Screaming in the Cloud

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The Security Coat of Many Colors with Will Gregorian Aug 19, 2021

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About Will

Will is recovering System Administrator with a decade's worth of experience in technology and management. He now embraces the never-ending wild and exciting world of Information Security.

Links:

Color Health: https://www.color.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/willgregorian

What an “Agilist” Brings to the Engineering Table with Cliff Moon Aug 18, 2021

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About Cliff

Cliff is an Agile Consultant and self proclaimed “computer botherer.”

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Agile Manifesto: https://agilemanifesto.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/moonpolysoft

Finding a Common Language for Incidents with John Allspaw Aug 17, 2021

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About John

John Allspaw has worked in software systems engineering and operations for over twenty years in many different environments. John’s publications include the books The Art of Capacity Planning (2009) and Web Operations (2010) as well as the forward to “The DevOps Handbook.” His 2009 Velocity talk with Paul Hammond, “10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation” helped start the DevOps movement.

John served as CTO at Etsy, and holds an MSc in Human Factors and Systems Safety from Lund University

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The Art of Capacity Planning: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Capacity-Planning-Scaling-Resources/dp/1491939206/
Web Operations: https://www.amazon.com/Web-Operations-Keeping-Data-Time/dp/1449377440/
The DevOps Handbook: https://www.amazon.com/DevOps-Handbook-World-Class-Reliability-Organizations/dp/1942788002/
Adaptive Capacity Labs: https://www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com
John Allspaw Twitter: https://twitter.com/allspaw
Richard Cook Twitter: https://twitter.com/ri_cook
Dave Woods Twitter: https://twitter.com/ddwoods2

At the Cutting Edge & Node with Nader Dabit Aug 12, 2021

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About Nader

Currently working to help build the decentralized future at Edge and Node.
Previously led Developer Advocacy for Front End Web and Mobile at Amazon Web Services.
Specializing in GraphQL, cross platform, & cloud enabled web & mobile application development
Developing applications & reference architectures using a combination of GraphQL & serverless technologies built on AWS
4 years experience training fortune 500 companies on web & mobile application development, with the last two focused on React and React Native Training (clients include Microsoft, Amazon, US Army Corps of Engineers, Visa, ClassPass, American Express, Indeed, & Warner Bros).
Mobile consultant specializing in cross platform web & mobile application development
Author of React Native in Action (Manning Publications)
Author of Full Stack Serverless (O'Reilly Publications)
International speaker
Creator of React Native Elements
Creator of JAMstack CMS & JAMStack ECommerce

Links:

Edge & Node: https://edgeandnode.com
Js.la: https://js.la
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dabit3
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/naderdabit

A Non-Traditional Path into the SRE Folds with Serena Tiede Aug 10, 2021

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About Serena

Serena Tiede is a SRE at Optum, a healthcare technology company that manages everything from the delivery of care to the management of patient data. Prior to becoming an SRE they were a Kafka operator for real time security logging and ingestion. In their off time, they moonlight as the proud admin of an incredibly over engineered Minecraft server.

Links:

Optim: https://www.optum.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SerenaTiede
Personal Blog: https://blog.serenacodes.com

A Conversation between Cloud Economists with Amy Arambulo Negrette Aug 05, 2021

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About Amy

With over ten years industry experience, Amy Arambulo Negrette has built web applications for a variety of industries including Yahoo! Fantasy Sports and NASA Ames Research Center. One of her projects modernized two legacy systems impacting the entire research center and won her a Certificate of Excellence from the Ames Contractor Council. More recently, she built APIs for enterprise clients for a cloud consulting firms and led a team of Cloud Software Engineers. Amy has survived acquisitions, layoffs, and balancing life with two small children.

Links:

The Duckbill Group: http://duckbillgroup.com/
@nerdypaws: https://twitter.com/nerdypaws

The Operations of Operations with Jesse DeRose Aug 03, 2021

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About Jesse

Jesse is a seasoned operations engineer with a deep passion for understanding complex technical and organizational systems. He's spent his career helping Engineering teams achieve their business goals by improving how they interact with their technical systems, and with each other. He's currently a Cloud Economist with Duckbill Group, guiding organizations along their journey of cloud cost optimization and management.

Links:

The Duckbill Group: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/
Jesse’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/jesse_derose
AWS Morning Brief: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-morning-brief/

Analyzing Analysts with James Governor Jul 29, 2021

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About James

James is the Redmonk co-founder, sunshine in a bag, industry analyst loves developers, "motivating in a surreal kind of way". Came up with "progressive delivery". He/Him

Links:

RedMonk: https://redmonk.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MonkChips
Monktoberfest: https://monktoberfest.com/
Monki Gras: https://monkigras.com/

11 Job Titles in 8 Years at 1 Company with Sean Kilgore Jul 27, 2021

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About Sean

Sean Kilgore is an Architect at Twilio, where he draws boxes, lighthouses and soapboxes. In Sean’s spare time, he enjoys reading, walking, gaming, and a well-made drink.

Links:

Twilio: https://www.twilio.com/
Silvia Botros's Twitter: https://twitter.com/dbsmasher
Sean's Twitter: https://twitter.com/log1kal

Innovations and the Changing DevOps Tides of Tech with Nigel Kersten Jul 22, 2021

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About Nigel

Nigel Kersten’s day job is Field CTO at Puppet where he leads a group of engineers who work with Puppet’s largest customers on cultural and organizational changes necessary for large-scale DevOps implementations - among other things. He’s a co-author of the industry-leading State Of DevOps Report and likes to evenly talk about what went right with DevOps and what went wrong based on this research and his experience in the field. He’s held multiple positions at Puppet across product and engineering and came to Puppet from the Google SRE organization, where he was responsible for one of the largest Puppet deployments in the world. Nigel is passionate about behavioral economics, electronic music, synthesizers, and Test cricket. Ask him about late-stage capitalism, and shoes.

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