Screaming in the Cloud

About SheeriAfter almost 2 decades as a database administrator and award-winning thought leader, Sheeri Cabral pivoted to technical product management. Her super power of “new customer” empathy informs her presentations and explanations. Sheeri has developed unique insights into working together and planning, having survived numerous reorganizations, “best practices”, and efficiency models. Her experience is the result of having worked at everything from scrappy startups such as Guardium – later bought by IBM – to influential tech companies like Mozilla and MongoDB, to large established organizations like Salesforce.Links Referenced:Collibra: https://www.collibra.comWildAid GitHub: https://github.com/wildaidTwitter: https://twitter.com/sheeriPersonal Blog: https://sheeri.org

About ChrisChris is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at incident.io, where they're building incident management products that people actually want to use. A software engineer by trade, Chris is no stranger to gnarly incidents, having participated (and caused!) them at everything from early stage startups through to enormous IT organizations.Links Referenced:incident.io: https://incident.ioPractical Guide to Incident Management: https://incident.io/guide/

About MaishMaish Saidel-Keesing is a Senior Enterprise Developer Advocate @AWS working on containers and has been working in IT for the past 20 years and with a stronger focus on cloud and automation for the past 7.He has extensive experience with AWS Cloud technologies, DevOps and Agile practices and implementations, containers, Kubernetes, virtualization, and a number of fun things he has done along the wayHe is constantly trying to bridge the gap between Developers and Operators to allow all of us provide a better service for our customers (and not wake up from pages in the middle of the night). He is an avid practitioner of dissolving silos - educating Ops how to code and explaining to Devs what the hell is OperationsLinks Referenced:@maishsk: https://twitter.com/maishskduckbillgroup.com: https://duckbillgroup.com

About ChrisChris is a robotics engineer turned cloud security practitioner. From building origami robots for NASA, to neuroscience wearables, to enterprise software consulting, he is a passionate builder at heart. Chris is a cofounder of Common Fate, a company with a mission to make cloud access simple and secure.Links:Common Fate: https://commonfate.io/Granted: https://granted.devTwitter: https://twitter.com/chr_norm

Full Description / Show NotesCorey and Linda talk about Tiktok and the online developer community (1:18)Linda talks about what prompted her to want to work at AWS (5:29)Linda discusses navigating the change from just being part of the developer community to being an employee of AWS (10:37)Linda talks about moving AWS more in the direction of short form content, and Corey and Linda talk about the Tiktok algorithm (15:56)Linda talks about the potential struggle of going from short form to long form content (25:21)About LindaLinda Vivah is a Site Reliability Engineer for a major media organization in NYC, a tech content creator, an AWS community builder member, a part-time wedding singer, and the founder of a STEM jewelry shop called Coding Crystals. At the time of this recording she was about to join AWS in her current position as a Developer Advocate.Linda had an untraditional journey into tech. She was a Philosophy major in college and began her career in journalism. In 2015, she quit her tv job to attend The Flatiron School, a full stack web development immersive program in NYC. She worked as a full-stack developer building web applications for 5 years before shifting into SRE to work on the cloud end internally.Throughout the years, she’s created tech content on platforms like TikTok & Instagram and believes that sometimes the best way to learn is to teach.Links Referenced:lindavivah.com: https://lindavivah.com

Full Description / Show NotesSteren and Corey talk about how Google Cloud Run got its name (00:49)Corey talks about his experiences using Google Cloud (2:42)Corey and Steren discuss Google Cloud’s cloud run custom domains (10:01)Steren talks about Cloud Run’s high developer satisfaction and scalability (15:54)Corey and Steren talk about Cloud Run releases at Google I/O (23:21)Steren discusses the majority of developer and customer interest in Google’s cloud product (25:33)Steren talks about his 20% projects around sustainability (29:00)About SterenSteren is a Senior Product Manager at Google Cloud. He is part of the serverless team, leading Cloud Run. He is also working on sustainability, leading the Google Cloud Carbon Footprint product.Steren is an engineer from École Centrale (France). Prior to joining Google, he was CTO of a startup building connected objects and multi device solutions.Links Referenced:Google Cloud Run: https://cloud.runsheets-url-shortener: https://github.com/ahmetb/sheets-url-shortenersnark.cloud/run: https://snark.cloud/runTwitter: https://twitter.com/steren

