Screaming in the Cloud

About BenjaminBenjamin Anderson is CTO, Cloud at EDB, where he is responsible for developing and driving strategy for the company’s Postgres-based cloud offerings. Ben brings over ten years’ experience building and running distributed database systems in the cloud for multiple startups and large enterprises. Prior to EDB, he served as chief architect of IBM’s Cloud Databases organization, built an SRE practice at database startup Cloudant, and founded a Y Combinator-funded hardware startup.Links Referenced:EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com/BigAnimal: biganimal.com

About BrandonBrandon West was raised in part by video games and BBSes and has been working on web applications since 1999. He entered the world of Developer Relations in 2011 as an evangelist for a small startup called SendGrid and has since held leadership roles at companies like AWS. At Datadog, Brandon is focused on helping developers improve the performance and developer experience of the things they build. He lives in Seattle where enjoys paddle-boarding, fishing, and playing music.Links Referenced:Datadog: https://www.datadoghq.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/bwest

About ChrisChris Short has been a proponent of open source solutions throughout his over two decades in various IT disciplines, including systems, security, networks, DevOps management, and cloud native advocacy across the public and private sectors. He currently works on the Kubernetes team at Amazon Web Services and is an active Kubernetes contributor and Co-chair of OpenGitOps. Chris is a disabled US Air Force veteran living with his wife and son in Greater Metro Detroit. Chris writes about Cloud Native, DevOps, and other topics at ChrisShort.net. He also runs the Cloud Native, DevOps, GitOps, Open Source, industry news, and culture focused newsletter DevOps’ish.Links Referenced:DevOps’ish: https://devopsish.com/EKS News: https://eks.news/Containers from the Couch: https://containersfromthecouch.comopengitops.dev: https://opengitops.devChrisShort.net: https://chrisshort.netTwitter: https://twitter.com/ChrisShort

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/