

Coffee and Open Source
Isaac Levin
Join host Isaac Levin as he has great conversations with folks in the technology and Open Source Community
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Feb 28, 2023 • 1h 3min
Kris Nóva
Kris Nóva is an author, engineer, public speaker and transgender activist best known for her work on Aurae, Linux, and Kubernetes.
She specializes in Linux kernel security, distributed systems, infrastructure management, and open source software engineering. In 2022 she authored Hacking Capitalism an independently published book about modeling the tech industry as a system. In 2017 she co-authored Cloud Native Infrastructure published by O’Reilly Media with Justin Garrison.
Nóva is well known for her open source work. She has created many successful open source projects and has contributed to projects like Linux, Kubernetes, Rust, Go, etc. A popular public speaker, she is best known for her Kubernetes clusterfuck talks.
Today she works as a principal engineer at GitHub focusing on infrastructure platform engineering.
You can follow Kris on Social Media
https://hachyderm.io/@nova
https://nivenly.com/
https://github.com/krisnova
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Feb 14, 2023 • 1h 3min
Dylan Beattie
Dylan Beattie is a consultant, software developer and international keynote speaker. He’s the director of Ursatile, an independent consultancy based in London that specialises in helping organisations bridge the knowledge gap between software development and business strategy. Dylan has been building data-driven web applications since the 1990s; he’s managed teams, taught workshops, and worked on everything from tiny standalone websites to complex distributed systems. He’s a Microsoft MVP, and he regularly speaks at conferences and user groups all over the world.
Dylan is the creator of the Rockstar programming language, and he’s performed his software-themed parodies of classic rock songs all over the world as Dylan Beattie and the Linebreakers. He’s online at dylanbeattie.net and on Twitter as @dylanbeattie.
You can follow Dylan on Social Media https://twitter.com/dylanbeattie https://dylanbeattie.net/
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Jan 10, 2023 • 58min
Jenn Junod
This is Jenn in her own words.
I’m Jenn Junod, it’s lovely to meet you!
As someone who thrives on human connection, I advocate for those who have gone unheard. My passion and experience create a space where people can come together, be it learning live, hosting Sh!t You Don't Want to Talk About, or being a Developcado.
I am a developcado (devrel), speaker, podcast host, and live streamer.
You can follow Jenn on Social Media
https://twitter.com/JennJunod
https://github.com/jennjunod
https://www.twitch.tv/jennjunod
Also check out some other links from Jenn
https://teachjenntech.com/
https://www.shit2talkabout.com/
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Jan 5, 2023 • 1h 1min
Jason Lengstorf
Jason Lengstorf is the host of Learn With Jason, where he pair programs live with web experts to learn something new in 90 minutes. He helps dev tooling companies create more effective media and outreach so they can better educate and connect with developer communities. Jason advocates for continued learning through collaboration and play. He is the undefeated smashburger champ and lives in Portland, OR.
You can follow Jason on Social Media
https://twitter.com/jlengstorf
https://www.jason.af/
Also check out some other links from Jason
https://www.learnwithjason.dev/
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Nov 15, 2022 • 59min
Liz Fong-Jones
Liz is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 18+ years of experience. She is currently the Field CTO at Honeycomb, and previously was an SRE working on products ranging from the Google Cloud Load Balancer to Google Flights.
She lives in Vancouver, BC with her wife Elly, partners, and a Samoyed/Golden Retriever mix, and in Sydney, NSW. She plays classical piano, leads an EVE Online alliance, and advocates for transgender rights.
You can follow Lizon Social Media
https://twitter.com/lizthegrey
https://www.lizthegrey.com/
https://cohost.org/lizthegrey
Also take a look at some Links provided by Liz
https://info.honeycomb.io/observability-engineering-oreilly-book-2022
https://opentelemetry.io/
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Nov 1, 2022 • 1h 1min
Matty Stratton
Matty Stratton is the Director of Developer Relations at Aiven, a well-known member of the DevOps community, founder and co-host of the popular Arrested DevOps podcast, and the global chair of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.
Matty has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and cloud engineering focused events worldwide. Demonstrating his keen insight into the changing landscape of technology, he recently changed his license plate from DEVOPS to KUBECTL.
He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Diet Coke.
You can follow Matty on Social Media
https://twitter.com/mattstratton
https://matty.wtf/
Also take a look at some other links from Matty
https://www.arresteddevops.com/
https://devopsdays.org/
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Oct 19, 2022 • 41min
Scott Hanselman
Scott has been a developer for 30 years and has been blogging at https://hanselman.com for 20 years! He works in Open Source on .NET and the Azure Cloud for Microsoft out of his home office in Portland, Oregon. Scott has been podcasting for over 800 episodes of http://hanselminutes.com over 15 years and 700 episodes of http://www.azurefriday.com. He's written a number of technical books and spoken in person to over one million developers worldwide! He's also on TikTok, which was very likely a huge mistake.
You can follow Scott on Social Media
https://twitter.com/shanselman
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/
https://www.youtube.com/user/shanselman
Also take a look at Scott's Podcast
https://www.hanselminutes.com/
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Oct 12, 2022 • 1h 2min
Mark Eisenberg
Mark is a cloud solution architect at Microsoft focused on cloud native architectures and DevOps. He has seen a lot of tech come and go but the current crop has intrigued him like nothing that has come before. The windmill at which he chooses to tilt are the technology practices of traditional enterprises. He is oddly optimistic on the prospects for real change.
You can follow Mark on Social Media
https://twitter.com/CloudBizAndTech
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mheisenberg
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Oct 5, 2022 • 1h 2min
Glenn Block
Glenn Block is a seasoned leader with 25 years+ experience in software engineering and product management. He is currently working on a stealth startup and also advising organizations on product strategy. Throughout his career, he worked at a number of hi-tech companies including Microsoft, Docusign, Auth0, and Splunk. Glenn has been a big advocate for the open source and developer community and was a maintainer for several successful open source projects. In recent years, Glenn has been very passionate about moving the ball forward for creating a more inclusive and safe environment in tech. He invests a large amount of his energy in mentoring, advising, and sponsorship especially for black women, women of color, and the LBTQ community. He has also worked in multiple organizations to change culture and policies, and has been active with multiple non-profit organizations in this space such as TechBridge Girls and Tech2Empower. Most recently, Glenn became a volunteer fellowship coding instructor at Code Nation. Glenn is a lifelong learner and recently went back to school receiving his executive MBA at Seattle University. He is also an avid rock climber and amateur astronomer. He lives with his wife and life partner in his new home in San Francisco.
You can follow Glenn on Social Media
https://twitter.com/gblock
https://medium.com/@gblock
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Sep 28, 2022 • 59min
Ricardo Sueiras
Ricardo is a principal developer advocate at Amazon Web Services; he works with builders, technology leaders and enterprise executives to help them transform their businesses.
Prior to joining AWS Ricardo worked for one of the largest professional services firms.
He has over twenty years of experience leading open source, emerging technology and innovation programmes. He has been working with cloud technologies since 2008.
Ricardo is passionate about cloud, innovation and open source and is excited about how cloud accelerates and amplifies customers’ ability to innovate.
You can follow Ricardo on Social Media
https://twitter.com/094459
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardosueiras
https://blog.beachgeek.co.uk
https://github.com/094459
Also check out these additional things from Ricardo
https://dev.to/aws/aws-open-source-news-and-updates-128-13lg
https://www.youtube.com/c/BuildOnAWS/videos
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