Full Description / Show NotesGafnit explains how she found a vulnerability in RDS, an Amazon database service (1:40)Gafnit and Corey discuss the concept of not being able to win in cloud security (7:20)Gafnit talks about transparency around security breaches (11:02)Corey and Gafnit discuss effectively communicating with customers about security (13:00)Gafnit answers the question “Did you come at the RDS vulnerability exploration from a perspective of being deeper on the Postgres side or deeper on the AWS side? (18:10)Corey and Gafnit talk about the risk of taking a pre-existing open source solution and offering it as a managed service (19:07)Security measures in cloud-native approaches versus cloud-hosted (22:41)Gafnit and Corey discuss the security community (25:04)About GafnitGafnit Amiga is the Director of Security Research at Lightspin. Gafnit has 7 years of experience in Application Security and Cloud Security Research. Gafnit leads the Security Research Group at Lightspin, focused on developing new methods to conduct research for new cloud native services and Kubernetes. Previously, Gafnit was a lead product security engineer at Salesforce focused on their core platform and a security researcher at GE Digital. Gafnit holds a Bs.c in Computer Science from IDC Herzliya and a student for Ms.c in Data Science.Links Referenced:Lightspin: https://www.lightspin.io/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gafnitavLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gafnit-amiga-b1357b125/

Full Description / Show NotesMarie talks about Oki Doki’s primary product, Notion Mastery (2:38)Corey and Marie talk ADHD diagnosis and how it has impacted their lives and work (4:26)Marie and Corey discuss techniques they’ve developed for coping with ADHD (11:22)Corey and Marie talk about workarounds for people with ADHD who want to adopt something like Notion (16:13) Marie discusses the importance of being excited about the tools you’re employing (18:54)Corey and Marie talk about finding tools that work for you (26:43)Marie and Corey discuss the unique challenge of teaching skills versus dumping knowledge (30:35)About Marie PoulinMarie teaches business owners to level up their digital systems, workflow, and knowledge management processes using Notion.She’s the co-founder of Oki Doki and creator of Notion Mastery, an online program and community that helps creators, entrepreneurs and small teams tame their work + life chaos by building life and business management systems with Notion.Diagnosed with ADHD at age 37, Marie is especially passionate about helping folks customize their workflows and workspaces to meet their unique needs and preferences.She believes that Notion is especially powerful for neurodivergent folks who have long struggled to adhere to traditional or rigid project management processes, and may need a little extra customization and flexibility.When she's not tinkering in Notion or doing live trainings, you can find her in the garden, playing video games, or cooking up some delicious vegetarian tacos.Links Referenced:Oki Doki: https://weareokidoki.com/Personal website: https://mariepoulin.comNotion Mastery: https://notionmastery.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/mariepoulin

Full Description / Show NotesGuillermo talks about how he came to work at OCI and what it was like helping to pioneer Oracle’s cloud product (1:40)Corey and Guillermo discuss the challenges and realities of multi-cloud (6:00)Corey asks about OCI’s dedicated region approach (8:27)Guillermo discusses the problem of awareness (12:40)Corey and Guillermo talk cloud providers and cloud migration (14:40)Guillermo shares about how OCI’s cost and customer service is unique among cloud providers (16:56)Corey and Guillermo talk about IoT services and 5G (23:58)About Guillermo RuizGuillermo Ruiz gets into trouble more often than he would like. During his career Guillermo has seen many horror stories while building data centers worldwide. In 2007 he dreamed with space-based internet and direct routing between satellites, but he could only reach “the Cloud”. And there he is, helping customer build their business in someone else servers since 2011.Beware of his sense of humor...If you ever see him in a tech event, run, he will get you in problems.Links:Twitter: https://twitter.com/IaaSgeek, https://twitter.com/OracleStartupLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gruizesteban/

