Screaming in the Cloud

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The Mayor of Wholesome Twitter with Mark Thompson Oct 28, 2021

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About Mark

Mark loves to teach and code.

He is an award winning university instructor and engineer. He comes with a passion for creating meaningful learning experiences. With over a decade of developing solutions across the tech stack, speaking at conferences and mentoring developers he is excited to continue to make an impact in tech. Lately, Mark has been spending time as a Developer Relations Engineer on the Angular Team.

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/marktechson

Teasing Out the Titular Titles with Chris Williams Oct 27, 2021

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About Chris

Chris Williams is a Enterprise Architect for World Wide Technology — a technology solution and service provider. There he helps customers design the next generation of public, private, and hybrid cloud solutions, specializing in AWS and VMware. His first computer was a Commodore 64, and he’s been playing video games ever since.

Chris blogs about virtualization, technology, and design at Mistwire. He is an active community leader, co-organizing the AWS Portsmouth User Group, and both hosts and presents on vBrownBag. He is also an active mentor, helping students at the University of New Hampshire through Diversify Thinking—an initiative focused on empowering girls and women to pursue education and careers in STEM.

Chris is a certified AWS Hero as well as a VMware vExpert.

Fun fact that Chris doesn’t want you to know: he has a degree in psychology so you can totally talk to him about your feelings.

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WWT: https://www.wwt.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mistwire
Personal site: https://mistwire.com
vBrownBag: https://vbrownbag.com/team/chris-williams/

Heresy in the Church of Docker Desktop with Scott Johnston Oct 26, 2021

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About Scott

Scott first typed ‘docker run’ in 2013 and hasn't looked back. He’s been with Docker since 2014 in a variety of leadership roles and currently serves as CEO. His experience previous to Docker includes Sun Microsystems, Puppet, Netscape, Cisco, and Loudcloud (parent of Opsware). When not fussing with computers he spends time with his three kids fussing with computers.

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Docker: https://www.docker.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/scottcjohnston

Navigating the Morass of the Internet with Chloe Condon Oct 21, 2021

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About Chloe

Chloe is a Bay Area based Cloud Advocate for Microsoft. Previously, she worked at Sentry.io where she created the award winning Sentry Scouts program (a camp themed meet-up ft. patches, s’mores, giant squirrel costumes, and hot chocolate), and was featured in the Grace Hopper Conference 2018 gallery featuring 15 influential women in STEM by AnitaB.org. Her projects and work with Azure have ranged from fake boyfriend alerts to Mario Kart 'astrology', and have been featured in VICE, The New York Times, as well as SmashMouth's Twitter account. Chloe holds a BA in Drama from San Francisco State University and is a graduate of Hackbright Academy. She prides herself on being a non-traditional background engineer, and is likely one of the only engineers who has played an ogre, crayon, and the back-end of a cow on a professional stage. She hopes to bring more artists into tech, and more engineers into the arts.

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChloeCondon
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gitforked/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChloeCondonVideos

The Value of Analysts and Observability with Nick Heudecker Oct 20, 2021

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About Nick

Nick Heudecker leads market strategy and competitive intelligence at Cribl, the observability pipeline company. Prior to Cribl, Nick spent eight years as an industry analyst at Gartner, covering data and analytics. Before that, he led engineering and product teams at multiple startups, with a bias towards open source software and adoption, and served as a cryptologist in the US Navy. Join Corey and Nick as they discuss the differences between observability and monitoring, why organizations struggle to get value from observability data, why observability requires new data management approaches, how observability pipelines are creating opportunities for SRE and SecOps teams, the balance between budgets and insight, why goats are the world’s best mammal, and more.

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Cribl: https://cribl.io/
Cribl Community: https://cribl.io/community
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nheudecker
Try Cribl hosted solution: https://cribl.cloud

Works Well with Others with Abby Kearns Oct 19, 2021

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About Abby

With over twenty years in the tech world, Abby Kearns is a true veteran of the technology industry. Her lengthy career has spanned product marketing, product management and consulting across Fortune 500 companies and startups alike. At Puppet, she leads the vision and direction of the current and future enterprise product portfolio. Prior to joining Puppet, Abby was the CEO of the Cloud Foundry Foundation where she focused on driving the vision for the Foundation as well as growing the open source project and ecosystem. Her background also includes product management at companies such as Pivotal and Verizon, as well as infrastructure operations spanning companies such as Totality, EDS, and Sabre.

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Cloud Foundry Foundation: https://www.cloudfoundry.org
Puppet: https://puppet.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ab415

Keeping the Cloudwatch with Ewere Diagboya Oct 14, 2021

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About Ewere

Cloud, DevOps Engineer, Blogger and Author

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Infrastructure Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch: https://www.amazon.com/Infrastructure-Monitoring-Amazon-CloudWatch-infrastructure-ebook/dp/B08YS2PYKJ
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ewere/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nimboya
Medium: https://medium.com/@nimboya
My Cloud Series: https://mycloudseries.com

Working on the Whiteboard from the Start with Tim Banks Oct 13, 2021

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About Tim
Tim’s tech career spans over 20 years through various sectors. Tim’s initial journey into tech started as a US Marine. Later, he left government contracting for the private sector, working both in large corporate environments and in small startups. While working in the private sector, he honed his skills in systems administration and operations for largeUnix-based datastores.

Today, Tim leverages his years in operations, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering to advise and consult with clients in his current role. Tim is also a father of five children, as well as a competitive Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner. Currently, he is the reigning American National and 3-time Pan American Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu champion in his division.

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/elchefe
The Duckbill Group: https://duckbillgroup.com

Changing the Way We Interview with Emma Bostian Oct 12, 2021

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About Emma

Emma Bostian is a Software Engineer at Spotify in Stockholm. She is also a co-host of the Ladybug Podcast, author of Decoding The Technical Interview Process, and an instructor at LinkedIn Learning and Frontend Masters.

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