About Forrest Forrest is a cloud educator, cartoonist, author, and Pwnie Award-winning songwriter. He currently leads the content marketing team at Google Cloud. You can buy his book, The Read Aloud Cloud, from Wiley Publishing or attend his talks at public and private events around the world. Links: The Cloud Bard Speaks: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/the-cloud-bard-speaks-with-forrest-brazeal/ The Read Aloud Cloud : https://www.amazon.com/Read-Aloud-Cloud-Innocen...
Sep 01, 2021•37 min•Ep 245•Transcript available on Metacast About Ant Ant Co-founded A Cloud Guru, ServerlessConf, JeffConf, ServerlessDays and now running Senzo/Homeschool, in between other things. He needs to work on his decision making. Links: A Cloud Guru: https://acloudguru.com homeschool.dev: https://homeschool.dev aws.training: https://aws.training learn.microsoft.com: https://learn.microsoft.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/iamstan...
Aug 31, 2021•37 min•Ep 244•Transcript available on Metacast About Craig Craig McLuckie is a VP of R&D at VMware in the Modern Applications Business Unit. He joined VMware through the Heptio acquisition where he was CEO and co-founder. Heptio was a startup that supported the enterprise adoption of open source technologies like Kubernetes. He previously worked at Google where he co-founded the Kubernetes project, was responsible for the formation of CNCF, and was the original product lead for Google Compute Engine. Links: VMware: https://www.vmware.com...
Aug 26, 2021•34 min•Ep 243•Transcript available on Metacast About Clint Clint is the CEO and a co-founder at Cribl, a company focused on making observability viable for any organization, giving customers visibility and control over their data while maximizing value from existing tools. Prior to co-founding Cribl, Clint spent two decades leading product management and IT operations at technology and software companies, including Splunk and Cricket Communications. As a former practitioner, he has deep expertise in network issues, database administration, a...
Aug 25, 2021•34 min•Ep 242•Transcript available on Metacast About Rich Rich Burroughs is a Senior Developer Advocate at Loft Labs where he's focused on improving workflows for developers and platform engineers using Kubernetes. He's the creator and host of the Kube Cuddle podcast where he interviews members of the Kubernetes community. He is one of the founding organizers of DevOpsDays Portland, and he's helped organize other community events. Rich has a strong interest in how working in tech impacts mental health. He has ADHD and has documented his jour...
Aug 24, 2021•37 min•Ep 241•Transcript available on Metacast About Will Will is recovering System Administrator with a decade's worth of experience in technology and management. He now embraces the never-ending wild and exciting world of Information Security. Links: Color Health: https://www.color.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/willgregorian
Aug 19, 2021•36 min•Ep 240•Transcript available on Metacast About Cliff Cliff is an Agile Consultant and self proclaimed “computer botherer.” Links: Agile Manifesto: https://agilemanifesto.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/moonpolysoft
Aug 18, 2021•39 min•Ep 240•Transcript available on Metacast About John John Allspaw has worked in software systems engineering and operations for over twenty years in many different environments. John’s publications include the books The Art of Capacity Planning (2009) and Web Operations (2010) as well as the forward to “The DevOps Handbook.” His 2009 Velocity talk with Paul Hammond, “10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation” helped start the DevOps movement. John served as CTO at Etsy, and holds an MSc in Human Factors and Systems Safety from Lund U...
Aug 17, 2021•32 min•Ep 239•Transcript available on Metacast About Nader Currently working to help build the decentralized future at Edge and Node. Previously led Developer Advocacy for Front End Web and Mobile at Amazon Web Services. Specializing in GraphQL, cross platform, & cloud enabled web & mobile application development Developing applications & reference architectures using a combination of GraphQL & serverless technologies built on AWS 4 years experience training fortune 500 companies on web & mobile application development, w...
Aug 12, 2021•37 min•Ep 238•Transcript available on Metacast About Serena Serena Tiede is a SRE at Optum, a healthcare technology company that manages everything from the delivery of care to the management of patient data. Prior to becoming an SRE they were a Kafka operator for real time security logging and ingestion. In their off time, they moonlight as the proud admin of an incredibly over engineered Minecraft server. Links: Optim: https://www.optum.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SerenaTiede Personal Blog: https://blog.serenacodes.com...
Aug 10, 2021•39 min•Ep 237•Transcript available on Metacast About Amy With over ten years industry experience, Amy Arambulo Negrette has built web applications for a variety of industries including Yahoo! Fantasy Sports and NASA Ames Research Center. One of her projects modernized two legacy systems impacting the entire research center and won her a Certificate of Excellence from the Ames Contractor Council. More recently, she built APIs for enterprise clients for a cloud consulting firms and led a team of Cloud Software Engineers. Amy has survived acqui...
