Observy McObservface

Jonan Scheffler interviews Milecia McGregor, a Developer Advocate at Iterative, about her background in mechanical and aerospace engineering, fiddling with neurotechnology, and shares some of the awesome projects she is working on or has worked on such as an air guitar app, and an IoT dog locator.

Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews Michael Hausenblas who is a Solution Engineering Lead in the AWS open source observability service team. He also serves as a Cloud Native Ambassador at the CNCF. Together, they chat about open source observability including but not limited to Prometheus/OpenMetrics, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and OpenSearch.

Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews Senior Developer Advocate at Loft Labs and creator and host of the Kube Cuddle podcast, Rich Burroughs about being someone in tech who struggles with ADHD and how he is coping and getting help with that, doing Developer Relations in the DevOps space: DevDevOps, perhaps? And, how he thinks Kubernetes is a good choice if you're just starting out in tech. Because as it turns out, it appears that this Kubernetes thing is not slowing down anytime soon!

Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews Splunk Developer Advocate, Chris Riley about DevRel Advocacy, aiming more for HugOps for others when things inevitably go wrong, and bringing security practices earlier in the software delivery chain.

Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews Lauren Langdell, Founder of Women in DevOps: a platform that advocates for not just women's voices but also the LGBTQ+ community, people of different ethnicities, races, and religions, and neurodiverse people within software engineering and DevOps, about being a recruiter who helps underrepresented populations get into tech and thrive across many facets of humanity.

Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews Microsoft MVP Steve Buchanan about Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), how Microsoft's been successful at working in enterprise and open source, where he believes GitOps is eventually going to go, and his excitement in regards to AI and blockchain and how they’re going to impact the world.

Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews Grafana Senior Cloud Integrations Engineer Jacob Plicque about cofounding The Empatheatre: a Twitch stream for live tabletop RPG playing that incorporates a variety of safety tools to keep players psychologically safe and comfortable, why failure isn’t just okay; it’s actually awesome, comfortable disagreement, and the recent explosion in the popularity of developer relations.

Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews Observability Economist, SLOgician, and Zendesk Site Reliability Engineer  Fred Moyer about being a “SLOgician,” which he explains is someone who works on SLOs from a statistics perspective. 

Additionally, a lot of his work is being what he describes as an “observability economist.” Fred works a lot with Zendesk’s observability systems. And because they’ve been growing so rapidly as a company, they've been scaling rapidly as well. Therefore, he works to ensure that they’re using their observability economically.

Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews Google Developer Advocate Amanda Lewis about DevOps Research, and Assessment (DORA), being hospitable to customers and finding creative ways to solve people's problems, and what exactly “a DevRel team does.” 

Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews Shelby Spees, Developer Advocate at Honeycomb.io about her background in teaching and speaking foreign languages, and the overlap between linguistics and software, because in large part, linguistics is about conveying information efficiently with different systems. Similarly, in software, we're always conveying information to machines and/or to each other, (and hopefully, more to each other than to the machines!)

Shelby also talks about her work helping contribute to the CNCF white paper on observability, which is collectively working towards a goal for the betterment of ourselves and our peers.

Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.