About swyxswyx has worked on React and serverless JavaScript at Two Sigma, Netlify and AWS, and now serves as Head of Developer Experience at Airbyte. He has started and run communities for hundreds of thousands of developers, like Svelte Society, /r/reactjs, and the React TypeScript Cheatsheet. His nontechnical writing was recently published in the Coding Career Handbook for Junior to Senior developers.Links Referenced:“Learning Gears” blog post: https://www.swyx.io/learning-gearsThe Coding Career Handbook: https://learninpublic.orgPersonal Website: https://swyx.ioTwitter: https://twitter.com/swyx

About AlyssaAlyssa Miller, Business Information Security Officer (BISO) for S&P Global, is the global executive leader for cyber security across the Ratings division, connecting corporate security objectives to business initiatives. She blends a unique mix of technical expertise and executive presence to bridge the gap that can often form between security practitioners and business leaders. Her goal is to change how security professionals of all levels work with our non-security partners throughout the business.A life-long hacker, Alyssa has a passion for technology and security. She bought her first computer herself at age 12 and quickly learned techniques for hacking modem communications and software. Her serendipitous career journey began as a software developer which enabled her to pivot into security roles. Beginning as a penetration tester, her last 16 years have seen her grow as a security leader with experience across a variety of organizations. She regularly advocates for improved security practices and shares her research with business leaders and industry audiences through her international public speaking engagements, online content, and other media appearances.Links Referenced:Cybersecurity Career Guide: https://alyssa.link/bookA-L-Y-S-S-A dot link—L-I-N-K slash book: https://alyssa.link/bookTwitter: https://twitter.com/AlyssaM_InfoSecalyssasec.com: https://alyssasec.com

About SharoneI'm Sharone Zitzman, a marketing technologist and open source community builder, who likes to work with engineering teams that are building products that developers love. Having built both the DevOps Israel and Cloud Native Israel communities from the ground up, today I spend my time finding the places where technology and people intersect and ensuring that this is an excellent experience. You can find my talks, articles, and employment experience at rtfmplease.dev. Find me on Twitter or Github as @shar1z.Links Referenced:Personal Twitter: https://twitter.com/shar1zWebsite: https://rtfmplease.devLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonez/@TLVCommunity: https://twitter.com/TLVcommunity@DevOpsDaysTLV: https://twitter.com/devopsdaystlv

About RafalRafal is Serverless Engineer at Stedi by day, and Dynobase founder by night - a modern DynamoDB UI client. When he is not coding or answering support tickets, he loves climbing and tasting whiskey (not simultaneously).Links Referenced:Company Website: https://dynobase.dev

About CarlaCarla Stickler is a professional multi-hyphenate advocating for the inclusion of artists in STEM. Currently, she works as a software engineer at G2 in Chicago. She loves chatting with folks interested in shifting gears from the arts to programming and especially hopes to get more women into the field. Carla spent over 10 years performing in Broadway musicals, most notably, “Wicked,” “Mamma Mia!” and “The Sound of Music.” She recently made headlines for stepping back into the role of Elphaba on Broadway for a limited time to help out during the covid surge after not having performed the role for 7 years. Carla is passionate about reframing the narrative of the “starving artist” and states, “When we choose to walk away from a full-time pursuit of the arts, it does not make us failed artists. The possibilities for what we can do and who we can be are unlimited.”Links Referenced:G2: https://www.g2.com/Personal website: https://carlastickler.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/sticklercarla/TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by Honeycomb. When production is running slow, it’s hard to know where problems originate. Is it your application code, users, or the underlying systems? I’ve got five bucks on DNS, personally. Why scroll through endless dashboards while dealing with alert floods, going from tool to tool to tool that you employ, guessing at which puzzle pieces matter? Context switching and tool sprawl are slowly killing both your team and your business. You should care more about one of those than the other; which one is up to you. Drop the separate pillars and enter a world of getting one unified understanding of the one thing driving your business: production. With Honeycomb, you guess less and know more. Try it for free at honeycomb.io/screaminginthecloud. Observability: it’s more than just hipster monitoring.Corey: What if there were a single place to get an inventory of what you're running in the cloud that wasn't "the monthly bill?" Further, what if there were a way to compare that inventory to what you were already managing via Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation, but then automatically add the missing unmanaged or drifted parts to it? And what if there were a policy engine to immediately flag and remediate a wide variety of misconfigurations? Well, stop dreaming and start doing; visit snark.cloud/firefly to learn more.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I’m Corey Quinn, there seems to be a trope in our industry that the real engineers all follow what more or less looks like the exact same pattern, where it’s you wind up playing around with computers as a small child and then you wind up going to any college you want—as long as it’s Stanford—and getting a degree in anything under the sun—as long as it’s computer science—and then all of your next jobs are based upon how well you can re-implement algorithms on the whiteboard. A lot of us didn’t go through that path. We wound up finding our own ways to tech. My guest today has one of the more remarkable stories that I’ve come across. Carla Stickler is a software engineer at G2. Carla, thank you for agreeing to suffer my slings and arrows today. It’s appreciated.Carla: Thanks so much for having me, Corey.Corey: So, before you entered tech—I believe this is your first job as an engineer and as of the time we’re recording this, it’s been just shy of a year that you’ve done in the role. What were you doing before now?Carla: Oh, boy, Corey. What was I doing? I definitely was not doing software engineering. I was a Broadway actress. So, I spent about 15 years in New York doing musical theater, touring around the country and Asia in big Broadway shows. And that was pretty much all I did.I guess, I also was a teacher. I was a voice teacher and I taught voice lessons, and I had a studio and I taught it a couple of faculties in New York. But I was one hundred percent ride-or-die, like, all the way to the end musical theater or bust, from a very, very early age. So, it’s been kind of a crazy time changing careers. [laugh].Corey: What inspired that? I mean, it doesn’t seem like it’s a common pattern of someone who had an established career as a Broadway actress to wake up one day and say, “You know what I don’t like anymore. That’s right being on stage, doing the thing that I spent 15 years doing. You know what I want to do instead? That’s right, be mad at computers all the time and angry because some of the stuff is freaking maddening.” What was the catalyst that—Carla: Yeah, sounds crazy. [laugh].Corey: —inspired you to move?Carla: It sounds crazy. It was