Aug 05, 2021•35 min•Ep 236•Transcript available on Metacast About Jesse Jesse is a seasoned operations engineer with a deep passion for understanding complex technical and organizational systems. He's spent his career helping Engineering teams achieve their business goals by improving how they interact with their technical systems, and with each other. He's currently a Cloud Economist with Duckbill Group, guiding organizations along their journey of cloud cost optimization and management. Links: The Duckbill Group: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/ Jesse’s ...
Aug 03, 2021•32 min•Ep 235•Transcript available on Metacast About James James is the Redmonk co-founder, sunshine in a bag, industry analyst loves developers, "motivating in a surreal kind of way". Came up with "progressive delivery". He/Him Links: RedMonk: https://redmonk.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MonkChips Monktoberfest: https://monktoberfest.com/ Monki Gras: https://monkigras.com/...
Jul 29, 2021•41 min•Ep 234•Transcript available on Metacast About Sean Sean Kilgore is an Architect at Twilio, where he draws boxes, lighthouses and soapboxes. In Sean’s spare time, he enjoys reading, walking, gaming, and a well-made drink. Links: Twilio: https://www.twilio.com/ Silvia Botros's Twitter: https://twitter.com/dbsmasher Sean's Twitter: https://twitter.com/log1kal...
Jul 27, 2021•35 min•Ep 233•Transcript available on Metacast About Nigel Nigel Kersten’s day job is Field CTO at Puppet where he leads a group of engineers who work with Puppet’s largest customers on cultural and organizational changes necessary for large-scale DevOps implementations - among other things. He’s a co-author of the industry-leading State Of DevOps Report and likes to evenly talk about what went right with DevOps and what went wrong based on this research and his experience in the field. He’s held multiple positions at Puppet across product a...
Jul 22, 2021•41 min•Ep 232•Transcript available on Metacast This week Corey is joined by Anurag Gupta, founder and CEO of Shoreline.io . Anurag guides us through the large variety of services he helped launch to include RDS, Aurora, EMR, Redshift and other. The result? Running things almost like a start-up—but with some distinct differences. Eventually Anurag ended up back in the testy waters of start-ups. He and Corey discuss the nature of that transition to get back to solving holistic problems, tapping into conveying those stories, and what Anurag was...
Jul 20, 2021•39 min•Ep 231•Transcript available on Metacast About Michael Michael Garski is the Director of Platform Engineering at Fender Musical Instruments, where he leads the teams responsible for service development & testing, devops, and data. He’s been with Fender for over 5 years and prior to that worked as a software engineer & architect on back-end systems at Viant, MySpace, Countrywide Home Loans & Fandango. He is passionate about application reliability and observability and their impact on customer satisfaction. Links: LinkedIn: ...
Jul 15, 2021•36 min•Ep 230•Transcript available on Metacast Links: CTO Whitepaper: Reinventing Enterprise Networks for the Cloud Era www.alkira.com
Jul 13, 2021•33 min•Ep 229•Transcript available on Metacast About Jason Jason Yee is Director of Advocacy at Gremlin where he helps companies build more resilient systems by learning from how they fail. He also leads the internal Chaos Engineering practices to make Gremlin more reliable. Previously, he worked at Datadog, O’Reilly Media, and MongoDB. His pandemic-coping activities include drinking whiskey, cooking everything in a waffle iron, and making craft chocolate. Links: Break Things On Purpose podcast: https://www.gremlin.com/podcast/ Twitter: http...
Jul 08, 2021•35 min•Ep 228•Transcript available on Metacast About Cassidy Cassidy is a Principal Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify. She's worked for several other places, including CodePen, Amazon, and Venmo, and she's had the honor of working with various non-profits, including cKeys and Hacker Fund as their Director of Outreach. She's active in the developer community, and one of Glamour Magazine's 35 Women Under 35 Changing the Tech Industry and LinkedIn's Top Professionals 35 & Under. As an avid speaker, Cassidy has participated in several...
Jul 06, 2021•42 min•Ep 227•Transcript available on Metacast About Nick Nick Frichette is a Penetration Tester and Team Lead for State Farm. Outside of work he does vulnerability research. His current primary focus is developing techniques for AWS exploitation. Additionally he is the founder of hackingthe.cloud which is an open source encyclopedia of the attacks and techniques you can perform in cloud environments. Links: Hacking the Cloud: https://hackingthe.cloud/ Determine the account ID that owned an S3 bucket vulnerability: https://hackingthe.cloud/a...
