Cloud Gossip

Guest Bio:Marcia Villalba is Senior Developer Advocate for AWS Serverless, and a public speaker.She’s also a very active content creator, she posts weekly on her “FooBar” youtube channel content related to serverless and the cloud. She also has a separate channel in Spanish called “Marcia y La Nube” and is also the host of the Podcast “Charlas Técnicas de AWS”.For the past 20 years, she has been designing and developing software. Marcia worked in all the different stages of building software that scales and performs. She has deep knowledge of building applications in the cloud, with serverless and using DevOps processes.Her passion is designing systems that can take full advantage of the cloud and embrace the DevOps culture. She writes regularly in the AWS News Blog about new upcoming AWS launches.  Timestamps:0:56 Speakers introduction4:00 Customer engagement6:44 Community feedback8:25  Events flexibility post pandemic18:10 Serverless services in AWS23:20 Things to learn in the Serverless space25:34 The most exciting tech things29:12 Favourite Sci-fi tech30:34 Diversity and inclusion32:45 Lifting others up35:45 Community36:53 Episode Wrap-upLinks mentioned in the episode:Pink programming: https://www.pinkprogramming.se/en/AWS restart: https://aws.amazon.com/training/restart/AWS CDK community https://cdk.dev/ Free codecamp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/Connect with Marcia on:https://marcia.dev/https://www.youtube.com/c/FooBar_codeshttps://twitter.com/mavi888uyhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/marciavillalbaConnect with Cloud Gossip on:https://www.cloudgossip.nethttps://www.linkedin.com/company/cloud-gossiphttps://twitter.com/CloudGossipnetConnect with Annie on:https://twitter.com/AnnieTalvastohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/talvasto/Connect with Karl on:https://twitter.com/karlgotshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/karlots/ 

Guest Bio:Matt Stratton is a Staff Developer Advocate at Pulumi, founder and co-host of the popular Arrested DevOps podcast, and the global chair of the DevOpsDays set of conferences. Matt has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and cloud engineering focused events worldwide. He’s passionate about helping organizations use awesome tools to focus on what makes them special and drive relevant cultural change. He truly believe that DevOps can revolutionize IT, or at least make it more fun to go to work.  Matt lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Diet Coke. Matt is the keeper of the Thought Leaderboard for the DevOps Party Games online game show and you can find him on Twitter at @mattstratton. Quote“Things that are meant for machines have them be for machines. Json is not supposed to be read by humans or much less written by humans.”-Matt Stratton - Timestamps:0:18 Speaker Introduction1:35 Returning to in person conferences4:59 Friendships during the pandemic6:31 What does Matt’s average day looks like?11:40 Conferences: virtual only vs in person20:28 Pulumi approach to IaC24:48 What should developers learn next?27:33 Future of Tech29:52 Favourite Sci-fi Tech and changes31:54 Diversity and inclusion37:26 How to lift others up39:09 Community42:16 Episode Wrap upLearn more about the DevOps Days community at https://devopsdays.org/. Connect with Matt on:https://speaking.mattstratton.com/https://twitter.com/mattstrattonhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mattstratton/https://github.com/mattstratton Connect with Cloud Gossip on:https://www.cloudgossip.nethttps://www.linkedin.com/company/cloud-gossiphttps://twitter.com/CloudGossipnetConnect with Annie on:https://twitter.com/AnnieTalvastohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/talvasto/Connect with Karl on:https://twitter.com/karlgotshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/karlots/

