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The Cloud & Climate Change with Paul Johnston
9 oktober 2019 · 32 min
About Paul Johnston
Paul Johnston is an interim CTO, CTO and strategist who has particular interests in serverless, cloud, startups and climate change. Formerly, Paul served as a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS for Serverless and CTO of multiple startups, including one of the world’s first serverless startups. Paul’s also a keynote speaker, tweets a lot at @PaulDJohnston, and blogs a lot on Medium. Right now, he may also be working in stealth mode on something (it’s probably serverless)… Lees meerLinks Referenced
Twitter Username: PaulDJohnston
LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/padajo/
Personal site: https://medium.com/@PaulDJohnston
Company site: http://roundaboutlabs.com/
Sponsor: Manifold
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Five Characteristics That Define the Cloud with Nicole Forsgren, PhD
2 oktober 2019 · 39 min
About Nicole Forsgren, PhD
Dr. Nicole Forsgren does research and strategy at Google Cloud following the acquisition of her startup DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) by Google. She is co-author of the Shingo Publication Award winning book Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps, and is best known for her work measuring the technology process and as the lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She has been an entrepreneur, professor, sysadmin, and performance engineer. Nicole’s work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals. Nicole earned her PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona, and is a Research Affiliate at Clemson University and Florida International University. Lees meerLinks Referenced
Twitter Username: @nicolefv
LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolefv/
Personal site: nicolefv.com
Company site: cloud.google.com/devops
Manifold: https://www.manifold.co/
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The Future of Application Security with Andrew Peterson
25 september 2019 · 35 min
About Andrew Peterson
Andrew Peterson is the CEO and Cofounder of Signal Sciences. Under Peterson’s leadership, Signal Sciences has become the #1 and most trusted provider of next-gen WAF and RASP technology and one of the fastest growing cybersecurity companies in the world. As CEO, Peterson is responsible for overseeing all business functions, go-to-market activities, and attainment of strategic, operational and financial goals. Lees meerPrior to founding Signal Sciences, Peterson has been building leading edge, high performing product and sales teams across five continents for over fifteen years with such companies as Etsy, Google, and the Clinton Foundation. In 2016, O’Reilly published his book Cracking Security Misconceptions to encourage non-security professionals to take part in organizational security. He graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Science, Technology, and Society.
Links Referenced
Twitter: @ampeters06
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewmarshallpetersonSignal Sciences
Sponsor: X-Team
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Going Serverless with AJ Stuyvenberg
18 september 2019 · 40 min
About AJ Stuyvenberg
Aaron Stuyvenberg (AJ) is a Senior Engineer at Serverless Inc, focused on creating the best possible Serverless developer experience. Before Serverless, he was a Lead Engineer at SportsEngine (an NBCUniversal company). When he's not busy writing software, you can find him skydiving, BASE jumping, biking, or fishing. Lees meerLinks Referenced:
Twitter: @astuyve
Serverless.com
Serverless Blog
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Reverse Engineering the Capital One Breach with Josh Stella
11 september 2019 · 35 min
About Josh Stella Lees meer
Josh Stella is co-founder and CTO of Fugue, the company delivering autonomous cloud infrastructure security and compliance. Previously, Josh was a Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he supported customers in the area of national security. Prior to Fugue, Josh served as CTO for a technology startup and, for 25 years, in numerous other IT leadership and technical roles.
Links Referenced
Twitter: @joshstella
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/josh-stella-949a9711
www.fugue.co
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The Anatomy of Developer Advocacy with Matt Broberg
4 september 2019 · 38 min
About Matt Broberg Lees meer
Matt loves working with technology communities to develop products and content that invite delightful engagement. He’s a serial podcaster, best known for the Geek Whisperers podcast, is on the board of the Influence Marketing Council, co-maintains the DevRel Collective, and often shares his thoughts on Twitter and GitHub @mbbroberg. He’s also a fan of tattoos and cats, though remains unsure of Schrödinger’s.
Links Referenced:
Twitter Username: Mbbroberg
LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbbroberg/
Personal site: Mbbroberg.fun
X-Team
CHAOSSEARCH
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How to Grade DevOps Teams with Nicole Forsgren, PhD
28 augustus 2019 · 39 min
About Nicole Forsgren, PhD Lees meer
Dr. Nicole Forsgren does research and strategy at Google Cloud following the acquisition of her startup DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) by Google. She is co-author of the Shingo Publication Award winning book Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps, and is best known for her work measuring the technology process and as the lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She has been an entrepreneur, professor, sysadmin, and performance engineer. Nicole’s work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals. Nicole earned her PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona, and is a Research Affiliate at Clemson University and Florida International University.
Links Referenced:
Twitter Username: @nicolefv
LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolefv/
Personal site: nicolefv.com
Company site: cloud.google.com/devops
X-Team: x-team.com/cloud
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Episode 74 - Podcasting about Podcasting with Richard Campbell
21 augustus 2019 · 32 min
About Richard Campbell Lees meer
Richard Campbell wrote his first line of code in 1977. His career has spanned the computing industry both on the hardware and software sides, development and operations. He was a co-founder of Strangeloop Networks, acquired by Radware in 2013 and was on the board of directors of Telerik which was acquired by Progress Software in 2014. Today he is a consultant and advisor to a number of successful technology firms and is the founder and chairman of Humanitarian Toolbox (www.htbox.org), a public charity that builds open source software for disaster relief. Richard is also the host of two podcasts: .NET Rocks! (www.dotnetrocks.com) the Internet Audio Talkshow for .NET developers and RunAs Radio (www.runasradio.com) which is a weekly show for IT Professionals.
