On-Call Nightmares Podcast

Does this VM bring me joy?

Melissa is Product Strategy Technologist at Veeam and an information technology infrastructure enthusiast, with a focus on virtualization, security, and emerging technologies. Melissa is a VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX #236), and has held roles such as VMware Engineer, Systems Engineer, Solutions Architect, and Technical Marketing Engineer prior to joining Veeam. You can find Melissa on twitter @vMiss33 or at her blog https://vMiss.net.

Jamesha "Jam" Fisher is an infrastructure engineer at Splice. Jamesha has worked in the tech industry for over 15(!) years, with a special interest in security. Graduating with a degree in information assurance and security engineering, they lent their experience to operations and systems engineering at companies like Google and GitHub. In their spare time, Jamesha queers it up, along with being a maker of things musical or delicious and objects that use binary numbers.

Ride The On-Call Lightning with Adam Jacob

Adam Jacob is a Board Member, CTO and founder of Chef. Adam joins us this week to discuss his world as an on-call engineer. Find out what happens when they call in the "Mr. Wolf" of Oracle on a private jet to get the database back online. Learn about Adam's passion for Open Source while we interject our mutual interest in heavy metal.

Fear, Chaos and Pain

Common subjects in the Christopher Nolan Batman films, especially when the Joker appears. How do we avoid the moments of fear, chaos and pain in real time? By preparing for it. Today we talk with Gremlin Inc founder and CEO Kolton Andrus.

Kolton is co-founder and CEO of Gremlin. Previously, he was a Chaos Engineer at Netflix improving streaming reliability and operating the Edge services. He designed and built F.I.T., Netflix's failure injection service. Prior he improved the performance and reliability of the Amazon Retail website. At both companies he has served as a 'Call Leader', managing the resolution of company-wide incidents.

Gremlin.com

Twitter: @gremlininc

There's on-call in nearly every aspect of the tech industry, in this episode we will focus on Security.

Tanya Janca is a senior cloud advocate for Microsoft, specializing in application and cloud security; evangelizing software security and advocating for developers and operations folks alike through public speaking, her open source project OWASP DevSlop, and various forms of teaching via workshops, blogs and community events. As an ethical hacker, OWASP Project and Chapter Leader, Women in Security and Technology (WIST) chapter leader, software developer and professional computer geek of 20+ years, she is a person who is truly fascinated by the ‘science’ of computer science.  

https://twitter.com/shehackspurple

https://medium.com/@shehackspurple (blog)

DevSlop.co

Chris Short has been a proponent of open source solutions throughout his over two decades in various IT disciplines including systems, security, networks, and DevOps engineering and advocacy across the public and private sectors. He currently works on the Ansible team at Red Hat. Chris is a partially disabled US Air Force veteran living with his wife and son in Greater Metro Detroit. Chris writes about DevOps and other topics at chrisshort.net. He also runs the DevOps, Cloud Native, and open source focused newsletter DevOps’ish.

Twitter: ChrisShort

Web: https://chrisshort.net, https://devopsish.com

Welcome to the first full-length episode of The On-Call Nightmares Podcast.

Dan is a veteran of the original dotcom bubble and has since worked in a variety of environments from start-ups to global corporations, including a stints as a founder, university lecturer, and a day labourer. Today, Dan is a member of the Devopsdays Global team, and a Developer Advocate at Datadog.

Twitter: @phrawzty

A quick preview of what's to come!