana Dogan is working on Spanner at Google to make state not your problem problem. She has 15+ years of experience in building infrastructure, developer platforms, and tools. Jaana's current work is focused on storage systems, observability and performance tools, and helping customers with architectural design tradeoffs. Links Referenced: Recommended book: https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications-Reliable-Maintainable/dp/1449373321 Twitter: https://twitter....
Aug 11, 2020•35 min•Ep. 132
About Jon Myer A Partner Solutions Architect for Cloud Management Tools at AWS. Jon Myer is an evangelist for all things AWS and passionate about educating, teaching, and connecting with others about new or existing services AWS releases. Links Referenced: The AWS Blogger: https://www.theawsblogger.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/_jonmyer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-myer/...
Aug 06, 2020•43 min•Ep. 131
About Tim Bray: Tim is a general-purpose Internet-software geek. He specializes in Web, search, writing, speaking, business. He founded Textuality in 1996. He is available for consulting on issues of technology leadership, software construction, and distributed systems. You can follow Tim's musings on his blog ongoing and on Twitter . Links Referenced: “Working Effectively with Legacy Code”: https://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Feathers/dp/0131177052 Twitter: https://twitter...
Aug 04, 2020•46 min•Ep. 130
About Katie Bullard As President of A Cloud Guru, Katie leads the sales, marketing, customer success, and partnership teams for the world's largest and most trusted cloud training platform. Links Referenced: Main company site: https://acloud.guru/ and https://acloudguru.com A Cloud Guru Twitter: https://twitter.com/acloudguru A Cloud Guru LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/a-cloud-guru/...
Jul 30, 2020•36 min•Ep. 129
About Liz Fong-Jones Liz is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 16+ years of experience. She is an advocate at Honeycomb for the SRE and Observability communities, and previously was an SRE working on products ranging from the Google Cloud Load Balancer to Google Flights. Links Referenced Company Site: https://www.honeycomb.io/ The Duckbill Group: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/ Honeycomb Liz: https://www.honeycomb.io/liz Personal site: https...
Jul 28, 2020•36 min•Ep. 128
About Forrest Brazeal Forrest is an enterprise cloud architect, speaker, and community advocate. Currently a senior manager at A Cloud Guru, he spent years designing applications for the cloud at Infor and Trek10. One of the original AWS Serverless Heroes, Forrest was also named one of Jefferson Frank's Top 7 Global AWS Experts in 2019. His first book, "The Read-Aloud Cloud", is coming from Wiley in September 2020. Links Referenced Book: https://www.amazon.com/Read-Aloud-Cloud-Innocents-Inside/d...
Jul 21, 2020•36 min•Ep. 127
About Melanie Cebula Melanie Cebula is an expert in Cloud Infrastructure, where she is recognized worldwide for explaining radically new ways of thinking about cloud efficiency and usability. She is an international keynote speaker, presenting complex technical topics to a broad range of audiences, both international and domestic. Melanie is a staff engineer at Airbnb, where she has experience building a scalable modern architecture on top of cloud-native technologies. Besides her expertise in t...
Jul 14, 2020•37 min•Ep. 126
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Jul 07, 2020•36 min•Ep. 125
About Jessy Irwin Jessy is Founder at Amulet. She enjoys the challenge of translating complex cybersecurity problems into relatable terms, and is responsible for developing, maintaining and delivering comprehensive ecosystem security strategy that supports and enables the needs of the people who depend on Tendermint and the CosmosSDK. Links Referenced: https://twitter.com/jessysaurusrex https://jessysaurusrex.com...
Jul 02, 2020•40 min•Ep. 124
About Dwayne Monroe I've been a technologist, in some form, for most of my conscious life (starting with a Sinclair kit computer). I work as a cloud architect, focused on Azure and spend a lot of time thinking and writing about that (particularly controlling spend). Besides that, I enjoy a good Bordeaux or martini, travel and my life as a transplant to Amsterdam. Links Referenced: https://retool.com/ https://twitter.com/cloudquistador https://www.linkedin.com/in/cloudquistador/ http://monroelab....