Links Referenced:
Twitter Username: richcampbell
LinkedIn URL: www.linkedin.com/in/richjcampbell
Personal site: https://rcampbell.me/
Company site: http://runasradio.com
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Episode 73 - Building a Cloud Supercomputer on AWS with Mike Warren
14 augustus 2019 · 31 min
About Mike Warren Lees meer
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 for outstanding achievement in high-performance computing. He has degrees in Physics and Engineering & Applied Science from Caltech, and he received a PhD in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Links Referenced
@m_warren
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-warren-3a0439b1/
https://lightstep.com/
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Episode 72: Data Security in AWS with Chris Vickery
7 augustus 2019 · 34 min
About Chris Vickery Lees meer
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 Trump’s campaign website, branches of the US Department of Defense, Tesla Motors, and many more.
Links Referenced:
https://www.upguard.com/
Twitter: @VickerySec
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Episode 71: Boomeranging Back into Microsoft with Tara Walker
31 juli 2019 · 23 min
About Tara Walker Lees meer
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 companies.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Georgia State University, and currently working on her Master’s degree in Computer Science (MSCS) at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Tara is passionate about technologies including: Artificial Intelligence/ML services & Deep Learning frameworks, Mobile/Game development, Cross-Platform development, and proficient with different programming languages. While primarily focused on IoT services engineering, she also leverages her knowledge and expertise with the aforementioned topics in speaker engagements, as well as, engagements directly to developers & software engineers with OpenHacks and Engineering Code-With activities with Microsoft customers throughout the global community. Her self-imposed goal is to help developers of all walks of life realize they can leverage their tech skills to not only become great engineers but Inventors of the next "Big Thing" that may change the world.
Links Referenced
https://lightstep.com/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/iot/
https://twitter.com/taraw
https://www.linkedin.com/in/taraewalker/
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Episode 70: Creating Custom T-Shirts through the Cloud with Ken Collins
24 juli 2019 · 30 min
About Ken Collins Lees meer
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
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Episode 69: On-Premise Nation-States with Dr. Galen Hunt
17 juli 2019 · 28 min
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 build Microsoft's first cloud operating system. Dr. Hunt holds 98 U.S. patents, a B.S. degree in Physics from the University of Utah, and Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Rochester. Lees meer
Links Referenced
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-sphere/
https://twitter.com/galen_hunt
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Episode 68: The Rise of the Cloud-First Generation with Christina Warren
10 juli 2019 · 45 min
About Christina Warren Lees meer
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, senior reporter, and commentator, with a focus on technology, business, and, entertainment. As a journalist, she appeared as an expert or commentator on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, CNBC, Fox News, Fox Business, Bloomberg, the BBC, Marketplace Radio, The Today Show, Good Morning America, and many more outlets.
She also co-hosts Rocket, a popular tech news podcast, which has the distinction of being one of the only tech podcasts with an all-female hosting team.
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Twitter: @film_girl
http://christina.is/
Rocket on Relay FM
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Episode 67: Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Mitchell Hashimoto
3 juli 2019 · 40 min
About Mitchell Hashimoto Lees meer
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 home.
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Twitter: @MitchellH
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Episode 66: VMware? VMhere with Sean O’Dell
27 juni 2019 · 38 min
About Sean O'Dell Lees meer
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 and CUSTOMER.
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Twitter: @theseanodell
VMware
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Episode 65: Cloud Coreyography Mark 2 with Azure’s Corey Sanders
19 juni 2019 · 32 min
About Corey Sanders Lees meer
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
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Episode 64: Serverless Runs on Serverless Framework with Austen Collins
12 juni 2019 · 40 min
About Austen Collins Lees meer
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 Referenced
Serverless.com
twitter.com/austencollins
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Episode 63: DevOps for Dummies with Emily Freeman
5 juni 2019 · 37 min
About Emily Freeman Lees meer
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 ghostwriting. No, those bloggers you read with millions of followers don’t write their own articles. Sorry to disappoint.
After many years of typing, Emily had a slightly-older-than-quarterlife crisis and made the bold (insane?!) choice to switch careers into software engineering. With no experience at all, she packed her six-month-old daughter, blind dog and a few boxes into her anti-mom mobile of a sports car and drove across the country to attend a seven-month code school.
Emily completed seven grueling months of code reviews, pair programming and learning Ruby on Rails. After falling in love with Denver, a city as vibrant as she is, Emily decided to stay.
Emily is the author of DevOps for Dummies and the curator of JavaScript January — a collection of JavaScript articles which attracts 30,000 visitors in the month of January. To learn more about Emily's story, visit Growth in Fear.
Links Referenced:
@editingemily
emilyfreeman.io
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Episode 62: Serverless Storytelling with Anna Spysz
29 mei 2019 · 33 min
About Anna Spysz Lees meer
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
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Episode 61: Building Microsoft Azure with Scott Guthrie
22 mei 2019 · 28 min
About Scott Guthrie Lees meer
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. Since joining the company in 1997, he has made critical contributions to many of Microsoft’s key cloud, server and development technologies and was one of the original founders of the .NET project. Guthrie graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Duke University.
Links Referenced
https://azure.microsoft.com/
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Episode 60: Managing Secrets for Kubernetes with Kamus with Omer Levi Hevroni
15 mei 2019 · 29 min
About Omer Levi Hevroni Lees meer
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; This is why he decided to become a paying member and also leading OWASP Glue.