About SimonFounder and CEO of SnapShooter a backup company Links Referenced:SnapShooter.com: https://SnapShooter.comMrSimonBennett: https://twitter.com/MrSimonBennett

About WesleyWesley Faulkner is a first-generation American, public speaker, and podcaster. He is a founding member of the government transparency group Open Austin and a staunch supporter of racial justice, workplace equity, and neurodiversity. His professional experience spans technology from AMD, Atlassian, Dell, IBM, and MongoDB. Wesley currently works as a Developer Advocate, and in addition, co-hosts the developer relations focused podcast Community Pulse and serves on the board for SXSW.Links Referenced:Twitter: https://twitter.com/wesley83Polywork: https://polywork.com/wesley83Personal Website: https://www.wesleyfaulkner.com/

About JamesJames has been part of AWS for over 15 years. During that time he's led software engineering for Amazon EC2 and more recently leads the AWS Commerce Platform group that runs some of the largest systems in the world, handling volumes of data and request rates that would make your eyes water. And AWS customers trust us to be right all the time so there's no room for error.Links Referenced:Email: [email protected]

About PriyankaPriyanka Vergadia is currently a Staff Developer Advocate at Google Cloud where she works with enterprises to build and architect their cloud platforms. She enjoys building engaging technical content and continuously experiments with new ways to tell stories and solve business problems using Google Cloud tools. You can check out some of the stories that she has created for the developer community on the Google Cloud Platform Youtube channel. These include "Deconstructing Chatbots", "Get Cooking in Cloud", "Pub/Sub Made Easy" and more. ..Links Referenced:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pvergadia/Twitter: https://twitter.com/pvergadiaPriyanka's book: https://www.amazon.com/Visualizing-Google-Cloud-Illustrated-References/dp/1119816327

About AmyAmy Tobey has worked in tech for more than 20 years at companies of every size, working with everything from kernel code to user interfaces. These days she spends her time building an innovative Site Reliability Engineering program at Equinix, where she is a principal engineer. When she's not working, she can be found with her nose in a book, watching anime with her son, making noise with electronics, or doing yoga poses in the sun.Links Referenced:Equinix Metal: https://metal.equinix.comPersonal Twitter: https://twitter.com/MissAmyTobeyPersonal Blog: https://tobert.github.io/

