In this Rejekts Podcast episode Vincent Batts and Mark Coleman are joined by Charity Majors, CTO and co-founder of Honeycomb.

Charity talks about her first systems engineering experience at Linden lab’s Second Life, goes back to her childhood and how that got her to who she is today. She ponders on her motivation to do things, and shares how managing her ADHD affects her professional as well as personal life. And of course, much more!

In this Rejekts podcast episode, hosts Mark Coleman and Vincent Batts welcome Alex Ellis, founder of OpenFaaS.

Alex shares his journey, from breaking the family computer to founding OpenFaaS. He talks about how and why he focuses on person-experience in his work and elaborates on the importance of understanding and removing friction for a smooth user experience. He touches on his process of dealing and going past rejection in his professional as well as his personal life, and much more.

Hosts Vincent Batts and Mark Coleman talk to Matt Klein, Software Engineer at Lyft and creator of Envoy. 

Matt talks about his experience of creating and leading an open source project, touches on how to achieve a net positive outcome in the Open Source industry and gives some valuable career advice.

Mark Coleman and Vincent Batts talk to Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent. 

Liz goes back to her beginnings of working with computers to becoming the queen of the geeks. She takes us behind the scenes of her career as a Chair of the Technical Oversight Committee at the CNCF and dives into her process of making career decisions. Ending with the podcast trademark - unpopular predictions for 2021.

If you enjoyed this teaser, make sure to tune in next week and listen to the entire episode of Rejekts Podcast episode with Liz Rice. 

This episode is a continuation of our conversation with Kris Nova. 

In this portion, Nova touches on the importance of space for experimentation, forgiveness and ability to find humor in your struggles. She shares her love of systemd and ends with our signature unpopular predictions for 2021.

Mark’s and Vincent’s latest guest is Kris Nova. 

In the first of a two part series, Nova elaborates on her (in)famous Rejection Sucks blog, lessons from the mountains, her take on developer advocacy and her mission to rebrand rejektion.

Kirs Nova's blog on Rejection can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/dscekrpz

In this episode Vincent Batts and Mark Coleman talk to William Morgan, the CEO of Buoyant.

In the second episode of Cloud Native Rejekts podcast Mark and Vincent are joined by Christopher Liljenstope, Chief Architect at Cisco, Co-Founder of Tigera and the Father of Calico Project.

Christopher tracks back to the moments of rejection in his career that led him to fathering Calico and becoming the agent of change in virtual networking. He talks about what triggers him to go the opposite way, his process of finding simpler solutions and his unpopular predictions for the upcoming year.

Our first guest joining Vincent Batts and Mark Coleman on the Cloud Native Rejekts Podcast is Suse’s Chief Architect, Darren Shepherd. 

Darren talks about his journey from toying around on Linux as a fourteen-year-old, building clouds with Java to co-founding Rancher and beyond. He takes us behind the scenes of Rancher’s big idea to make computing everywhere possible, driving kubernetes on the edge and k3s. The episode concludes with some unpopular predictions for 2021… you don’t want to miss this!