Omer’s current job is DevSecOps – helping the entire team to produce more secure software. Besides his job, he’s also giving a lot of talks all over the world, and heavy OSS contributor – mainly to Kamus, a secret encryption solution for Kubernetes platform.
When he’s not working – he’s enjoying the company of his two beloved kids and his wife.
Links
https://twitter.com/omerlh
https://www.asurion.com/about/smb/who-we-are/
https://github.com/Soluto/kamus
https://omerlh.info
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Episode 59: Rebuilding AWS S3 in a Weekend with Valentino Volonghi
8 mei 2019 · 36 min
About Valentino Volonghi Lees meer
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
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Episode 58: The Cloud Is Great, But It Isn’t Perfect
1 mei 2019 · 33 min
About Richard Boyd Lees meer
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 research roles for the Center for Army Analysis. He holds advanced degrees in Applied Mathematics & Statistics.
Links Referenced
https://aws.amazon.com/deepracer/
https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway
https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/
https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation
https://twitter.com/cloudtrekau/status/936300151005626368
https://twitter.com/rchrdbyd
http://rboyd.dev
https://richardhboyd.com
https://linkedin.com/in/richard-h-boyd
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Episode 57: Building the Cloud: The logistics and practicality of going serverless in 2019
24 april 2019 · 29 min
About Richard Hartmann Lees meer
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
https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/build
https://reinvent.awsevents.com
https://twitter.com/twitchih
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Episode 56: Bringing Open Source to the Cloud
17 april 2019 · 36 min
About Jess Frazelle Lees meer
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.withgoogle.com
Joe.dev
Soul of a New Machine
github.com/Gazler/githug
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Episode 55: Get More out of the Cloud with AWS Training and Certification
10 april 2019 · 29 min
About Maureen Lonergan Lees meer
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 cloud knowledge. Education programs, including AWS Academy, aim to build a pipeline of cloud talent for the future. Over the course of the last 7 years, the organization has delivered training in over 50 Countries and hundreds of thousands of learners. Prior to Amazon, Maureen was the Senior Director for Partner Enablement at VMware where she built training and enablement programs and delivered training to hundreds of thousands of individuals across a channel of 30,000 partners. She’s also served as the Director of Technical Training and Enablement at Symantec and the Director of Education Services at Ariba.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
Where to get started learning about the cloud
The variety of AWS certifications offered
Why certifications are valuable for job prospects
The work that goes into designing the AWS training courses
Some partners where you can access training
Links:
https://www.aws.training
https://aws.amazon.com
https://aws.amazon.com/training/course-descriptions/
https://aws.amazon.com/training/learning-paths/
https://www.coursera.org/aws
https://aws.amazon.com/training/path-cloudpractitioner/
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/training-events/training-certifications/certifications/expert/ccie-routing-switching.html
https://www.edx.org/school/aws
https://www.coursera.org/aws
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Episode 54: Rethinking the Robot: How AWS Robotics is helping shape the future of domestic and commercial robotics
3 april 2019 · 32 min
Some of the highlights of the show include: Lees meer
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/
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Episode 53: Company Migration On Two Fronts: AWS and the Career Paths of Software Engineers
27 maart 2019 · 37 min
Some of the highlights of the show include: Lees meer
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/
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Episode 52: AWS as a Career Finding Clarity in the Ever-changing Job Market of the Cloud
20 maart 2019 · 41 min
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? Lees meer
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: what’s their value
How much value is in a job title
Most desirable skills from employers
Gender representation in the industry
The discrepancy in compensation based on geography
Links:
https://www.jeffersonfrank.com
https://www.jeffersonfrank.com/aws-salary-survey/
https://twitter.com/_JeffersonFrank
https://www.linkedin.com/company/jefferson-frank/
https://www.facebook.com/JeffersonFrank.AWS
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Episode 51: Size of Cloud Bill: Not About Number of Customers, but Number of Engineers You've Hired
6 maart 2019 · 43 min
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. Lees meer
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 company’s Cloud bill is so high.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
Companies struggle with field of Cloud economics; can be overwhelming because there’s so much to learn about products and implementation
Companies use the Cloud to grow quickly, which makes their Cloud costs grow quickly and more than expected
Only access to full list of every resource being used is the Cloud bill; there’s no comprehensive inventory service available
Companies need to offer visibility to Cloud bill; not everyone has access to understand how their actions impact the bill
Cost of Cloud bill is dependant on different factors, including new features, new users, and cost of goods sold (COGS)
Scale and manage bill by using a platform app or hiring a consultant/team
Understand pricing of AWS and learn best practices for cost controls early on
Don’t leave money on the table by focusing on engineering time - not best use of resources; focus on the smallest things that have the biggest impact
Cost is important, but don’t slow down those developing in the Cloud; open lines of communication to create culture to understand cost, value what’s measured
Links:
Dann Berg on Twitter
Datadog
re:Invent
AWS
Cost Explorer
CloudHealth
CloudCheckr
Cloudability
Lambda
EC2
GCP
Azure
CHAOSSEARCH
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Episode 50: If You Lose Data, Your Company is Having a Very Bad Day
27 februari 2019 · 37 min
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. Lees meer
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 what you want to build.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
Database Categories: Relational, key value, document, graph, in memory, ledger, and time series
AWS database strategy is to have the most popular and best APIs to sustain functionality, performance, and scale
Many database tools are available; pick based on use case and access pattern
Product recommendations feature highly connected data - who do you know who bought what and when?