About TomaszTomasz is a Frontend Engineer at Stedi, Co-Founder/Head of React at Cloudash, egghead.io instructor with over 200 lessons published, a tech speaker, an AWS Community Hero and a lifelong learner.Links Referenced:Cloudash: https://cloudash.dev/Twitter: https://twitter.com/tlakomy

About MichaelMichael is the creator of IT automation platforms Cobbler and Ansible, the latter allegedly used by ~60% of the Fortune 500, and at one time one of the top 10 contributed to projects on GitHub.Links Referenced:Speaking Tech: https://michaeldehaan.substack.com/michaeldehaan.net: https://michaeldehaan.netTwitter: https://twitter.com/laserllama

About Averywvdial, bup, sshuttle, netselect, popularity-contest, redo, gfblip, GFiber, and now @Tailscale doing WireGuard mesh. Top search result for "epic treatise."Links Referenced:Webpage: https://tailscale.comTailscale Twitter: https://twitter.com/tailscalePersonal Twitter: https://twitter.com/apenwarr

About YoavYoav is a security veteran recognized on Microsoft Security Response Center’s Most Valuable Research List (BlackHat 2019). Prior to joining Orca Security, he was a Unit 8200 researcher and team leader, a chief architect at Hyperwise Security, and a security architect at Check Point Software Technologies. Yoav enjoys hunting for Linux and Windows vulnerabilities in his spare time.Links Referenced:Orca Security: https://orca.securityTwitter: https://twitter.com/yoavalon

About KateKate Holterhoff, an industry analyst with RedMonk, has a background in frontend engineering, academic research, and technical communication. Kate comes to RedMonk from the digital marketing sector and brings with her expertise in frontend engineering, QA, accessibility, and scrum best practices.Before pursuing a career in the tech industry Kate taught writing and communication courses at several East Coast universities. She earned a PhD from Carnegie Mellon in 2016 and was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship (2016-2018) at Georgia Tech, where she is currently an affiliated researcher.Links:RedMonk: https://redmonk.com/Visual Haggard: https://visualhaggard.orgTwitter: https://twitter.com/kateholterhoff

About VenkatVenkat Venkataramani is CEO and co-founder of Rockset. In his role, Venkat helps organizations build, grow and compete with data by making real-time analytics accessible to developers and data teams everywhere. Prior to founding Rockset in 2016, he was an Engineering Director for the Facebook infrastructure team that managed online data services for 1.5 billion users. These systems scaled 1000x during Venkat's eight years at Facebook, serving five billion queries per second at single-digit millisecond latency and five 9's of reliability. Venkat and his team also created and contributed to many noted data technologies and open-source projects, including Facebook's TAO distributed data store, RocksDB, Memcached, MySQL, MongoRocks, and others. Prior to Facebook, Venkat worked on tools to make the Oracle database easier to manage. He has a master’s in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and bachelor’s in computer science from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli.Links Referenced:Company website: https://rockset.comCompany blog: https://rockset.com/blog

About ChrisChris Harris is Vice President, Global Field Engineering at Couchbase, a provider of a leading modern database for enterprise applications that 30% of the Fortune 100 depend on. With almost 20 years of technical field and professional services experience at early-stage, open source and growth technology companies, Chris held leadership roles at Cloudera, Hortonworks, MongoDB and others before joining Couchbase.Links Referenced:couchbase.com: https://couchbase.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-harris-5451953/Twitter: https://twitter.com/cj_harris5

About TomTom enjoys being a bridge between people and technology. When he's not thinking about ways to make enterprise demos less boring, Tom enjoys spending time with his wife and dogs, reading, and gaming with friends.Links Referenced:LaunchDarkly: https://launchdarkly.comHeidi Waterhouse Twitter: https://twitter.com/wiredferret

About CaseyCasey spends his days leveraging AWS to help organizations improve the speed at which they deliver software. With a background in software development, he has spent the past 20 years architecting, building, and supporting software systems for organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises.Links Referenced:“17 Ways to Run Containers in AWS”: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-17-ways-to-run-containers-on-aws/“17 More Ways to Run Containers on AWS”: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/17-more-ways-to-run-containers-on-aws/kubernetestheeasyway.com: https://kubernetestheeasyway.comsnark.cloud/quinntainers: https://snark.cloud/quinntainersECS Chargeback: https://github.com/gaggle-net/ecs-chargeback twitter.com/nektos: https://twitter.com/nektos

