Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

Let's go back to AOL chat rooms

Apr 27, 2024

Mandi Walls, a cloud tech expert, takes us back to AOL chat room days with the hosts. They discuss legacy systems, tech challenges, women in tech, and AOL's tech evolution. From personal connections in chat rooms to infrastructure management transitions, the nostalgia-filled conversation contrasts past and present tech landscapes.

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Introduction

00:00 • 3min

Exploring the Influence of AOL Chat Rooms on Community Building and Online Social Networks

02:47 • 4min

Navigating Challenges in Tech Spaces

06:53 • 11min

Exploring Legacy Systems, Transition to REST, and Introduction to Bedrock Platform

17:32 • 2min

AOL's Tech Environment in the Early 2000s

19:38 • 9min

Nostalgia and Evolution of Infrastructure Management

29:00 • 13min

Evolution of Web Operations and Infrastructure at AOL

42:22 • 8min

Exploration of Data Analytics and User Engagement in Early Internet Days

49:56 • 3min

Data Evolution and Scalability Challenges

53:03 • 6min

The Value of Collaboration and Online Presence

59:18 • 5min

Exploring Projects under the Apache Foundation

01:03:51 • 4min

Exploring Various Software Tools and Frameworks

01:07:49 • 4min

In this episode Justin and Autumn are joined by Mandi Walls to take you back to a time before the cloud. Before Kubernetes. When a/s/l was common and servers were made of metal. Back to the days of AOL to discuss how chat rooms worked.

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Mandi Walls – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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