Analytics Architecture: Use S3 as data lake, put in data via open-data format, and run multiple analyses using preferred tool at the same time on the same data
AWS offers Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) and Managed Blockchain to address use case and need for blockchain
Authenticity of data is a concern with traditional databases; consider a database tool or service that does not allow data to be changed
Lake Formation lets customers set up, build, and secure data lakes in less time
DocumentDB: Made as simple as possible to improve customer experience
AWS Culture: Awareness and recognition that it takes many to conceive, build, launch, and grow a product - acknowledge every participant, including customers
Links:
Amazon DocumentDB
MongoDB
Amazon RDS
React
Aurora
re:Invent
DynamoDB
Amazon Neptune
Amazon Elasti-Cache
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database
Amazon Timestream
Amazon S3
Amazon EMR
Amazon Athena
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Managed Blockchain
Amazon EC2
Amazon Lake Formation
Perl
CHAOSSEARCH
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Episode 49: Open Source Software: Slipping Beneath the Surface of Awareness
20 februari 2019 · 36 min
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. Lees meer
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 create a functioning Linux system.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
Alternative Linux operating systems, including Amazon Linux 2
Level of awareness about free software when choosing and distributing an OS
What is a Python packager? How do you become one?
Python is the new default language due to growth and adoption of its ecosystem
Packaging community off-putting to beginners; find someone who understands the system to guide you
Links:
Elana Hashman
Elana Hashman on Twitter
Elana Hashman on Mastodon
A tale of three Debian build tools
Python
Python Packaging Authority
PyCon
Debian
The Debian Women Project
Docker
Red Hat
Fortran
Amazon Linux 2
Go
Perl
SaltStack
OpenHatch
SCALE
Jordan Sissel on Twitter
DigitalOcean
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Episode 48: Nobody Gets Rid of Anything, Including Data
13 februari 2019 · 34 min
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. Lees meer
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 include:
Technical controls are easier, but requirements are stricter
Risk Analysis: Putting locks on things to thinking about risks to customers
Building governance and controls; making data available and removable
Secondary Losses: Scrub services to make scope and magnitude of loss smaller
Computing became ubiquitous and affordable; people started collecting data to utilize later - nobody gets rid of anything
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) set of regulations apply to marketing technology stacks to manage systems
Empathy building exercise and security culture diagnostic help companies understand compliance obligations
Security Culture: Beliefs and assumptions that drive decisions and actions
Evolution of understanding with public Cloud’s security and availability
Raise the bar and shift mindset from pure prevention to early detection/ mitigation; follow FAIR (factor analysis of information risk)
Links:
Kindly Ops
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Microsoft Azure
Relational Database Service (RDS)
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Nist Cybersecurity Framework
GDPR Day
People-Centric Security by Lance Hayden
Stripe
Society of Information Risk Analysts (SIRA)
DigitalOcean
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Episode 47: Racing the Clouds
6 februari 2019 · 27 min
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. Lees meer
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 Cloud Performance Benchmark Report.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
Purpose of Report: Reveals network performance and architecture connectivity for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud (GCP), and Microsoft Azure
Report gathered more than 160 million data points by leveraging ThousandEyes’ global fleet of agents that simulate users’ application traffic
Data collected during four-week period was ran through ThousandEyes’ global inference engine to identify trends and detect anomalies
Internet X factor when calibrating network performance of public Cloud providers; best-effort medium that has no predictability and is vulnerable to attacks
AWS’ performance predictability was lower than GCP Cloud and Azure leveraged their own backbones to move user traffic
Certain regions, such as Asia, were handled better by GCP and Azure than AWS
Customers should understand value of long-distance Internet latency when selecting a Cloud provider
Determine what the report’s data means for your business; conduct customized measurements for your environment
Links:
ThousandEyes
ThousandEyes on Twitter
ThousandEyes’ Blog
2018 Public Cloud Performance Benchmark Report
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Google Cloud
Microsoft Azure
AWS Global Accelerator for Availability and Performance
re:Invent
DigitalOcean
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Episode 46: Don't Be Afraid of the Bold Ask
30 januari 2019 · 34 min
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! Lees meer
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 have taken S3 and ran with it to find a myriad of different use cases.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
Data: Where do I put it? What do I do with it?
S3 Select and Cross-Region Replication (CRR) make it easier and cheaper to use and manage data
Customer feedback drives AWS S3 price options and tiers
Using Glacier and S3 together for archive data storage; decisions and constraints that affect people’s use and storage of data
Feature requests should meet customers where they are, rather than having to invest in time and training
Different design patterns and best practices to use when building applications
Batch operations make it easier for customers to manage objects stored in S3
AWS considers compliance and retention when building features
Mentorship: Don’t be afraid of the bold ask
Links:
re:Invent
AWS S3
Amazon SQS
AWS Glacier
Lambda
CHAOSSEARCH
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Episode 45: Everybody Needs Backup and Recovery
23 januari 2019 · 32 min
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. Lees meer
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:
Transform backup and recovery to send data to a public Cloud and convert it to native format
Add value and expand what can be done with data - rather than let it sit idle
Easy way for customers to start putting data into the Cloud is to replace their tape environment; people hate tape infrastructure more than their backups
Necessity to backup virtual machines (VMs) probably won’t go away because of challenges; Clouds and computers break
Customers leaving the data center and exploring the Cloud to improve operations, utilize automation
Business requirements for data to have a level of durability and availability
People vs. Technology: Which is the bottleneck when it comes to backups?