Guest BioChristos Matskas is a Senior Program Manager working as a Developer Advocate for the Microsoft Identity Division. His role involves helping developers write more secure and robust software, leveraging the power of Identity and Cloud.Before joining Microsoft, he was a successful entrepreneur collaborating with companies such as MarkIT, Lockheed Martin, and Barclays. He routinely works with the Azure Active Directory, MS Graph, and Managed Identities and he’s got 15 yrs of experience writing Software on the .NET stack.Christos contributes regularly to numerous OSS projects and works closely with the developer community to make the space bigger and better. He’s also a dad, husband, speaker, and passionate streamer.Timestamps0:45 Speakers Introduction1:37 Christos typical day3:12 The transformation of Cloud Advocacy7:08 Which accounts to follow on TikTok/Discord8:51 External and Internal communication13:21 Managed Identities19:47 Microsoft.Identity.Web Library23:47 Securing Cloud Identity in the future29:57 Managed Identity in Cosmos DB32:29 Future of Tech37:30 Diversity and inclusion40:49 Community42:05 Episode Wrap-upConnect with Christos on:https://cmatskas.comhttps://twitter.com/christosmatskashttps://www.linkedin.com/in/christosmatskas/https://www.instagram.com/cmatskas/?hl=enhttps://github.com/cmatskasConnect with Cloud Gossip on:https://www.cloudgossip.nethttps://www.linkedin.com/company/cloud-gossiphttps://twitter.com/CloudGossipnetConnect with Annie on:https://twitter.com/AnnieTalvastohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/talvasto​/Connect with Karl on:https://twitter.com/karlgotshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/karlots​/Thanks for listening to Cloud Gossip! You can find us from our website CloudGossip.net. Please leave us a review and subscribe to us at iTunes, Google, or Spotify!

Guest Bio:Lucas Kaldström is a Kubernetes upstream contributor, KubeCon keynote speaker and a CNCF ambassador.In 2015 he got inspired by Google to work on containers and started contributing to the open-source Kubernetes community.He currently works with Weaveworks as a contractor, sharing his tech solutions and expertise. He received several offers to move to the Bay Area but he is aiming at studying more and keep growing in his native country of Finland.Lucas is very passionate about diversity and inclusion, ethics, and sustainability and he’s currently learning more about how to implement those to the best degree possible.He will share his in-depth knowledge of Kubernetes, as well as plenty of anecdotes about its past, present, and future. Timestamps:0:44Speakers introduction1:34  Lucas' background story3:10 Lucas' role5:45 Who are the Kubernetes contributors?9:56 What do the Kubernetes contributors do?12:54 Special interest group19:39 Working groups22:43 The decision-making process27:28 Lucas' past work29:55  How Kubernetes works33:06 Joining the Kubernetes community35:19 Kubernetes core values39:19 Future of Tech56:37 Top 3 upcoming CNC projects1:03:00 Sci-fi Tech1:05:00 Diversity and Inclusion1:13:00 Community shout-outs1:15:00 Episode Wrap upConnect with Lucas:https://github.com/luxashttps://twitter.com/kubernetesonarmhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/luxas/Links mentioned in the episode:Lucas' and Nikhita's community Keynote: Getting Started in the Kubernetes Community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bho4miiByP0Goto 2019 - Why Open Source Firmware is Important - Jessie Frazelle: https://youtu.be/mUTx61t443AOpen Compute Project: www.opencompute.org Oxide: https://oxide.computer/Rust Programming  Language: https://www.rust-lang.org/Complete rewrite of the storage system: https://github.com/weaveworks/libgitops/pull/46Flux - The GitOps Family of projects: https://fluxcd.io/Nykarleby innovation center in Finland: https://www.nykarlebyinnovationcenter.fi/ People mentioned in the episode:https://twitter.com/jessfrazhttps://twitter.com/jbedahttps://twitter.com/monadichttps://twitter.com/bgrant0607 Connect with Cloud Gossip on:https://www.cloudgossip.nethttps://www.linkedin.com/company/cloud-gossiphttps://twitter.com/CloudGossipnetConnect with Annie on:https://twitter.com/AnnieTalvastohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/talvasto​/Connect with Karl on:https://twitter.com/karlgotshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/karlots​/Thanks for listening to Cloud Gossip! You can find us from our website CloudGossip.net. Please leave us a review and subscribe to us at iTunes, Google, or Spotify!

