Screaming in the Cloud

About SheeriAfter almost 2 decades as a database administrator and award-winning thought leader, Sheeri Cabral pivoted to technical product management. Her super power of “new customer” empathy informs her presentations and explanations. Sheeri has developed unique insights into working together and planning, having survived numerous reorganizations, “best practices”, and efficiency models. Her experience is the result of having worked at everything from scrappy startups such as Guardium – later bought by IBM – to influential tech companies like Mozilla and MongoDB, to large established organizations like Salesforce.Links Referenced:Collibra: https://www.collibra.comWildAid GitHub: https://github.com/wildaidTwitter: https://twitter.com/sheeriPersonal Blog: https://sheeri.org

About ChrisChris is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at incident.io, where they're building incident management products that people actually want to use. A software engineer by trade, Chris is no stranger to gnarly incidents, having participated (and caused!) them at everything from early stage startups through to enormous IT organizations.Links Referenced:incident.io: https://incident.ioPractical Guide to Incident Management: https://incident.io/guide/

About MaishMaish Saidel-Keesing is a Senior Enterprise Developer Advocate @AWS working on containers and has been working in IT for the past 20 years and with a stronger focus on cloud and automation for the past 7.He has extensive experience with AWS Cloud technologies, DevOps and Agile practices and implementations, containers, Kubernetes, virtualization, and a number of fun things he has done along the wayHe is constantly trying to bridge the gap between Developers and Operators to allow all of us provide a better service for our customers (and not wake up from pages in the middle of the night). He is an avid practitioner of dissolving silos - educating Ops how to code and explaining to Devs what the hell is OperationsLinks Referenced:@maishsk: https://twitter.com/maishskduckbillgroup.com: https://duckbillgroup.com

About ChrisChris is a robotics engineer turned cloud security practitioner. From building origami robots for NASA, to neuroscience wearables, to enterprise software consulting, he is a passionate builder at heart. Chris is a cofounder of Common Fate, a company with a mission to make cloud access simple and secure.Links:Common Fate: https://commonfate.io/Granted: https://granted.devTwitter: https://twitter.com/chr_norm

Full Description / Show NotesCorey and Linda talk about Tiktok and the online developer community (1:18)Linda talks about what prompted her to want to work at AWS (5:29)Linda discusses navigating the change from just being part of the developer community to being an employee of AWS (10:37)Linda talks about moving AWS more in the direction of short form content, and Corey and Linda talk about the Tiktok algorithm (15:56)Linda talks about the potential struggle of going from short form to long form content (25:21)About LindaLinda Vivah is a Site Reliability Engineer for a major media organization in NYC, a tech content creator, an AWS community builder member, a part-time wedding singer, and the founder of a STEM jewelry shop called Coding Crystals. At the time of this recording she was about to join AWS in her current position as a Developer Advocate.Linda had an untraditional journey into tech. She was a Philosophy major in college and began her career in journalism. In 2015, she quit her tv job to attend The Flatiron School, a full stack web development immersive program in NYC. She worked as a full-stack developer building web applications for 5 years before shifting into SRE to work on the cloud end internally.Throughout the years, she’s created tech content on platforms like TikTok & Instagram and believes that sometimes the best way to learn is to teach.Links Referenced:lindavivah.com: https://lindavivah.com

Full Description / Show NotesSteren and Corey talk about how Google Cloud Run got its name (00:49)Corey talks about his experiences using Google Cloud (2:42)Corey and Steren discuss Google Cloud’s cloud run custom domains (10:01)Steren talks about Cloud Run’s high developer satisfaction and scalability (15:54)Corey and Steren talk about Cloud Run releases at Google I/O (23:21)Steren discusses the majority of developer and customer interest in Google’s cloud product (25:33)Steren talks about his 20% projects around sustainability (29:00)About SterenSteren is a Senior Product Manager at Google Cloud. He is part of the serverless team, leading Cloud Run. He is also working on sustainability, leading the Google Cloud Carbon Footprint product.Steren is an engineer from École Centrale (France). Prior to joining Google, he was CTO of a startup building connected objects and multi device solutions.Links Referenced:Google Cloud Run: https://cloud.runsheets-url-shortener: https://github.com/ahmetb/sheets-url-shortenersnark.cloud/run: https://snark.cloud/runTwitter: https://twitter.com/steren