Words of Wisdom: Establish an end goal and workflow/pathway to get there
Links:
Rubrik
Chris Wahl on Twitter
Chris Wahl on LinkedIn
Ken Hui on Twitter
Ken Hui on Medium
Amazon S3
IBM AS/400
Amazon EC2 Instances
Azure Virtual Machine Instances
re:Invent
DigitalOcean
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Episode 44: Disagree In Commits Console Recorder for AWS
9 januari 2019 · 24 min
Do you have some spare time? Can you figure out an easier way to do something? Then, why not build some software?! Lees meer
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 code repeatedly without starting over and take ownership of what you built by hand
AWS vs. Individual Achievements: People asked AWS for years to create something to record console click-throughs that Ian did in his spare time
Console Recorder support for any browser that exports Web extensions
Sharp edges of what’s expected of Console Recorder to speed up development
Management Console’s unreadable responses require reverse engineering
Console Recorder: Recommended use cases and areas
How to alleviate security concerns with Console Recorder
Changes to Management Console that may break things
Ian’s past, present, and future projects and products
Words of Wisdom: If you don’t like something, just fix it yourself
Links:
Ian Mckay on Twitter
AWS Console Recorder
Kablamo
AWS
CloudFormation
Terraform
MediaLive
Jeff Barr
re:Invent
CDK
Google Cloud Platform
AWS Management Console
AWS RDS
AWS Lambda
DigitalOcean
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Episode 43: Here’s a Document on How to Best Deal with My Foibles
2 januari 2019 · 31 min
A Manager README is a document designed to establish clarity between a manager and those who report to them. These documents are especially useful for onboarding content. For example, if you have someone new starting on your team, there's so many things you need to share with them - pieces of advice and guidance that help them to make the best decision about what to do in specific situations. A Manager README sets some expectations in advance to make things easier and reduce friction and anxiety for team members. Lees meer
Today, we’re talking to Matt Newkirk, who manages Etsy’s localization and translation group. He explains that even if your company has an intensive onboarding program and review process, some things are still left out. A Manager README is a helpful and proactive piece of content that prompts conversations about how people perceive things.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
Avoid writing READMEs that are extremely self-centered/arrogant
READMEs clarify what to do until a relationship is established between the manager and their employee
Get feedback early on to make sure that what you include in the document is helpful; it should reflect reality and be discussed
Share README with your manager to make sure you’re both on the same page about team philosophies and expectations
README is a living document that needs to be updated occasionally because things change
README adds context; it’s not designed to make employee feel like they’re back in school and panicking because they’re not prepared
Manager README - Not Matt’s best selection of terminology
Who’s the best boss you ever had? Why? They can be a force that shapes your life and career from the right perspective
Philosophy of Management: Don’t do what terrible managers have done; be transparent about strategic reasons for priorities changing
Links:
Matt Newkirk
Matt Newkirk on LinkedIn
Matt Newkirk on Twitter
Share your Manager README
Etsy
Etsy’s Job Openings
Shane Garoutte on L…
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Episode 42: SCREAMING WITH CHAOSSEARCH: A reInvent reTrospective
26 december 2018 · 56 min
Would you like access to unlimited retention of your data within your Amazon S3, which costs far less than online storage on disc? Well, the next time you’re at re:Invent, visit CHAOSSEARCH’s booth. Lees meer
Today, we’re talking to Pete Cheslock, vice president of products at CHAOSSEARCH and former vice president of operations at Threat Stack. CHAOSSEARCH helps people get access to their login event data using Amazon S3.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
re:Invent - Year of the Pin: People go nuts for conference swag and were collecting pins as if they were gold
Scan Your Badge and Drip Emails: Annoying and passive-aggressive marketing trends meant to be spontaneous and interesting
Need a job? Corey’s looking to hire a “Quinntern” to use a tag email address to gather conference swag at the next re:invent; if interested, contact him
Corey and Pete’s Swag Rules: Something you want or can use, continues to be valuable, no sizes, no socks
Densify Drama: Conference flyer to generate leads failed, created complaints
Track and analyze data, but don’t use it to invade privacy or become creepy
Las Vegas: Right place for conferences, such as re:Invent?
