Screaming in the Cloud

Links:Linux Foundation: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/OpenJS Foundation: https://openjsf.org/Relying on plain-text email is a 'barrier to entry' for kernel development, says Linux Foundation board member:https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/25/linux_kernel_email/Twitter: https://twitter.com/sarahnovotnyWebsite: https://sarahnovotny.com/

About JamesJames Urquhart is a Strategic Executive Advisor for VMware Tanzu customers. Mr. Urquhart brings almost 30 years of experience in distributed applications development, deployment, and operations, focusing on software as a complex adaptive system, cloud native applications and platforms, and automation. Prior to joining VMware, via Pivotal, Mr. Urquhart ran product and engineering teams for AWS, SOASTA, and Dell (via Enstratius). Mr. Urquhart has also written and spoken extensively about cloud computing, software agility and the business opportunities they afford.Mr. Urquhart was named one of the ten most influential people in cloud computing by both the MIT Technology Review and the Huffington Post, and is a former contributing author to GigaOm and CNET. He recently completed a book on event-driven integration for O'Reilly Publishing titled "Flow Architectures: The Future of Event-Driven Integration".Mr. Urquhart graduated from Macalester College with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Physics.Links:VMWare: https://www.vmware.com/Book: Flow Architectures: The Future of Streaming and Event-Driven integration: https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Architectures-Streaming-Event-Driven-Integration/dp/1492075892Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesurquhart

About NoraNora is the founder and CEO of Jeli. She is a dedicated and driven technology leader and software engineer with a passion for the intersection between how people and software work in practice in distributed systems. In November 2017 she keynoted at AWS re:Invent to share her experiences helping organizations large and small reach crucial availability with an audience of ~40,000 people, helping kick off the Chaos Engineering movement we see today. She created and founded the www.learningfromincidents.io movement to develop and open-source cross-organization learnings and analysis from reliability incidents across various organizations, and the business impacts of doing so.Links:Jeli main webpage: https://www.jeli.io/Chaos Engineering Book: https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Engineering-System-Resiliency-Practice/dp/1492043869Learning From Incidents: https://www.learningfromincidents.io/Jeli contact us form: https://www.jeli.io/contact-us/

About Ana VisneskiAna Visneski is a Grandmaster of Disaster (responding to them more so than causing them). She has 15+ years of experience in communications and disaster response. Ana was an officer in the U.S. Coast Guard for 12 years responding to disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the BP Oilspill. After leaving the service she was the Head of Launch, Blog, and Podcast Operations, before becoming the Head of Global Disaster Response. She is now the Sr. Director of Communications and Community for H2O.ai. She has a Master of Communication in Digital Media and a Master of Communication in Networks. She pronounces AMI the right way...as an acronym.Links Referenced: H2O.ai: https://www.h2o.ai/Twitter: https://twitter.com/acvisneski 

About Sarah KaiserI use lasers to melt acrylic and the cisheteropatriarchy alike. Quantum Computing technologist/consultant by day, author and dog mom the rest of the time.Links:Unitary Fund: https://unitary.fund/Sarah’s Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/crazy4pi314/Learning Quantum Computing with Python and Q#: https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Quantum-Computing-Python-hands/dp/1617296139Twitter: https://twitter.com/crazy4pi314GitHub: https://github.com/crazy4pi314Personal Website: https://www.sckaiser.com/

About Caroline CarterCaroline is our sponsorships manager at The Duckbill Group for our three media publications: Screaming in the Cloud, AWS Morning Brief, and Last Week in AWS. She also helped us create our first-ever re:Quinnvent digital conference in December of 2020.  Before joining the Duckbill Group, Caroline sold market insights software to Fortune 500 companies at CB Insights and payment software to businesses at Square. Prior to her sales career, she worked in client operations at FutureAdvisor helping clients invest their money digitally. She lived in Paris for 3 years, which is where she caught the tech bug and did a coding boot camp. Join Corey and Caroline as they discuss their mutual love of fintech, how learning to code in a foreign language can be tough, why people are reluctant to make changes in their careers, how to find better mentors, and more.Links:Caroline’s email: caroline@theduckbillgroup.com 

About Regis WilsonRegis Wilson is the founding engineer at Release, an environments as a service provider. Regis brings more than 25 years of tech experience to this position, having worked as an infrastructure architect and SRE at TrueCar, Inc. and a cloud systems architect at Live Nation, among several other positions.Links Referenced: Connect with Regis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/regis-wilson-a713609/Personal Website: http://www.zennet.com/Release: https://releaseapp.io/

About the Tim BanksTim Banks is currently with Packet, an Equinix Company, where he is a Principal Solutions Architect. His tech career spans over 20 years through various sectors. Tim’s initial journey into tech started as a US Marine, having originally joined the Marine Corps to be a musician. He was later reassigned into an avionics specialty based on the results of standardized testing. Upon leaving the Marine Corps, he went on to work for hardware manufacturers and defense contractors as a civilian. Later, he left government contracting for the private sector, working both in large corporate environments and in small startups. While working in the private sector, he honed his skills in systems administration and operations for large Unix-based datastores.Today, Tim leverages his years in operations, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering to advise and consult with engineering groups in his current role. Tim is also a husband and a father of five children, as well as a competitive Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner. Currently, he is the reigning American National and Pan American Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu champion in his division.Links Referenced: Equinix Metal: https://metal.equinix.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/elchefe 

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About the GuestTabitha Sable has been a hacker and sysadmin since the turn of the century. She serves Kubernetes as co-chair of SIG Security and an associate member of the Product Security Committee. She loves to build tools and make friends, and puts those skills to work coordinating the efforts of the infrastructure, security, and product teams at Datadog. Outside of work, she can often be found organizing or participating in Capture the Flag contests and loves "pretty much anything with wheels."Links Referenced: Datadog: https://www.datadoghq.com/ “The Ironies of Automation”: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0005109883900468International Journal of Proof of Concept, or Get Out The [BLEEP] out: https://pocorgtfo.hacke.rs/ “Reliable Code Execution on a Tamagotchi”: https://doc8643.com/pocorgtfo/pocorgtfo02.pdf “What happens when you type google.com into your browser's address box and press enter?": https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when Twitter: https://twitter.com/tabbysable