Jun 30, 2020•38 min•Ep. 123
About Wes Miller Wes Miller analyzes and writes about Azure infrastructure services, including Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Active Directory, and Microsoft systems management technologies. Before joining Directions on Microsoft , Wes was a product manager and development manager for several Austin, TX, start-ups, including Winternals Software, acquired by Microsoft in 2006. Prior to that, Wes spent seven years at Microsoft working as a program manager in the Windows Core Operating System and...
Jun 25, 2020•42 min•Ep. 122
About David Boeke David Boeke is the CTO and VP Services for Turbot. David has 25+ years of experience in IT and is recognized as a transformational leader that has enabled some of the world's largest enterprise organizations to make the transition to public cloud. Prior to joining Turbot, David was the Global Head of Enterprise Architecture and led the cloud transformation for a Fortune 50 life sciences company." Links Turbot: https://turbot.com/...
Jun 23, 2020•35 min•Ep. 121
About Chris Hill Chris is a Knoxville, TN native and owner of the podcast production company, HumblePod. In addition to producing podcasts for nationally-recognized thought leaders, Chris is the co-host and producer of the award-winning Our Humble Beer Podcast. He also lectures at the University of Tennessee, where he leads courses on podcasts and marketing. He received his undergraduate degree in business at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he majored in Marketing & Entrepre...
Jun 18, 2020•32 min•Ep. 120
About Miles Ward As Chief Technology Officer at SADA, Miles Ward leads SADA’s cloud strategy and solutions capabilities. His remit includes delivering next-generation solutions to challenges in big data and analytics, application migration, infrastructure automation, and cost optimization; reinforcing our engineering culture; and engaging with customers on their most complex and ambitious plans around Google Cloud. Previously, Miles served as Director and Global Lead for Solutions at Google Clou...
Jun 16, 2020•41 min•Ep. 119
About Alex DeBrie Alex is an author and self-employed AWS trainer and consultant focused on serverless & cloud-native technologies. He has been recognized as an AWS Data Hero for his community work with DynamoDB and other database technologies. In a previous job, he worked at Serverless, Inc., creators of the Serverless Framework. If you go even further back in his employment history, you'll see Alex had a brief stint as a corporate lawyer. Links Referenced The DynamoDB Book: https://www.dyn...
Jun 11, 2020•34 min•Ep. 118
About Stephen O’Grady Stephen O'Grady is a Principal Analyst and co-founder of RedMonk, the open source industry analyst firm. He focuses on infrastructure software such as programming languages, operating systems and databases, as well as covering horizontal industry trends such as open source and cloud computing. Before setting up RedMonk, Stephen worked as an analyst at Illuminata by drawing on his real world expertise in architecting and developing applications for leading systems integrator...
Jun 09, 2020•31 min•Ep. 117
About Sid Rao Sid Rao is the GM of Amazon Chime. He has over 25 years of industry experience, having worked at Infosys, Nortel, Microsoft, and CTI Group. Links Referenced https://chime.aws “ Chime after Chime ” by Tim Leehane and Spencer Johnson
Jun 04, 2020•45 min•Ep. 116
About Jeff Sandquist Jeff leads Developer Relations for the cloud at Microsoft, leading the team reinventing Microsoft's relationship with software developers around the globe. Their team is maniacal about making the world amazing for developers of all backgrounds. They are excited to support and contribute to open source platforms, tools, and processes. As Developer Advocates, they’re spreading awareness of Azure and enabling developers to do what they love; write, code, and learn. Great online...
Jun 02, 2020•58 min•Ep. 115
About Colin Percival Colin is the founder of Tarsnap, a secure online backup service which combines the flexibility and scriptability of the standard UNIX "tar" utility with strong encryption, deduplication, and the reliability of Amazon S3 storage. Having started work on Tarsnap in 2006, Colin is among the first generation of users of Amazon Web Services, and has written dozens of articles about his experiences with AWS on his blog. Colin has been a member of the FreeBSD project for 15 years an...
May 27, 2020•34 min•Ep. 114
About Prashanth Chandrasekar Prashanth Chandrasekar is Chief Executive Officer of Stack Overflow and is responsible for driving Stack Overflow’s overall strategic direction and results. Prashanth is a proven technology executive with extensive experience leading and scaling high growth global organizations. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace’s Cloud & Infrastructure Services portfolio of businesses, including the Managed Public Clouds, Private C...