Rather than focusing on going to conference sessions, make meeting and talking to people doing interesting things your priority
Midnight Madness Event: Only place Corey could do stand-up Cloud comedy
re:Invent 2019: Plan appropriately, identify what you want to get out of it, register ASAP to get a nearby hotel, and schedule meetings with AWS staff
Links:
Pete Cheslock on Twitter
Pete Cheslock on LinkedIn
CHAOSSEARCH
Threat Stack
AWS
Amazon S3
Amazon Elasticsearch
re:Invent
Corey Quinn’s Newsletter
Corey Quinn on Twitter
Corey Quinn’s Email
Sonian
Acloud.guru
Densify
Oracle
Apache Cassandra
DigitalOcean
AWS re:Invent 2018 - Keynote with Andy Jassy
AWS re:Invent 2018 - Keynote with Werner Vogels
AWS re:Inforce
VMware
Dreamforce
Kubernetes
Datadog
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Episode 41: Open Source is Not a Business Model
19 december 2018 · 32 min
Have you ever had high expectations about a new software product? Did you think it was going to be spectacular? Instead, did it become less about solving a problem for you and more about reaching a bunch of billable consultants? The dynamics of open source communities and the Cloud platform can make or break software products. Lees meer
Today, we’re talking to Andrew Clay Shafer, who was a notable voice during the days of OpenStack. He had high hopes for OpenStack, which was an effort to bring a democratized solution of Cloud computing to anyone’s data center. He describes the importance of understanding the challenges associated with open source projects in order for them to be successful.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
Open source is not a business model; capture value for customers, or they’ll go with a different solution
Openness/Closure: Every open source project has its own community dynamics
Losing sight of level of expertise for profitability and easy path to useage
Whether to become a product or service company - difficult to be both effectively or go from being one to the other; build partner relationship, focus, and say “no”
Lack of awareness about AWS Outposts admitting public Cloud is no longer a viable business model
Amazon relentlessly focuses on what its customers want and tries to keep promises about what it can and can’t do
Cloud Native: Not where you run, but how you run; confining variables
Self-fulfilling prophecy to under deliver when you make the bad decision to under source IT across the board
Cloud Native, DevOps, SRE: Buzzwords that equal one thing and work together
Dilemma of not building everything and buying some things, but you can’t buy everything; humans like to shop and go with the easiest option
Links:
Andrew Clay Shafer on Twitter
Andrew Clay Shafer on LinkedIn
Puppet
Re:invent
OpenStack
Eucalyptus
Docker
Redis
MongoDB
Confluent
Kubernetes
AWS Outposts
AWS Ground Station
AmazonBasics
Simon Wardley
M…
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Episode 40: Wave of Innovation Breaking Ahead of the Bow of the Ship that is Amazon
12 december 2018 · 44 min
You can't make money selling to developers! The bottleneck of getting business requirements and creating business value used to mean waiting for the next waterfall release. That’s not the case anymore in the venture community. There’s programmatic access to infrastructure and DevOps/agile developments that offer super-fast cycle times. Now, the bottleneck is about how fast your developers can move and how much they can get done. Lees meer
Today, we’re talking to Joseph Ruscio, general partner at Heavybit Industries, which is an accelerator for seed-stage companies and focuses on developer-first products. Tools and products that get you more leverage out of your developers are incredibly valuable.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
Measuring maturity of startups’ engineering teams by looking at SaaS list - what products they have in place and how many are using out-of-house vendors
Customers don’t care how curated or artisan a piece of your stack is, they only care that it works
Not all claims (scales infinitely or never fails) are true when it comes to products on the market, so people are skeptical
Heavybit focuses on helping businesses build a bottoms-up, grassroots community around its products and a disciplined inside/direct sales motion
Build vs. Buy: Whatever people try to do themselves is a costly, pale imitation of something they can buy
Advice for New Entrepreneurs: Never compete with AWS on hosting compute because it will obliterate and Amazon is great at plumbing, terrible at painting
AWS’s version of your product won't be as sophisticated; continually work on it to deliver a more seamless product and customer success experience
Measure downtime/outages in terms of dollars by using monitoring tools that deliver more holistic, integrated, comprehensive experience than CloudWatch
Starting a company is easier; even if you're the 800-pound gorilla in the category you created, keep innovating and building or Amazon’s coming after you
Azure, unlike …
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Episode 39: Give 10 Bad Talks All in a Row and Then Get Fired
5 december 2018 · 44 min
Do you like to hear yourself talk? Especially while on a stage and in front of a lot of people? How do you come up with ideas to talk about? What process do you use to build a conference talk or presentation? Lees meer
Today, we’re talking to Matty Stratton of PagerDuty. His job involves building conference talks and finding ways to continuously improve them. Public speaking can be intimidating, so he shares some tips and tricks that have worked for him.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
Avoid creating something brand new for every event
Don’t tell flattering stories about things that happened to you; may be uplifting, but doesn't resemble reality
Failure stories are fantastic because people relate to making terrible decisions
Everyone who gives a talk panics, gets nervous, and thinks they’re about a sentence away from stammering and falling off the stage; almost never happens
Audience wants you to succeed because they're there to learn; no one is hoping a presenter messes up
Preparation is key; could build a talk at the last minute, but it would be much better, if you prepared for it
Don’t intentionally try to think of something; have conversations with people and listen to other talks to develop anecdotes, stories, and cold opens
Humor can be tricky; what you think is funny, other people might not
Make things memorable; show good ideas by showing bad ideas - it’s the ‘don't do this, do this instead’ model
Submit early and often, but submit appropriately; if you are always submitting stuff that’s inappropriate for an event, your stuff starts to be ignored
Sometimes, you may want to avoid slides that auto advance; if you trip over yourself: Stop, repeat, back up, take questions, etc.
