In the pilot episode of Cloud Gal, we talk to Oana Platon, Principal Developer in Azure Service Fabric. Oana shares her technical history, her technical passions, role models, work/life balance and self care practices, inspirations, support, and provides an overview of Azure Service Fabric. [00:00] Introduction to Cloud Gal Series[00:50] Oana Plato Introduction[01:57] Overview of distributed systems platforms and Azure Service Fabric[08:40] History of the Service Fabric team[10:00] Service Fabric DevOps practices (agile, livesite, experience, challenges, health reports, internal customers, cluster management) [17:20] Future of Service Fabric; problem that Service Fabric solves; Azure Container Services[18:50] General experience as a female developer on the team[20:17] Challenges[22:50] Support for Women in Azure[24:15] Oana's path to becoming a developer[31:17] Oana's first job at Microsoft[32:10] Words of Wisdom for women interested in computer science[32:45] Family and priority setting[36:55] Team support[39:15] Sources of inspiration