About ScottCloud security historian.Developed flaws.cloud, CloudMapper, and Parliament.Founding team for fwd:cloudsecLinks:Block: https://block.xyz/Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xdabbad00

About MollyMolly White is a software engineer and team lead. She's also a longtime Wikipedia editor and advocate for free and open knowledge, and has more recently become an outspoken critic of cryptocurrencies and web3 more broadly.Links:web3isgoinggreat.com: https://web3isgoinggreat.comlasttweetinaws.com: https://lasttweetinaws.commollywhite.net: https://mollywhite.net@molly0xFFF: https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF@web3isgreat: https://twitter.com/web3isgreatponzl: http://ponzl.com

About JohnnyJohnny was born in Cleveland, OH and graduated from the University of Toledo with a Bachelor's in Computer Science Engineering. He began his career as a software engineer focused on embedded device protocols and systems engineering. Eventually he realized that Program Management worked better with the grain of his brain, so he took his career in that direction.In 2019, he was hired by Google Cloud to serve as a Communications Lead on their incident management teams. Most recently, he joined Waymo in November 2021 as a Technical Program Manager, acting as an anti-entropy agent for the self-driving car company's offboard infrastructure teams.Outside his day job, Johnny enjoys mountain biking, playing piano and trumpet, personal finance, coaching, and studying complex systems. He currently lives in Sunnyvale, CA with his wife Emily, and is expecting their first child in April 2022! Links:Original Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1436129343399346184Personal website: https://jmpod.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmpodTwitter: https://twitter.com/gratitudeisfree/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gratitudeisfree/

About “Matty”Matt Stratton is a Staff Developer Advocate at Pulumi, founder and co-host of the popular Arrested DevOps podcast, and the global chair of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.Matt has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and cloud engineering focused events worldwide. Demonstrating his keen insight into the changing landscape of technology, he recently changed his license plate from DEVOPS to KUBECTL.He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Diet Coke. Matt is the keeper of the Thought Leaderboard for the DevOps Party Games online game show and you can find him on Twitter at @mattstratton.Links ReferencedPulumi: https://www.pulumi.com/Arrested DevOps: https://www.arresteddevops.com/8bits.tv: https://8bits.tvTwitter: https://twitter.com/mattstrattonLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattstratton/speaking.mattstratton.com: https://speaking.mattstratton.comtwitch.tv/Pulumi: https://twitch.tv/Pulumi8bit.tv: https://8bit.tvduckbillgroup.com: https://duckbillgroup.com

About JoeJoe Onisick is a polarizing technologist with nearly 25 years’ experience architecting, building, operating complex IT systems and advising customers on the same. Onisick’s passion is marrying technology to a customer’s real-time business challenges and leading them through the entirety of the adoption curve. Onisick is a Principal and co-founder of Transformation Continuum (transformationcontinuum.com), and founder of Define the Cloud (definethecloud.net). Links:transformation CONTINUUM: https://transformationcontinuum.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeOnisick

About AshleighAshleigh Early is a passionate advocate for sales people and through her consulting, coaching, and The Other Side of Sales, she is devoted to making B2B sales culture more inclusive so anyone can thrive. Over the past ten years Ashleigh has led, built, re-built, and consulted for 2 unicorns, 3 acquisitions, 1 abject failure and every step in between. She is also the Head of Sales at the Duckbill Group! You can find Ashleigh on Twitter @AshleighatWork and more about the Other Side of Sales at Othersideofsales.comLinks:Twitter: https://twitter.com/ashleighatworkLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleighearly

About TimTimothy William Bray is a Canadian software developer, environmentalist, political activist and one of the co-authors of the original XML specification. He worked for Amazon Web Services from December 2014 until May 2020 when he quit due to concerns over the terminating of whistleblowers. Previously he has been employed by Google, Sun Microsystemsand Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Bray has also founded or co-founded several start-ups such as Antarctica Systems.Links Referenced:Textuality Services: https://www.textuality.com/laugh]. So, the impetus for having this conversation is, you had a [blog post: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/01/30/Cloud-Lock-In@timbray: https://twitter.com/timbraytbray.org: https://tbray.orgduckbillgroup.com: https://duckbillgroup.com

