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Raising Awareness on Cloud-Native Threats with Michael Clark Oct 13, 2022

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About Michael

Michael is the Director of Threat Research at Sysdig, managing a team of experts tasked with discovering and defending against novel security threats. Michael has more than 20 years of industry experience in many different roles, including incident response, threat intelligence, offensive security research, and software development at companies like Rapid7, ThreatQuotient, and Mantech. Prior to joining Sysdig, Michael worked as a Gartner analyst, advising enterprise clients on security operations topics.

Links Referenced:

Sysdig: https://sysdig.com/
“2022 Sysdig Cloud-Native Threat Report”: https://sysdig.com/threatreport

Feature Flags & Dynamic Configuration Through AWS AppConfig with Steve Rice Oct 11, 2022

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About Steve:

Steve Rice is Principal Product Manager for AWS AppConfig. He is surprisingly passionate about feature flags and continuous configuration. He lives in the Washington DC area with his wife, 3 kids, and 2 incontinent dogs.

Links Referenced:

AWS AppConfig: https://go.aws/awsappconfig

HeatWave and the Latest Evolution of MySQL with Nipun Agarwal Oct 06, 2022

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About Nipun

Nipun Agarwal is a Senior Vice President, MySQL HeatWave 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 Referenced:

Oracle: https://oracle.com
MySQL HeatWave info: https://www.oracle.com/mysql/
MySQL Service on AWS and OCI login (Oracle account required): https://cloud.mysql.com

ChaosSearch and the Evolving World of Data Analytics with Thomas Hazel Oct 04, 2022

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About Thomas

Thomas Hazel is Founder, CTO, and Chief Scientist of ChaosSearch. He is a serial entrepreneur at the forefront of communication, virtualization, and database technology and the inventor of ChaosSearch's patented IP. Thomas has also patented several other technologies in the areas of distributed algorithms, virtualization and database science. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of New Hampshire, Hall of Fame Alumni Inductee, and founded both student & professional chapters of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Links Referenced:

ChaosSearch: https://www.chaossearch.io/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChaosSearch
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CHAOSSEARCH/

The Unseen Impact of Cloud Migration with Donovan Brady Sep 29, 2022

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About Donovan

Donovan Brady is the Director of Solutions Architecture at Logicworks. He began his career at Logicworks six years ago as a Solutions Architect, fast forward to today, Donovan now manages a team of highly skilled and certified AWS and Azure Solutions Architects. During his time at Logicworks, Donovan has had the opportunity to work with companies in a variety of verticals to solve their most complex IT and business challenges. Donovan is originally from New York and has been a professional musician since the age of six. He is also a self-proclaimed 90’s video game nerd.

Links Referenced:

LogicWorks: https://www.logicworks.com/
Donovan’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donovan-brady-9403a583/

The Controversy of Cloud Repatriation With Amy Tobey of Equinix Sep 27, 2022

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About Amy

Amy 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: https://metal.equinix.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MissAmyTobey

How Data Discovery is Changing the Game with Shinji Kim Sep 22, 2022

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About Shinji

Shinji Kim is the Founder & CEO of Select Star, an automated data discovery platform that helps you to understand & manage your data. Previously, she was the Founder & CEO of Concord Systems, a NYC-based data infrastructure startup acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2016. She led the strategy and execution of Akamai IoT Edge Connect, an IoT data platform for real-time communication and data processing of connected devices. Shinji studied Software Engineering at University of Waterloo and General Management at Stanford GSB.

Links Referenced:

Select Star: https://www.selectstar.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/selectstarhq/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/selectstarhq

Azul and the Current State of the Java Ecosystem with Scott Sellers Sep 20, 2022

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About Scott

With more than 28 years of successful leadership in building high technology companies and delivering advanced products to market, Scott provides the overall strategic leadership and visionary direction for Azul Systems.

Scott has a consistent proven track record of vision, leadership, and success in enterprise, consumer and scientific markets. Prior to co-founding Azul Systems, Scott founded 3dfx Interactive, a graphics processor company that pioneered the 3D graphics market for personal computers and game consoles. Scott served at 3dfx as Vice President of Engineering, CTO and as a member of the board of directors and delivered 7 award-winning products and developed 14 different graphics processors. After a successful initial public offering, 3dfx was later acquired by NVIDIA Corporation.

Prior to 3dfx, Scott was a CPU systems architect at Pellucid, later acquired by MediaVision. Before Pellucid, Scott was a member of the technical staff at Silicon Graphics where he designed high-performance workstations.

Scott graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor of science, earning magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors. Scott has been granted 8 patents in high performance graphics and computing and is a regularly invited keynote speaker at industry conferences.

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Azul: https://www.azul.com/

The Future of Serverless with Allen Helton Sep 15, 2022

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About Allen

Allen is a cloud architect at Tyler Technologies. He helps modernize government software by creating secure, highly scalable, and fault-tolerant serverless applications.

Allen publishes content regularly about serverless concepts and design on his blog - Ready, Set Cloud!

Links Referenced:

Ready, Set, Cloud blog: https://readysetcloud.io
Tyler Technologies: https://www.tylertech.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/allenheltondev
Linked: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allenheltondev/

The Ever-Changing World of Cloud Native Observability with Ian Smith Sep 13, 2022

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About Ian

Ian Smith is Field CTO at Chronosphere where he works across sales, marketing, engineering and product to deliver better insights and outcomes to observability teams supporting high-scale cloud-native environments. Previously, he worked with observability teams across the software industry in pre-sales roles at New Relic, Wavefront, PagerDuty and Lightstep.

Links Referenced:

Chronosphere: https://chronosphere.io
Last Tweet in AWS: lasttweetinaws.com

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