May 20, 2020•33 min•Ep. 113
About Bryan Liles Bryan Liles is a Senior Staff Engineer at VMware. He leads the Developer Experience group, which creates solutions to help developers be more productive in Kubernetes. When not working, Bryan builds and races cars and drones. Over the past 20 years, Bryan has worked around cloud technology and distributed systems. His approaches to technology are: simplify with fidelity and technology should give access to all. Links Referenced: https://vmware.com...
May 13, 2020•34 min•Ep. 112
About Jill Rouleau Jill Rouleau is a member of the Ansible engineering team, focused on maintaining AWS and other Cloud modules. Prior to Ansible, they worked on OpenStack, using more than a decade of operations and SRE experience to improve deployment tooling for cloud operators. Links Referenced: Jill Rouleau's Twitter Ansible RedHat...
May 06, 2020•36 min•Ep. 111
About the Jeff Smith Jeff Smith has been in the technology industry for over 15 years, oscillating between management and individual contributor. Jeff currently serves as the Director of Production Operations for Centro, an advertising software company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Before that he served as the Manager of Site Reliability Engineering at Grubhub. Jeff is passionate about DevOps transformations in organizations large and small, with a particular interest in the psychological ...
Apr 29, 2020•37 min•Ep. 110
About Yulan Lin Yulan is a data nerd with experience in everything from bioinformatics to NLP. She’s currently working as a Developer Advocate for Google’s Data Studio. Prior to Google, she worked in research, event management, and government data science. When not computerating, she can be found reading, hosting dinner parties, and making music. Links Referenced DigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/ CHAOSSEARCH.io http://do.co/screaming DataStax: http://www.datastax.com https://www.datast...
Apr 22, 2020•30 min•Ep. 109
About Hiro Nishimura M.Ed. in Special Education from University of Maryland. Five years experience working as an IT Engineer in New York City. Now, a “Freepreneur” (Freelance Entrepreneur) in the DC suburbs. Technical Course Instructor at LinkedIn Learning. Founder of AWS Newbies and Cloud Newbies . Founder and CEO of 24 Villages, LLC . – a Writing and Consulting company. Links DigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/ http://do.co/screaming http://CHAOSSEARCH.io AWSNewbies.com Twitter: https:...
Apr 15, 2020•38 min•Ep. 108
About xssfox Just a dumb fox Links Referenced: DigitalOcean https://www.digitalocean.com/ CHAOSSEARCH http://CHAOSSEARCH.io Big Buck AWS https://github.com/xssfox/bigbuckaws Corey’s talk, “Terrible Ideas in Git” https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/terrible-ideas-in-git-by-corey-quinn/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/xssfox Screaming in the Cloud http://ScreamingintheCloud.com...
Apr 08, 2020•28 min•Ep. 107
About Sandy Carter Sandy Carter is the AWS Vice President, Public Sector Partners and Programs. In her new role, she is responsible for driving next-generation partnering. Her responsibilities include evolving partner models to intensify partner innovation, AWS cloud adoption and creation of mission critical cloud solutions with partners across public sector. Her impact will be growing the partner ecosystem as a major driver for public sector and contributing significantly to the success of Publ...
Apr 01, 2020•44 min•Ep. 106
About Ben Sigelman Ben Sigelman is a co-founder and the CEO at LightStep, a co-creator of Dapper (Google’s distributed tracing system), and co-creator of the OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry projects (both part of the CNCF). Ben's work and interests gravitate towards observability, especially where microservices, high transaction volumes, and large engineering organizations are involved. Links Referenced OpenTracing: https://opentracing.io/ OpenTelemetry: https://opentelemetry.io/ Twitter: https://...
Mar 25, 2020•31 min•Ep. 105
About Farrah Campbell After 10 years of working in healthcare management, a serendipitous 20-minute car ride with Kara Swisher inspired Farrah to make the jump into technology. She has worked at multiple startups in many different capacities, eventually working her way to being the Ecosystems Director for Stackery in Portland, Oregon. As the Stackery Ecosystems Director, Farrah has managed the Stackery relationship with AWS including Stackery as an Advanced Technology Partner, achieving the AWS ...
Mar 18, 2020•30 min•Ep. 104