Jul 01, 2021•36 min•Ep 226•Transcript available on Metacast About Christina Christina Maslach, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology (Emerita) and a researcher at the Healthy Workplaces Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her A.B. from Harvard, and her Ph.D. from Stanford. She is best known as the pioneering researcher on job burnout, producing the standard assessment tool (the Maslach Burnout Inventory, MBI), books, and award-winning articles. The impact of her work is reflected by the official recognition of burnout, as an occupa...
Jun 29, 2021•34 min•Ep 225•Transcript available on Metacast About Scott Scott is a web developer who has been blogging at https://hanselman.com for over a decade. He works in Open Source on ASP.NET and the Azure Cloud for Microsoft out of his home office in Portland, Oregon. Scott has three podcasts, http://hanselminutes.com for tech talk, http://thisdeveloperslife.com on developers' lives and loves, and http://ratchetandthegeek.com for pop culture and tech media. He's written a number of books and spoken in person to almost a half million developers wor...
Jun 24, 2021•43 min•Ep 224•Transcript available on Metacast About Martin Martin Mao is the co-founder and CEO of Chronosphere. He was previously at Uber, where he led the development and SRE teams that created and operated M3. Prior to that, he was a technical lead on the EC2 team at AWS and has also worked for Microsoft and Google. He and his family are based in our Seattle hub and he enjoys playing soccer and eating meat pies in his spare time. Links: Chronosphere: https://chronosphere.io/ Email: contact@chronosphere.io...
Jun 22, 2021•42 min•Ep 223•Transcript available on Metacast About AJ AJ Yawn is a seasoned cloud security professional that possesses over a decade of senior information security experience with extensive experience managing a wide range of cybersecurity compliance assessments (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, etc.) for a variety of SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS providers. AJ advises startups on cloud security and serves on the Board of Directors of the ISC2 Miami chapter as the Education Chair, he is also a Founding Board member of the National Association of Black Comp...
Jun 17, 2021•34 min•Ep 222•Transcript available on Metacast About Mike Beside his duties as The Duckbill Group’s CEO, Mike is the author of O’Reilly’s Practical Monitoring, and previously wrote the Monitoring Weekly newsletter and hosted the Real World DevOps podcast. He was previously a DevOps Engineer for companies such as Taos Consulting, Peak Hosting, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and many more. Mike is originally from Knoxville, TN (Go Vols!) and currently resides in Portland, OR. Links: Software Engineering Daily podcast: https://softwareengineeri...
Jun 15, 2021•33 min•Ep 221•Transcript available on Metacast About Guy Guy Raz is a Sr. Systems Engineer at ExtraHop with previous experience as a Network Engineer and Solution Architect. Guy is one of the SMEs leading the unique ExtraHop approach to cloud-native NDR for the hybrid multi-cloud enterprise. Before joining the Sales Engineer team, Guy was one of the ExtraHop Solution Architects, responsible for conducting deep technical and business discovery sessions, assisting in troubleshooting and problem resolution during war-room and security/network i...
Jun 10, 2021•33 min•Ep 220•Transcript available on Metacast About Austin Austin makes problems with computers, and sometimes solves them. He’s an open source maintainer, observability nerd, devops junkie, and poster. You can find him ignoring HN threads and making dumb jokes on Twitter. He wrote a book about distributed tracing, taught some college courses, streams on Twitch, and also ran a DevOps conference in Animal Crossing. Links: Lightstep: https://lightstep.com/ Lightstep Sandbox: https://lightstep.com/sandbox Desert Island DevOps: https://deserted...
Jun 08, 2021•38 min•Ep 219•Transcript available on Metacast About Donnie Donnie is VP of Products at Docker and leads product vision and strategy. He manages a holistic products team including product management, product design, documentation & analytics. Before joining Docker, Donnie was an executive in residence at Scale Venture Partners and VP of IT Service Delivery at CWT leading the DevOps transformation. Prior to those roles, he led a global team at 451 Research (acquired by S&P Global Market Intelligence), advised startups and Global 2000 ...
Jun 03, 2021•34 min•Ep 218•Transcript available on Metacast About Owen Owen Rogers wears many hats at 451 Research; he’s research director of cloud transformation and digital economics and head of the quantum computing centre of excellence. Prior to these positions, Owen was a doctoral researcher in cloud computing at the University of Bristol, completing his PhD thesis in 2013; a product portfolio manager at Claranet; and an independent product management and cloud computing consultant, among other positions. Join Corey and Owen as they talk about what ...
Jun 01, 2021•38 min•Ep 217•Transcript available on Metacast 
