Screaming in the Cloud

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The AWS Evangelist with Jon Myer Aug 06, 2020

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About Jon Myer

A Partner Solutions Architect for Cloud Management Tools at AWS. Jon Myer is an evangelist for all things AWS and passionate about educating, teaching, and connecting with others about new or existing services AWS releases.

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The AWS Blogger: https://www.theawsblogger.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/_jonmyer
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-myer/

Resigning from AWS on Ethical Grounds with Tim Bray Aug 04, 2020

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About Tim Bray:

Tim is a general-purpose Internet-software geek. He specializes in Web, search, writing, speaking, business. He founded Textuality in 1996. He is available for consulting on issues of technology leadership, software construction, and distributed systems. You can follow Tim's musings on his blog ongoing and on Twitter.

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“Working Effectively with Legacy Code”: https://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Feathers/dp/0131177052
Twitter: https://twitter.com/timbray
Blog: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/
Article Tim wrote about his PR FAQ: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/06/21/A-Cloud-PR-FAQ
Tim Bray’s “Split AWS from Amazon” PR FAQ he wrote: https://github.com/timbray/a-cloud-prfaq
Tim Bray’s “Break up Google” article: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/06/25/Break-Up-Google

Corey’s Fake PR FAQ: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/introducing-aws-elastic-beanstalker/

Cloud Education Made Easy with Katie Bullard Jul 30, 2020

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About Katie Bullard

As President of A Cloud Guru, Katie leads the sales, marketing, customer success, and partnership teams for the world's largest and most trusted cloud training platform.

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Main company site: https://acloud.guru/ and https://acloudguru.com
A Cloud Guru Twitter: https://twitter.com/acloudguru
A Cloud Guru LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/a-cloud-guru/

Building Ethical Tech Companies with Liz Fong-Jones Jul 28, 2020

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About Liz Fong-Jones

Liz is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 16+ years of experience. She is an advocate at Honeycomb for the SRE and Observability communities, and previously was an SRE working on products ranging from the Google Cloud Load Balancer to Google Flights.

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Company Site: https://www.honeycomb.io/
The Duckbill Group: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/
Honeycomb Liz: https://www.honeycomb.io/liz
Personal site: https://www.lizthegrey.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/lizthegrey

The Cloud Bard Speaks with Forrest Brazeal Jul 21, 2020

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About Forrest Brazeal

Forrest is an enterprise cloud architect, speaker, and community advocate. Currently a senior manager at A Cloud Guru, he spent years designing applications for the cloud at Infor and Trek10. One of the original AWS Serverless Heroes, Forrest was also named one of Jefferson Frank's Top 7 Global AWS Experts in 2019. His first book, "The Read-Aloud Cloud", is coming from Wiley in September 2020.

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Book: https://www.amazon.com/Read-Aloud-Cloud-Innocents-Inside/dp/1119677629
Cloud Irregular: https://cloudirregular.substack.com/ works. Note that this is the link behind some text that is “forrestBrazeal.com/mailinglist” which was not a working link.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/forrestbrazeal
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/forrestbrazeal/
Personal Website: https://forrestbrazeal.com/
Article “Why Central Cloud Teams Fail”: https://info.acloud.guru/resources/why-central-cloud-teams-fail-and-how-to-save-yours

Optimizing Cloud Spend at Airbnb with Melanie Cebula Jul 14, 2020

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About Melanie Cebula

Melanie Cebula is an expert in Cloud Infrastructure, where she is recognized worldwide for explaining radically new ways of thinking about cloud efficiency and usability. She is an international keynote speaker, presenting complex technical topics to a broad range of audiences, both international and domestic. Melanie is a staff engineer at Airbnb, where she has experience building a scalable modern architecture on top of cloud-native technologies.

Besides her expertise in the online world, Melanie spends her time offline on the “sharp end” of rock climbing. An adventure athlete setting new personal records in challenging conditions, she appreciates all aspects of the journey, including the triumph of reaching ever higher destinations.

On and off the wall, Melanie focuses on building reliability into critical systems, and making informed decisions in difficult situations. In her personal time, Melanie hand whisks matcha tea, enjoys costuming and dancing at EDM festivals, and she is a triplet.

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/melaniecebula
Melanie Cebula’s website: https://melaniecebula.com/

Bringing Empathy and Humility to Tech with Conrad Heiney Jul 07, 2020

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/substitute

Digital Security for Humans with Jessy Irwin Jul 02, 2020

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About Jessy Irwin

Jessy is Founder at Amulet. She enjoys the challenge of translating complex cybersecurity problems into relatable terms, and is responsible for developing, maintaining and delivering comprehensive ecosystem security strategy that supports and enables the needs of the people who depend on Tendermint and the CosmosSDK.

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All Things Azure with Dwayne Monroe Jun 30, 2020

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About Dwayne Monroe

I've been a technologist, in some form, for most of my conscious life (starting with a Sinclair kit computer). I work as a cloud architect, focused on Azure and spend a lot of time thinking and writing about that (particularly controlling spend). Besides that, I enjoy a good Bordeaux or martini, travel and my life as a transplant to Amsterdam.

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Untying the Gordian Knot of Cloud Spend with Wes Miller Jun 25, 2020

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About Wes Miller

Wes Miller analyzes and writes about Azure infrastructure services, including Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Active Directory, and Microsoft systems management technologies.

Before joining Directions on Microsoft, Wes was a product manager and development manager for several Austin, TX, start-ups, including Winternals Software, acquired by

Microsoft in 2006. Prior to that, Wes spent seven years at Microsoft working as a program manager in the Windows Core Operating System and MSN divisions.

Wes received a B.A. in psychology from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

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