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Interlacing Literature, Academia, and Tech with Kate Holterhoff Apr 28, 2022

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About Kate

Kate 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.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kateholterhoff

Data Analytics in Real Time with Venkat Venkataramani Apr 27, 2022

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About Venkat

Venkat 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.com
Company blog: https://rockset.com/blog

To SQL or noSQL, Why is that the Question with Chris Harris Apr 26, 2022

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About Chris

Chris 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.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-harris-5451953/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cj_harris5

Allowing Aspiration to Lead with Tom Totenberg Apr 21, 2022

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About Tom

Tom 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.com
Heidi Waterhouse Twitter: https://twitter.com/wiredferret

Creating “Quinntainers” with Casey Lee Apr 20, 2022

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About Casey

Casey 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.com
snark.cloud/quinntainers: https://snark.cloud/quinntainers
ECS Chargeback: https://github.com/gaggle-net/ecs-chargeback
twitter.com/nektos: https://twitter.com/nektos

The Independent AWS Security Researcher with Scott Piper Apr 19, 2022

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About Scott

Cloud security historian.

Developed flaws.cloud, CloudMapper, and Parliament.

Founding team for fwd:cloudsec

Links:

Block: https://block.xyz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xdabbad00

Web3 Ain’t All Its Cracked up to Be Molly White Apr 14, 2022

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About Molly

Molly 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.com
lasttweetinaws.com: https://lasttweetinaws.com
mollywhite.net: https://mollywhite.net
@molly0xFFF: https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF
@web3isgreat: https://twitter.com/web3isgreat
ponzl: http://ponzl.com

The Anti-Entropy Agent with Johnny Podhradsky Apr 13, 2022

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About Johnny

Johnny 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/1436129343399346184
Personal website: https://jmpod.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmpod
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gratitudeisfree/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gratitudeisfree/

Doing DevRel on Easy Mode with Matty Stratton Apr 12, 2022

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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 Referenced

Pulumi: https://www.pulumi.com/
Arrested DevOps: https://www.arresteddevops.com/
8bits.tv: https://8bits.tv
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattstratton
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattstratton/
speaking.mattstratton.com: https://speaking.mattstratton.com
twitch.tv/Pulumi: https://twitch.tv/Pulumi
8bit.tv: https://8bit.tv
duckbillgroup.com: https://duckbillgroup.com

An Honest Approach to Transformative Shifts with Joe Onisick Apr 07, 2022

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About Joe

Joe 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

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