Screaming in the Cloud

Stephen O'Grady, Principal Analyst and co-founder of RedMonk, dives into the pivotal role of developers in shaping tech trends. He discusses how RedMonk tailors its insights to serve the developer community effectively. Topics include the evolving influence of developers on vendor success and the challenges they face in communication with engineers. O'Grady also examines how disruptive ideas can transform vendor strategies while cautioning about the resistance to new concepts that can stifle innovation in tech.

About Sid RaoSid Rao is the GM of Amazon Chime. He has over 25 years of industry experience, having worked at Infosys, Nortel, Microsoft, and CTI Group.Links Referencedhttps://chime.aws“Chime after Chime” by Tim Leehane and Spencer Johnson

About Jeff SandquistJeff leads Developer Relations for the cloud at Microsoft, leading the team reinventing Microsoft's relationship with software developers around the globe. Their team is maniacal about making the world amazing for developers of all backgrounds.They are excited to support and contribute to open source platforms, tools, and processes. As Developer Advocates, they’re spreading awareness of Azure and enabling developers to do what they love; write, code, and learn. Great online content (docs, demos, videos, code) is the foundation of everything they do.They create global developer online experiences for Microsoft like docs.microsoft.com, Channel 9, and dev.microsoft.com. They connect with developer communities through their programs including Microsoft MVP, Microsoft Regional Director, their annual Build conference and third-party developer events around the globe.Links ReferencedMicrosoft.com/learnMicrosoft.com/learn/tvbronconamedsue.com

About Colin PercivalColin is the founder of Tarsnap, a secure online backup service which combines the flexibility and scriptability of the standard UNIX "tar" utility with strong encryption, deduplication, and the reliability of Amazon S3 storage. Having started work on Tarsnap in 2006, Colin is among the first generation of users of Amazon Web Services, and has written dozens of articles about his experiences with AWS on his blog.Colin has been a member of the FreeBSD project for 15 years and has served in that time as the project Security Officer and a member of the Core team; starting in 2008 he led the efforts to bring FreeBSD to the Amazon EC2 platform, and for the past 7 years he has been maintaining this support, keeping FreeBSD up to date with all of the latest changes and functionality in Amazon EC2.In his spare time, Colin serves as an alumni representative on the Senate of his alma mater, Simon Fraser University, where he frequently brings a perspective from the world of startups to the ivory tower.Links ReferencedCompany site: https://www.tarsnap.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/cpercivaBlog: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cperciva 

About Prashanth ChandrasekarPrashanth Chandrasekar is Chief Executive Officer of Stack Overflow and is responsible for driving Stack Overflow’s overall strategic direction and results. Prashanth is a proven technology executive with extensive experience leading and scaling high growth global organizations. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace’s Cloud & Infrastructure Services portfolio of businesses, including the Managed Public Clouds, Private Clouds, Colocation and Managed Security businesses. Before that, Prashanth held a range of senior leadership roles at Rackspace including Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace’s high growth, global business focused on the world's leading Public Clouds including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Alibaba Cloud, which became the fastest growing business in Rackspace’s history. Prior to joining Rackspace, Prashanth was a Vice President at Barclays Investment Bank, focused on providing Strategic and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) advice for clients in the Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) industries. Prashanth was also a Manager at Capgemini Consulting where he managed Operations transformation engagements and consulting teams across the US. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an M.Eng in Engineering Management from Cornell University and a B.S. in Computer Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Maine. Prashanth is married and has two children.Links ReferencedTwitterRackspaceStack OverflowStack Exchange

About Bryan LilesBryan Liles is a Senior Staff Engineer at VMware. He leads the Developer Experience group, which creates solutions to help developers be more productive in Kubernetes. When not working, Bryan builds and races cars and drones.Over the past 20 years, Bryan has worked around cloud technology and distributed systems. His approaches to technology are: simplify with fidelity and technology should give access to all.Links Referenced: https://vmware.com

About Jill RouleauJill Rouleau is a member of the Ansible engineering team, focused on maintaining AWS and other Cloud modules. Prior to Ansible, they worked on OpenStack, using more than a decade of operations and SRE experience to improve deployment tooling for cloud operators.Links Referenced:Jill Rouleau's TwitterAnsibleRedHat

About the Jeff SmithJeff Smith has been in the technology industry for over 15 years, oscillating between management and individual contributor. Jeff currently serves as the Director of Production Operations for Centro, an advertising software company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Before that he served as the Manager of Site Reliability Engineering at Grubhub. Jeff is passionate about DevOps transformations in organizations large and small, with a particular interest in the psychological aspects of problems in companies. He lives in Chicago with his wife Stephanie and their two kids Ella and Xander. Jeff is currently writing a book “Operational Anti-Patterns with DevOps Solutions” with Manning publishing due out in Spring of 2020. He’s also the chapter president of Blacks in TechnologyLinks Referenced: @DarkAndNerdy Article: The First DevOps Hurdle BITConBlacks in TechnologyJeff's Book: Operations Anti-Patterns with DevOps Solutions

About Yulan LinYulan is a data nerd with experience in everything from bioinformatics to NLP. She’s currently working as a Developer Advocate for Google’s Data Studio. Prior to Google, she worked in research, event management, and government data science. When not computerating, she can be found reading, hosting dinner parties, and making music.Links ReferencedDigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/CHAOSSEARCH.iohttp://do.co/screamingDataStax: http://www.datastax.comhttps://www.datastax.com/accelerateTwitter https://twitter.com/y3l2n

About Hiro NishimuraM.Ed. in Special Education from University of Maryland. Five years experience working as an IT Engineer in New York City. Now, a “Freepreneur” (Freelance Entrepreneur) in the DC suburbs.Technical Course Instructor at LinkedIn Learning. Founder of AWS Newbies and Cloud Newbies. Founder and CEO of 24 Villages, LLC. – a Writing and Consulting company.LinksDigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/ http://do.co/screaming http://CHAOSSEARCH.io AWSNewbies.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/hirokonishimura Intro to AWS: IntroToAWS.com Cloud Newbies: CloudNewbies.comScreaming in the Cloud: ScreamingintheCloud.com