About Richard Hartmann

Richard "RichiH" Hartmann is the Swiss Army Chainsaw at SpaceNet, leading both a greenfield datacenter build and monitoring. By night, he is involved in several FLOSS projects, a Prometheus team member, founder of OpenMetrics, and organizing various related conferences, including but not limited FOSDEM, DENOG, and Chaos Communication

Congress. 

Links Referenced: 

• https://velocityconf.com/cloud
• https://prometheus.io
• https://www.debian.org
• https://promcon.io
• https://fosdem.org
• https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next
• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/build
• https://reinvent.awsevents.com
• https://twitter.com/twitchih

About Jess Frazelle

Jessie Frazelle is a computer programmer who has worked at GitHub, Microsoft, Google, Docker and various companies, startups, even design agencies before that. She’s worked on a lot of the open source projects in the container ecosystem, she’s a top abuser of the GitHub api, and runs her own cloud from her apartment and a colo in NYC called jess cloud.

Links Referenced: 

twitter.com/jessfraz

github.com

microsoft.com

google.com

docker.com

contained.af

cncf.io

summerofcode.withgoogle.com

Joe.dev

Soul of a New Machine

github.com/Gazler/githug

About Maureen Lonergan

Maureen Lonergan joined Amazon Web Services in March of 2012 as Director of Training and Certification. Since then, Maureen has worked to build a set of programs and offerings that offer a flexible path for learners to advance their careers and for organizations to enable their teams and get more out of the cloud. Her team is responsible for building, maintaining, and delivering both classroom and digital training courses alongside an AWS Certification program to validate cloud knowledge. Education programs, including AWS Academy, aim to build a pipeline of cloud talent for the future. Over the course of the last 7 years, the organization has delivered training in over 50 Countries and hundreds of thousands of learners. Prior to Amazon, Maureen was the Senior Director for Partner Enablement at VMware where she built training and enablement programs and delivered training to hundreds of thousands of individuals across a channel of 30,000 partners. She’s also served as the Director of Technical Training and Enablement at Symantec and the Director of Education Services at Ariba.

Some of the highlights of the show include: 

• Where to get started learning about the cloud
• The variety of AWS certifications offered
• Why certifications are valuable for job prospects
• The work that goes into designing the AWS training courses
• Some partners where you can access training

Links:

• https://www.aws.training
• https://aws.amazon.com
• https://aws.amazon.com/training/course-descriptions/
• https://aws.amazon.com/training/learning-paths/
• https://www.coursera.org/aws
• https://aws.amazon.com/training/path-cloudpractitioner/
• https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/training-events/training-certifications/certifications/expert/ccie-routing-switching.html
• https://www.edx.org/school/aws
• https://www.coursera.org/aws

Some of the highlights of the show include: 

• The benefits of RoboMaker in code deployment
• How cloud computation frees up local resources 
• Using machine learning to improve robot reaction
• How great a name RoboMaker is
• Amazon’s commitment to the enduring API

Links:

• https://aws.amazon.com/robomaker/
• http://www.ros.org
• https://aws.amazon.com/deepracer/

Some of the highlights of the show include: 

• Implications for migrating to AWS
• Why and how for using Amazon vs hardware
• The positive effects of mentoring for both the mentor and mentee
• Technical vs Management tracks at a software company
• Career advice for women in the tech field

Links:

• https://www.digitalocean.com/ 
• https://sendgrid.com/
• DO.co/screaming 
• http://blog.dbsmasher.com/
• https://github.com/

The job market in the AWS world is complex and often confusing to both employers and employees. Wouldn’t it be great to have over 43,000 data points to draw a larger picture of the market and where you fall in line?

Today, we are talking to Kate Powers who walks us through the AWS Salary Survey from Jefferson Frank and discusses some interesting insights as well as real world examples of the findings.

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Years ago, if you wanted to launch an Internet company or Web application, you had to own necessary hardware. Now, the economics have changed drastically with the ease of Cloud computing. It’s still a new industry that people are trying to figure out, especially when it comes to cost and optimization.

Today, we’re talking to Dann Berg, a Cloud ops analyst at Datadog. He helps others understand and lower the cost of Cloud operations. Dann is a detective who is dedicated to figuring out why a company’s Cloud bill is so high.

Some of the highlights of the show include:

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If you use MongoDB, then you may be feeling ecstatic right now. Why? Amazon Web Services (AWS) just released DocumentDB with MongoDB compatibility. Users who switch from MongoDB to DocumentDB can expect improved speed, scalability, and availability.

Today, we’re talking to Shawn Bice, vice president of non-relational databases at AWS, and Rahul Pathak, general manager of big data, data lakes, and blockchain at AWS . They share AWS’ overall database strategy and how to choose the best tool for what you want to build.

Some of the highlights of the show include:

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Does operating system (OS) choice even matter anymore to most people? Especially with the emergence of serverless and containers? Debian may not see its name up in lights much these days, but it’s still very much front, center, and relevant to what people are doing in Cloud environments.

Today, we’re talking to Elana Hashman, a Python packager and Debian developer. Everything inside a base operating system may not be interesting to end users, but such a collection of components is necessary to create a functioning Linux system.

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Companies can find working in the Cloud quite complicated. However, it’s a lot easier than it used to be, especially when trying to comply with regulations. That’s because Cloud providers have evolved and now offer more out-of-the-box services that focus on regulation requirements and compliance.

Today, we’re talking to Elliot Murphy. He’s the founder of Kindly Ops, which provides consulting advice to companies dealing with regulated workloads in the Cloud.

Some of the highlights of the show include:

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