Guest bioHenni Roini is a marketing manager at Hubspot, in Dublin.She’s passionate about providing excellent customer experiences by implementing cohesive strategies inside and outside the organization.She’s a Full-stack marketing professional skilled in managing and growing new businesses and projects from startup to success, specializing in SaaS marketing.Her expertise includes online marketing, sales, and marketing alignment, co-marketing, business development, conversion optimization, lead generation, and project management.Henni is originally from Finland, where she had the chance to interact with startup communities such as Slush, Startuplifers, and more.Quote“I feel that marketing should really work with the full flywheel.So what this means is that you should be working with sales and service on making sure that your organization is aligned internally, so that you can actually present that unified customer experience externally.” Henni RoiniTimestamps:0:50 Speakers introduction1:49 What does SaaS Marketing mean?3:13 Henni's role4:17 What is Hubspot?5:45 Marketing at Hubspot10:40 Hubspot Academy13:54 What’s enjoyable about SaaS Marketing?16:07 Key skills to work in SaaS as a marketer17:51 The marketing space in the organization20:07 What is enablement content?26:15 Henni's favorite new tech29:00 Henni's favorite Sci-fi tech30:20 Diversity and inclusion31:55 How to lift others up33:42 Community shout-outs35:02 Episode Wrap-upConnect with Henni on:https://twitter.com/henniroinihttps://www.linkedin.com/in/henniroiniLinks mentioned in the Episode:“How to buy cloud” Episode**:** https://cloudgossip.net/episodes/how-to-buy-cloudHubSpot academy course: inbound marketing https://academy.hubspot.com/courses/inboundGong software: https://www.gong.io/CX Spotlight event: https://cxspotlight.com/A startup community in Finland https://www.slush.org/Connect with Cloud Gossip on:https://www.cloudgossip.nethttps://www.linkedin.com/company/cloud-gossiphttps://twitter.com/CloudGossipnetConnect with Annie on:https://twitter.com/AnnieTalvastohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/talvasto​/Connect with Karl on:https://twitter.com/karlgotshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/karlots​/Thanks for listening to Cloud Gossip! You can find us from our website CloudGossip.net. Please leave us a review and subscribe to us at iTunes, Google, or Spotify!

Martyn Coupland is a Principal Solution Architect at Ensono, Azure MVP, and DevOps Ambassador at DevOps Institute, as well as an author, speaker, and blogger.Martyn is a regular speaker at conferences and user groups, published author, and has previously worked for a Microsoft Azure managed service provider leading engineering teams.He works with clients on their Microsoft Azure deployments, works on creative solutions to unleash the power of cloud for clients, and speaks to them about the adoption of DevOps.He’s been in technology all of his working life, ever since leaving college, he has worked in various industries and worked in a number of roles from a Service Desk Analyst, Programmer, Systems Engineer, Consultant, Architect, and Senior Manager.Martyn's his career, like many others, started on the service desk in IT, performing first-line support. Quote“Whoever you are, whatever your background is, whether you’re male, female, whatever your religion is, it doesn’t matter...whatever you identify yourself as you’ll build yourself a successful and strong career by being yourself. Because being yourself is what makes you “you” at the end of the day .” -  Martyn CouplandTimestamps0:44 Guest introduction2:19 DevOps Institute4:02 Martyn's clients5:43 Mainframes6:59 Martyn's definition of DevOps11:21 The evolution of the DevOps16:45 The impact of DevOps in the industry22:41 The impact of DevOps on Software Developers27:12 The impact of DevOps on Technology31:20 Cloud-Native Philosophy39:56 Future of tech44:53 Martin's favorite Sci-Fi Tech46:54 Diversity and Inclusion51:39 How to improve equality53:42 Community56:36 Episode wrap-upConnect with Martyn on Twitter: @mrcoups Links mentioned in the Episode: DevOps Squared Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devops-squared/id1509472914Jessica Deen’s video Developing With CONFIDENCE:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQcwp4cMHGEAgile Manifesto:https://agilemanifesto.org/ CloudFamily:https://cloudfamily.infoConnect with Cloud Gossip on: https://www.cloudgossip.nethttps://www.linkedin.com/company/cloud-gossiphttps://twitter.com/CloudGossipnetConnect with Annie on: https://twitter.com/AnnieTalvastohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/talvasto​/Connect with Karl on: https://twitter.com/karlgotshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/karlots​/Thanks for listening to Cloud Gossip! You can find us from our website CloudGossip.net. Please leave us a review and subscribe to us at iTunes, Google, or Spotify!