About PeterPeter's spent more than a decade building scalable and robust systems at startups across adtech and edtech. At Remind, where he's VP of Technology, Peter pushes for building a sustainable tech company with mature software engineering. He lives in Southern California and enjoys spending time at the beach with his family.Links:Redis: https://redis.com/Remind: https://www.remind.com/Remind Engineering Blog: https://engineering.remind.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hamiltopEmail: [email protected]

About PhilipPhilip Griffiths is VP Global Business Development and regularly speaks at events from DevOps to IoT to Cyber Security. Prior to this, he worked for Atos IT Services in various roles working with C-suit executives to realise their digital transformation. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and two daughters.Links:NetFoundry: https://netfoundry.io/Blog article: https://netfoundry.io/demystifying-the-magic-of-zero-trust-with-my-daughter-and-opensource/netfoundry.io/screaminginthecloud: https://netfoundry.io/screaminginthecloud

About NipunNipun Agarwal is a Senior Vice President, MySQL HeatWave and Advanced Development, Oracle. His interests include distributed data processing, machine learning, cloud technologies and security. Nipun was part of the Oracle Database team where he introduced a number of new features. He has been awarded over 170 patents.Links:Oracle: https://www.oracle.com

About RickI lead the developer relations team for strategic accounts at MongoDB. My responsibilities include defining technical standards for the global strategic accounts team and consulting with the largest customers and opportunities for the business. My role spans technology sectors and as part of my engagements I routinely provide guidance on industry best practices, technology transformation, distributed systems implementation, cloud migration, and more. I led the architecture and design effort at Amazon for migrating thousands of relational workloads from RDBMS to NoSQL and built the center of excellence team responsible for defining the best practices and design patterns used today by thousands of Amazon internal service teams and AWS customers. I currently operate as the technical leader for our global strategic account teams to build the market for MongoDB technology by facilitating center of excellence capabilities within our customer organizations through training, evangelism, and direct design consultation activities.30+ years of software and IT expertise.9 patents in Cloud Virtualization, Complex Event Processing, Root Cause Analysis, Microprocessor Architecture, and NoSQL Database technology.Links:MongoDB: https://www.mongodb.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/houlihan_rick

About RachelRachel leads product and technical marketing for Chronosphere. Previously, Rachel wore lots of marketing hats at CloudHealth (acquired by VMware), and before that, she led product marketing for cloud-integrated storage at NetApp. She also spent many years as an analyst at Forrester Research. Outside of work, Rachel tries to keep up with her young son and hyper-active dog, and when she has time, enjoys crafting and eating out at local restaurants in Boston where she’s based.Links:Chronosphere: https://chronosphere.ioTwitter: https://twitter.com/RachelDinesEmail: [email protected]

About ClintClint 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, and security operations.Links:Cribl: https://cribl.io/Cribl.io: https://cribl.ioDocs.cribl.io: https://docs.cribl.ioSandbox.cribl.io: https://sandbox.cribl.io

About AlexAlex holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from UC San Diego, and has spent over a decade building high-performance, robust data management and processing systems. As an early member of a couple fast-growing startups, he’s had the opportunity to wear a lot of different hats, serving at various times as an individual contributor, tech lead, manager, and executive. Prior to joining the Duckbill Group, Alex spent a few years as a freelance data engineering consultant, helping his clients build, manage and maintain their data infrastructure. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.Links:Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexras/Personal page: https://alexras.infoOld Consulting website with blog: https://bitsondisk.com

About AidanAidan is an AWS enthusiast, due in no small part to sharing initials with the cloud. He's been writing software for over 20 years and getting paid to do it for the last 10. He's still not sure what he wants to be when he grows up.Links:Stedi: https://www.stedi.com/GitHub: https://github.com/aidansteeleBlog posts: https://awsteele.com/Ipv6-ghost-ship: https://github.com/aidansteele/ipv6-ghost-shipTwitter: https://twitter.com/__steele

About DavidDavid is an AWS expert who likes to design and build scalable solutions that are fully automated and take care of themselves. Now he is focusing on selling his own products on the AWS Marketplace.Links:0x4447: https://0x4447.com/Products page: https://products.0x4447.com