Try not to read from notes or slides; takes the life and engagement out of the talk
People can only do one thing at a time - listen or read
Practice: Record yourself every time you practice and watch it; focus on blocking and tackling
You have about 45 seconds to grab …
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Episode 38: Must be Willing to Defeat the JSON Heretics
30 november 2018 · 45 min
Do you understand how tabs work? How spaces work? Are you willing to defeat the JSON heretics? Most people understand the power of the serverless paradigm, but need help to put it into a useful form. That’s where Stackery comes in to treat YAML as an assembly language. After all, no one programs processors like they did in the '80s with raw assembly routines and no one programs with C. Everyone is using a higher-level scripted or other programming language. Lees meer
Today, we’re talking to Chase Douglas, co-founder and CTO of Stackery, which is serverless acceleration software where levels of abstraction empower you to move quickly. Stackery has an intricate binding model that gives you a visual representation - at a human logical level - of the infrastructure you defined in your application.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
Stackery builds infrastructures by using best practices with security applications
What's a VPC? Way to put resources into a Cloud account that aren’t accessible outside of that network; anything in that network can talk to each other
Lambda layers let developers create one Git layer that includes multiple functionality and put it in all functions for consistency and management
Git is an open-source amalgam of different programming languages that has grown and changed over time, but it has its own build system
Stackery created a PHP runtime functionality for Lambda; you don't want to run your own runtime - leave that up to a Cloud service provider for security reasons
Should you refactor existing Lambda functions to leverage layers? No, rebuild everything already built before re-architecting everything to use serverless
Many companies find serverless to be useful for their types of workloads; about 95% of workloads can effectively be engineered on a serverless foundation
Trough of Disillusionment or Gartner Hype Cycle: Stackery wants to re-engage and help people who have had challenges with serverless
Is DynamoDB considered serverl…
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Episode 37: Hiring in the Cloud “I assume CrowdStrike makes drones”
21 november 2018 · 35 min
What’s hiring in the world of Cloud like? What are companies looking for in possible employees? What kind of career trajectory should applicants display? Lees meer
Today, we’re talking to Don O’Neill, who has had an interesting career path and the archetype of who most companies want to hire. He’s been an independent contributor, platform leader, and Cloud consultant. Currently, Don is platform engineer manager at Articulate, an eLearning software solution for course authoring and eLearning development. He works with platform engineers to automate Blue Ocean pipelines with Docker, Terraform, and various Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies, such as Elastic Beanstalk.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
Don reached out to his network to ask people that he had a professional relationship with about who was hiring and what challenges they faced
Don’s “Therapy”: Go to meet-ups to talk about DevOps topics; serves as a “I’ve-got-to-get-my-hiney-out-of-the-house-and-get-some-social-time”
Don’s journey from being a “wee lad in the industry” to a senior member/leader and giving back as a way to recognize those who helped him along the way
Hiring Horror Stories: People going through borderline ridiculous levels of hiring games and terrible interview paradigms
Companies sometimes look for something too specific - exact match instead of fuzzy match; they never have time to train, but time to look for a perfect unicorn
Articulate’s Hiring Process: Day 1 - Slack interview; Day 2 - Technical pieces; and Day 3 - Pairing with others
Articulate looks for people enthusiastic about technology, able to learn, and with emotional intelligence; company values independence, autonomy, and respect
Companies that spend several hours to make a hiring decision tend to have less success with those they hire
Cloud Certificates/Certifications: Can be valuable for applicants with no real-world experience; they don’t indicate how they’re going to work or learn
Applicants need to demonstr…
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Episode 36: I'm Not Here to Correct Your English, Just Cloud Bills
14 november 2018 · 44 min
Do you enjoy watching sports? Wear your favorite team or player’s jersey? Are you a fan who has shopped at Fanatics on the Cloud? Lees meer
Today, we’re talking to Johnny Sheeley, director of Cloud engineering at Fanatics, which is a sports eCommerce business that manufactures and sells sports apparel. Fanatics runs Cloud engineering to provide a robust and reliable set of services by building and deploying applications on top of the Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) platform.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
If you compete with Amazon, be ready for it to come after you; some companies avoid its Cloud perspective or go multi-Cloud (paranoia-based movement)
Focus on your ability to make your business function smoothly
Transition, migration, and abstraction may be painful, but should not stop work; paying for Cloud-agnostic technology may not be worth it
Challenges of governing use of Cloud resources to prevent mistakes/problems related to Fanatics’ security and budget
Data collected focuses on what’s trending up or down to select an instance type that calculates costs; remain flexible and be aware of what you pay
Natural instinct is to blame people; mistakes are made, especially when a human factor is introduced to an automated system
Creating a mindset that focuses on feature and detail-oriented is challenging
Cottage industry of code bases running in Big Data and other expensive realms
As a product continues to evolve and grow, governance comes along for the ride and AWS bills are streamlined
Will serverless, Lambda, and RDS change how Amazon charges in the future?
