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Writing the Book on Service Level Objectives with Alex Hidalgo Dec 24, 2020

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About Alex Hidalgo
Alex Hidalgo is a Site Reliability Engineer and author of the upcoming Implementing Service Level Objectives (O'Reilly Media, September 2020). During his career he has developed a deep love for sustainable operations, proper observability, and using SLO data to drive discussions and make decisions. Alex's previous jobs have included IT support, network security, restaurant work, t-shirt design, and hosting game shows at bars. When not sharing his passion for technology with others, you can find him scuba diving or watching college basketball. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner Jen and a rescue dog named Taco. Alex has a BA in philosophy from Virginia Commonwealth University.

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Buy Implementing Service Level Objectives on bookshop.org
Buy Implementing Service Level Objectives on Amazon
Follow Alex on Twitter
Alex’s personal site
Corey’s landing page for Implementing Service Level Objectives

Making Outages Boring with Danyel Fisher Dec 22, 2020

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About Danyel Fisher
Danyel Fisher is a Principal Design Researcher for Honeycomb.io. He focuses his passion for data visualization on helping SREs understand their complex systems quickly and clearly. Before he started at Honeycomb, he spent thirteen years at Microsoft Research, studying ways to help people gain insights faster from big data analytics.

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Danyel’s section on Honeycomb’s website
Danyel’s Personal Site
Follow Danyel on Twitter

Eliminating Security Risks in Kubernetes with Chris Porter Dec 17, 2020

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About Chris Porter
Chris Porter is the Director of Solutions Engineering at StackRox, the leader in Kubernetes-native container security. Porter has more than 20 years of experience in pre-sales engineering roles, serving and advising customers on security for email, web, cloud, and now Kubernetes and containers. Porter is a certified AWS Solutions Architect and AWS Security Specialist, is the author of a Cisco Press book on Email Security, and holds a Master’s degree from Stevens Institute of Technology.

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StackRox
StackRox Blog
Email Chris directly at chris@stackrox.com
Follow Chris on Twitter
Connect with Chris on LinkedIn

D’oh! Memeing about DevOps with @SimpsonsOps Dec 15, 2020

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DevRel Done Well with Matt Stratton Dec 10, 2020

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About Matt Stratton
Matt Stratton is a Transformation Specialist at Red Hat and a long-time member of the global DevOps community. Back in the day, his license plate actually said “DevOps”. Matt has over 20 years of experience in IT operations, ranging from large financial institutions such as JPMorganChase to internet firms including Apartments.com. He is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and ITSM focused events, including DevOps Enterprise Summit, DevOpsDays, Interop, PINK, and others worldwide. Matt is the founder and co-host of the popular Arrested DevOps podcast, as well as the global chair of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.
He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Doctor Who. He is currently on a mission to discover the best phở in the world. You can find him on Twitter at @mattstratton.

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Red Hat
Arrested DevOps
Arrested DevOps podcast about DevOpsDays Chicago
Follow Matt on Twitter
Connect with Matt on LinkedIn
Speaking Events
DevOpsDay Chicago 2020

The Era of Virtual Events with Shelby Spees Dec 08, 2020

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About Shelby Spees
Shelby Spees has been developing software professionally since 2015 in a range of domains, which has made her appreciate the importance of learning how to learn and creating support systems for lifelong skill development. When she’s not helping teams level up their observability practice, you can find her at home playing on her Switch or singing karaoke with her rescue pitbull Nova.

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Follow Shelby on Twitter
Connect with Shelby on LinkedIn
Shelby’s Personal Site
Email Shelby directly at shelby@hey.com

Optimizing for Happiness with Alfonso Cabrera Dec 03, 2020

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About Alfonso Cabrera
Alfonso Cabrera is the Director of Platform Engineering at Red Ventures, where he helps manage and optimize the extensive AWS footprint. He also spent time at AWS as a Solutions Architect and worked as a DevOps Engineer at a few startups. Alfonso enjoys fostering community and has organized DevOpsDays Charlotte for the past 5 years. Outside of work, he tries to stay in shape by playing sports of all kinds, and gets his adrenaline fix by riding motorcycles.

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Red Ventures
Follow Alfonso on Twitter
Connect with Alfonso on LinkedIn

The New Google Cloud with Richard Seroter Dec 01, 2020

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About Richard Seroter
Richard Seroter is Director of Outbound Product Management at Google Cloud, with a master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Colorado. He’s also an instructor at Pluralsight, the lead InfoQ.com editor for cloud computing, a frequent public speaker, the author of multiple books on software design and development, and a former 12-time Microsoft MVP for cloud. Richard maintains a regularly updated blog on topics of architecture and solution design and can be found on Twitter as @rseroter.

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Connect with Richard on LinkedIn
Follow Richard on Twitter
Richard’s Personal Blog

Media as Table Stakes with Peter Cooper Nov 26, 2020

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About Peter Cooper
Founder and editor-in-chief of Cooper Press. Programmer, indexer of all the programming links, former O'Reilly conference chair, and general nerd.

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Cooper Press
JavaScript Weekly
Ruby Weekly
Article, “How to use AWS SimpleDB from Ruby”
Follow Peter on Twitter
Connect with Peter on LinkedIn

The Human Part of Automation with Divanny Lamas Nov 24, 2020

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About Divanny Lamas
Divanny Lamas is the CEO of Transposit, the DevOps automation company. Divanny and the Transposit team are creating a world where humans interact with machines successfully to manage today’s complex technology stacks. Divanny is also a managing director at leading venture capital firm Sutter Hill Ventures. She is passionate about working with entrepreneurs to tackle ambitious technical challenges. Prior to Transposit, she began her career at Google and spent seven years at Splunk, where she saw the rise of big data and was one of the early product managers working on building out visualizations and analytics. She was responsible for product strategy, roadmap, and execution for Splunk's marquee product, Splunk Enterprise. She also served as a senior director of customer success and the head of new product introduction at Splunk. Divanny obtained a bachelor’s degree in government and computer science at Harvard University.

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Transposit
Sutter Hill Ventures
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Connect with Divanny on LinkedIn

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