Full Description / Show NotesGafnit explains how she found a vulnerability in RDS, an Amazon database service (1:40)Gafnit and Corey discuss the concept of not being able to win in cloud security (7:20)Gafnit talks about transparency around security breaches (11:02)Corey and Gafnit discuss effectively communicating with customers about security (13:00)Gafnit answers the question “Did you come at the RDS vulnerability exploration from a perspective of being deeper on the Postgres side or deeper on the AWS side? (18:10)Corey and Gafnit talk about the risk of taking a pre-existing open source solution and offering it as a managed service (19:07)Security measures in cloud-native approaches versus cloud-hosted (22:41)Gafnit and Corey discuss the security community (25:04)About GafnitGafnit Amiga is the Director of Security Research at Lightspin. Gafnit has 7 years of experience in Application Security and Cloud Security Research. Gafnit leads the Security Research Group at Lightspin, focused on developing new methods to conduct research for new cloud native services and Kubernetes. Previously, Gafnit was a lead product security engineer at Salesforce focused on their core platform and a security researcher at GE Digital. Gafnit holds a Bs.c in Computer Science from IDC Herzliya and a student for Ms.c in Data Science.Links Referenced:Lightspin: https://www.lightspin.io/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gafnitavLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gafnit-amiga-b1357b125/

Full Description / Show NotesMarie talks about Oki Doki’s primary product, Notion Mastery (2:38)Corey and Marie talk ADHD diagnosis and how it has impacted their lives and work (4:26)Marie and Corey discuss techniques they’ve developed for coping with ADHD (11:22)Corey and Marie talk about workarounds for people with ADHD who want to adopt something like Notion (16:13) Marie discusses the importance of being excited about the tools you’re employing (18:54)Corey and Marie talk about finding tools that work for you (26:43)Marie and Corey discuss the unique challenge of teaching skills versus dumping knowledge (30:35)About Marie PoulinMarie teaches business owners to level up their digital systems, workflow, and knowledge management processes using Notion.She’s the co-founder of Oki Doki and creator of Notion Mastery, an online program and community that helps creators, entrepreneurs and small teams tame their work + life chaos by building life and business management systems with Notion.Diagnosed with ADHD at age 37, Marie is especially passionate about helping folks customize their workflows and workspaces to meet their unique needs and preferences.She believes that Notion is especially powerful for neurodivergent folks who have long struggled to adhere to traditional or rigid project management processes, and may need a little extra customization and flexibility.When she's not tinkering in Notion or doing live trainings, you can find her in the garden, playing video games, or cooking up some delicious vegetarian tacos.Links Referenced:Oki Doki: https://weareokidoki.com/Personal website: https://mariepoulin.comNotion Mastery: https://notionmastery.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/mariepoulin

Full Description / Show NotesGuillermo talks about how he came to work at OCI and what it was like helping to pioneer Oracle’s cloud product (1:40)Corey and Guillermo discuss the challenges and realities of multi-cloud (6:00)Corey asks about OCI’s dedicated region approach (8:27)Guillermo discusses the problem of awareness (12:40)Corey and Guillermo talk cloud providers and cloud migration (14:40)Guillermo shares about how OCI’s cost and customer service is unique among cloud providers (16:56)Corey and Guillermo talk about IoT services and 5G (23:58)About Guillermo RuizGuillermo Ruiz gets into trouble more often than he would like. During his career Guillermo has seen many horror stories while building data centers worldwide. In 2007 he dreamed with space-based internet and direct routing between satellites, but he could only reach “the Cloud”. And there he is, helping customer build their business in someone else servers since 2011.Beware of his sense of humor...If you ever see him in a tech event, run, he will get you in problems.Links:Twitter: https://twitter.com/IaaSgeek, https://twitter.com/OracleStartupLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gruizesteban/

About swyxswyx has worked on React and serverless JavaScript at Two Sigma, Netlify and AWS, and now serves as Head of Developer Experience at Airbyte. He has started and run communities for hundreds of thousands of developers, like Svelte Society, /r/reactjs, and the React TypeScript Cheatsheet. His nontechnical writing was recently published in the Coding Career Handbook for Junior to Senior developers.Links Referenced:“Learning Gears” blog post: https://www.swyx.io/learning-gearsThe Coding Career Handbook: https://learninpublic.orgPersonal Website: https://swyx.ioTwitter: https://twitter.com/swyx