State of scale of AWS and developing a more palatable method for releases because people can’t keep up with them and stop paying attention
Two-Pizza Team: Amazon’s management philosophy that any team that works on a service should be able to be fed with two pizzas
Such small teams work quickly and have the freedom to fail, but Amazon has a reliability for the longevity of its different servic…
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Episode 35: Metered Pricing: Everyone Hates That! Charge Based on Value
7 november 2018 · 33 min
Did you know that you can now run Lambda functions for 15 minutes, instead of dealing with 5-minute timeouts? Although customers will probably never need that much time, it helps dispel the belief that serverless isn’t useful for some use cases because of such short time limits. Lees meer
Today, we’re talking to Adam Johnson, co-founder and CEO of IOpipe. He understands that some people may misuse the increased timeframe to implement things terribly. But he believes the responsibility of a framework, platform, or technology should not be to hinder certain use cases to make sure developers are working within narrow constraints. Substantial guardrails can make developers shy away. With Lambda, they can do what they want, which is good and bad.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
Companies are using serverless as a foundation and for critical functions
Serverless can be painful in some areas, but gaps are going away
Investing in the Future: Companies doing lift-and-shift to AWS are looking at technology they should choose today that’s going to be prominent in 3 years
Serverless empowers new billing models and traces the flow of capital; companies can choose to make pricing more complicated or simplified
What value are you providing? Serverless can offer flexible pricing foundation
When something breaks, you need to be made aware of such problems; Amazon bill doesn’t change based on what IOpipe does, which is not true with others
Developers are the ones woken up and on call, so IOpipe focuses on providing them value and help; they are not left alone to figure out and fix problems
Serverless and event-driven applications offer a new type of instrumentation and observability to collect telemetry on every event
For serverless to go mainstream, AWS needs to up its observability level to gather data to answer questions
AWS, in the serverless space, needs to make significant progress on cold starts in other languages, and offer more visibility and easier deployment…
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Episode 34: Slack and the Safety Dance of Chaos Engineering
31 oktober 2018 · 33 min
In the early days, angry nerd corners on the Internet viewed Slack and some of its predecessors as, “Oh, it’s just IRC. Now, you pay someone for it.” Many fell into that trap of wondering about what value such systems offered.The big differentiator? Slack is built as a collaborative business tool. Lees meer
Today, we’re talking to Holly Allen, who helped make government software better while serving as the director of engineering at 18F. Now, she’s a senior engineering manager at Slack, a collaborative chat program where you can do most of your work through a rich platform of integrations. Holly enjoys taking a weird set of skills that make a computer do things and convincing people who know how to make computers do things do things.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
Safety engineering brings chaos and resilience engineering, incident management, and post-mortem processes together for resiliency and reliability
Slack strives to move really fast while being in complete control
Slack is primarily on AWS, but is working on a multi-Cloud strategy because if AWS is down, Slack still needs to work
Slack has a close relationship with AWS and is a collaborative company; it has immediate access to AWS staff anytime there’s a problem
Slack uses Terraform and Chef and working to determine if its production workflows in Kubernetes would be worthwhile
Disasterpiece Theater: Real scenario that might happen and surmise what will happen; don’t cause production issues, but teach Slack employees
Slack hires collaborative, empathetic people to create a collaborative environment where everyone works together toward a goal
Slack was firmly in a centralized operations model, but is transforming toward development teams to increase responsibility and service ownership
Slack doesn’t encourage remote work because it’s not in a position to put in that investment; day-to-day work happens in hallways and between desks
Slack sees itself as an enterprise software company; an enterpr…
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Episode 33: The Worst Manager I Ever Had Spoke Only In Metaphor
24 oktober 2018 · 30 min
If you’ve been doing DevOps for the past 10-20 years, things have really changed in the industry. There’s no longer large pools of help desk support. People aren’t climbing around the data center and learning how to punch down cables and rack servers to gradually work their way up. Now, entry level DevOps jobs require about five years of experience. So, that’s where internships play a major role. But how can an internship program be set up for success? Where is the next generation of SREs or DevOps professionals coming from? Where do we find them? Lees meer
Today, we’re talking to Fatema Boxwala, who has been an intern at Rackspace, Yelp, and Facebook. She’s a computer science student at the University of Waterloo in Canada, where she’s involved with the Women in Computer Science Committee and Computer Science Club. Occasionally, she teaches people about Python, Git, and systems administration.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
Mentors made Fatema’s intern experience positive for her; made site reliability and operations something she wanted to do
Academic paths don’t tend to focus on such fields as SRE, and interns tend to come exclusively from specific schools
Fatema’s school requires five internships to graduate and receive a degree; upper-year students are already very qualified professional software engineers
Companies don’t have time to train and want to find someone with an exact skill set; instead of hiring someone, they spend months with an unfilled position
Continuity Problem: You can’t train someone to be a systems administrator, if you aren’t willing to give them certain privileges due to inexperience
Use a low-stakes environment to train, where mistakes can be made; most systems aren’t on a critical path - don’t keep people away from contributing
If you have never broke production, that means either you’re lying or you’ve been in an environment that didn’t trust you to touch things that mattered
Internship should mimic the kind of work that e…
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Episode 32: Lambda School: A New Approach to “Hire Ed”
17 oktober 2018 · 26 min
Are you interested in computer science? How would you like to go to school for free and learn what you need to in just a few months? Then, check out Lambda School! Lees meer
Today, we’re talking to Ben Nelson, co-founder and CTO of Lambda School, which is a 30-week online immersive computer science academy. Lambda School has more than 500 students and takes a share of future earnings instead of traditional debt. So, it's free until students get a job.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
Bootcamps were created to address engineering shortages and quickly move people into technical careers
Lambda is not explicitly a bootcamp; its 30-week program gives students more instructions and more time spent on developing a portfolio
Lambda also makes time to cover computer science fundamentals; teaches C, Python, Django, and relational database - not just JavaScript
Employers appreciate the school’s in-depth and advanced approach, which results in repeat hires
Lambda avoids the typical reputation of traditional for-profit educational institutions by being mission-driven and knowing its investors want ROI
Lambda aligns its incentives with those of students; an income share agreement means the school doesn’t make money, unless students are successful
Lambda’s 7-month program is less of a risk for someone later in their career; some don't have capital to support their family while going to school for 4 years
Lambda incentivizes healthy financial habits; after two years of repayment, students can put that money into retirement, savings, and investments
5 Tracks Now Offered by Lambda: iOS development, UX, Full Stack Web development, data science, and Android development
Mastery Based Progression System: When you're learning something sequentially, where knowledge builds, you don't move on until you’ve mastered it
Lambda’s acceptance rate is around 5% and based on people who can keep up
Lambda works with different partner companies to help them find qualified graduates -…