About SethSeth Vargo is an engineer at Google. Previously he worked at HashiCorp, Chef Software, CustomInk, and some Pittsburgh-based startups. He is the author of Learning Chef and is passionate about reducing inequality in technology. When he is not writing, working on open source, teaching, or speaking at conferences, Seth advises non-profits.Links:Twitter: https://twitter.com/sethvargo

About BrookeBrooke is the Head of Enablement - AI/ML and Data at Blackbook.ai, an Australian based consulting firm and AWS Partner. Brooke has degrees in Mathematics and Data Engineering and they specialise in developing technically robust solutions that help “non-data people” harness the power of AI for their industry, and communicate this effectively.Outside of their 'day job', Brooke speaks at Data, AI, Software Engineering, UX and Business conferences and events to Australian and international audiences, and has guest lectured at the University of Queensland Business School and Griffith University. Brooke is proudly a volunteer member of the Queensland National Science Week Committee, and is always on the lookout for new ways to promote STEM pathways to young people, especially young women and members of the LGBTIQA+ community from regional Australia.Links:Blackbook: https://blackbook.ai/Twitter: https://twitter.com/brooke_jamiesonTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brookebytesLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brookejamieson/

About LizLiz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer with cloud native networking and security specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium eBPF-based networking project. She is chair of the CNCF's Technical Oversight Committee, and was Co-Chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in 2018. She is also the author of Container Security, published by O'Reilly.She has a wealth of software development, team, and product management experience from working on network protocols and distributed systems, and in digital technology sectors such as VOD, music, and VoIP. When not writing code, or talking about it, Liz loves riding bikes in places with better weather than her native London, and competing in virtual races on Zwift.Links:Isovalent: https://isovalent.com/Container Security: https://www.amazon.com/Container-Security-Fundamental-Containerized-Applications/dp/1492056707/Twitter: https://twitter.com/lizriceGitHub: https://github.com/lizriceCilium and eBPF Slack: http://slack.cilium.io/CNCF Slack: https://cloud-native.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-11yzivnzq-hs12vUAYFZmnqE3r7ILz9A

About EmilyEmily is an Android engineer by day, but makes tech jokes and satires videos by night. She lives in San Francisco with two ridiculously fluffy dogs.Links:Uber: https://eng.uber.com/Blog: https://www.emilykager.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/EmilyKagerTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@shmemmmy

About KellyKellyAnn Fitzpatrick is a Senior Industry Analyst at RedMonk, the developer-focused industry analyst firm. Having previously worked as a QA analyst, test & release manager, and tech writer, she has experience with containers, CI/CD, testing frameworks, documentation, and training. She has also taught technical communication to computer science majors at the Georgia Institute of Technology as a Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow.Holding a Ph.D. in English from the University at Albany and a B.A. in English and Medieval Studies from the University of Notre Dame, KellyAnn’s side projects include teaching, speaking, and writing about medievalism (the ways that post-medieval societies reimagine or appropriate the Middle Ages), and running to/from donut shops.Links:RedMonk: https://redmonk.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/drkellyannfitz

About AnnaAnna has nearly ten years of experience researching and advising organizations on cloud adoption with a focus on security best practices. As a Gartner Analyst, Anna spent six years helping more than 500 enterprises with vulnerability management, security monitoring, and DevSecOps initiatives. Anna's research and talks have been used to transform organizations' IT strategies and her research agenda helped to shape markets. Anna is the Director of Thought Leadership at Sysdig, using her deep understanding of the security industry to help IT professionals succeed in their cloud-native journey.Anna holds a PhD in Materials Engineering from the University of Michigan, where she developed computational methods to study solar cells and rechargeable batteries.How do I adapt my security practices for the cloud-native world?How do I select and deploy appropriate tools and processes to address business needs?How do I make sense of new technology trends like threat deception, machine learning, and containers?Links:Sysdig: https://sysdig.com/“2022 Cloud-Native Security and Usage Report”: https://sysdig.com/2022-cloud-native-security-and-usage-report/Twitter: https://twitter.com/aabelakLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aabelak/Email: [email protected]