Observy McObservface

Jonan Scheffler interviews Senior Architect at Slalom Build, Renata Rocha about coaching customers as to why a certain technology such as Kubernetes may or may not be the best choice for what they're trying to achieve, being in the practice of educating yourself constantly, and how it’s easier to understand how to solve problems when you have the tools in your hands.

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Jonan Scheffler interviews Manager of Community Relations at Storj, Jocelyn Matthews, about camaraderie, community building, and the concept that in a sense, all communities are virtual, whether you're physically going somewhere or not, because the concept of community – the meaning of community –  really exists in your head ::mind blown:: 🤯

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Jonan Scheffler interviews Microsoft Cloud Advocate Jay Gordon about how important it is to maintain your reputation as a business, that monitoring and observability are both integral parts of how we keep things online and running nowadays, and how serverless is the future and how it’s going to eventually make problems like hosting easier for devs.

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Jeff Smith and Jonan Scheffler hang out and talk about complex issues, pragmatism, and being happy in the Ops.

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Marko Anastasov, Co-Founder at Semaphore, talks to Jonan Scheffler about how Semaphore optimizes a happy path for developers in the Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) space, having much love for Ruby on Rails, its community members, and its impact on software development, and if he could go back in time to give young Marko advice, it would be that if you're in the position that you want to build some kind of a product that you want other people to use and benefit from, just do it! 

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Senior Developer Relations Program Manager at New Relic, Mia Moore talks to Jonan about how it’s healthy and cool to be friends with your boss, bringing their vision of the perfect DevRel job to fruition, and Furby hacking for fun! 

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Principle SRE at Equinix, Amy Tobey talks to Jonan about leadership anxiety and managing that, using SLOs as durable processes in our businesses that drag our focus back to customers on a regular basis, and the fact that as software developers, we can't learn it all because it's impossible. 

Instead, Amy says that in order to succeed in the field, we’ve got to pick something that we can dig into and get good at some small corner of it. Then! We need to find ourselves a little, secure space and work outwards from there.

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Austin Schaefer, Jerel Miller, John Vajda of New Relic talk about the company’s decision to open source their docs, how they did it, and some of the interesting technical challenges they faced while doing so.

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Aaron Aldrich talks about applying the Red Hat treatment to Kubernetes, working as a Managed OpenShift Black Belt, resilience engineering, and running Tabletop DevOps.

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Principal Developer Advocate for SRE & Observability at Honeycomb, Liz Fong-Jones, talks about common questions she regularly gets from companies and clients looking to implement observability into their workflow and defines observability as a mechanism in order to improve the operability of systems. 

Liz says we shouldn’t talk about observability in a vacuum and that instead, it's a technique for analyzing production data that goes hand in hand with other production techniques, team philosophies, and development methodologies. 

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