We are going to learn about who benefits from using Microsoft Graph, what changes and advantages the platform brings to the table, and how it evolved over time.Fabian is going to talk about why he believes more developers should add Graph to their skill-set, why he likes Python, and how modern-day software development is shaping the industry. We are going to hear his thoughts about the future of tech, FTL travel, diversity, and inclusion, and remote work. Guest Bio:Fabian Williams​ is a ​Senior Program Manager on the Microsoft Graph Team at Microsoft. He is a 7x MVP awardee beginning with his work with the SharePoint product line that dates to the 2003 release.Fabian holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Information System “Magna-Cum-Laude” from Strayer University, Washington D.C. and his Masters in Computer Information Technology studies at the Johns Hopkins University Carey School for Business in Columbia, Maryland.He likes to engage with the SharePoint PnP community and share his expertise with others, with a strong focus on diversity and inclusion.You may find him on Twitter at the @fabianwilliam​s handle and his blog is http://www.fabiangwilliams.com. Quote “For people who are in my position: turn around and look back to see all of the people that are trying to get up the ladder as well, and extend a helping hand.”​​Fabian Williams  Timestamps: 1:24 Guest Introduction2:18 The Program Manager role5:00 Fabian’s daily work routine9:10 Introduction to Microsoft Graph11:13 Who are Graph’s users?15:45 The benefits of Graph17:45 Modern-day developers21:06 Should devs learn Graph in the future?22:05 Work from home hacks with Graph25:21 Fabian's favorite current technologies right now28:22 Fabian's favorite future tech29:47 Diversity and Inclusion34:20 Community shout outs Connect with Fabian on ​https://twitter.com/fabianwilliam​shttps://www.fabiangwilliams.com/h​ttps://www.linkedin.com/in/fabiangwilliams/h​ttps://github.com/fabianwilliamsLinks mentioned in the Episode: SharePoint PnP community: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/community/communit​yBaltimore SharePoint user group: https://www.meetup.com/baltimoresharepoin​tFree LinkedIn Learning course on unconscious bias - no LinkedIn account or signup needed: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/unconscious-bias/welcome Connect with Cloud Gossip on: https://www.cloudgossip.nethttps://www.linkedin.com/company/cloud-gossiphttps://twitter.com/CloudGossipnetConnect with Annie on: https://twitter.com/AnnieTalvastohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/talvasto​/Connect with Karl on: https://twitter.com/karlgotshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/karlots​/Thanks for listening to Cloud Gossip! You can find us from our website CloudGossip.net. Please leave us a review and subscribe to us at iTunes, Google, or Spotify!

We’re going to learn about KEDA and CNCF Sandbox projects, what they are and how they work, and learn about some of Tom’s insights in the industry. He’s going to talk about how GitHub is helping the world of Open Source projects and how he uses the platform to engage with the users. We’re going to hear his opinions about the future of tech as well as discussing how we can use what we already have in a better way. Enjoy the episode and don’t miss the links and resources that Tom shared with us, you can find them at the bottom of the page. Guest Bio: Tom Kerkhove is the creator of Promitor.io​  , he works for Codit as an Azure Architect and he’s​ also a maintainer of KEDA and Arcus as well as a GitHub Star and a CNCF Ambassador. On top of this, he’s also a member of the AZUG crew and he has been a Microsoft Azure MVP & Azure Advisor since 2014. He’s very passionate about Open Source Projects and Tech in general and he’s very committed to constantly improving them going forward. You can find Tom on GitHub where he’s very active and you can read the articles that he posts on his blog on blog.tomkerkhove.b​e where he shares his expertise with the community.​       Quote “Let’s not worry about the next big thing, but let’s make sure we use the current technology at its best .”​ Tom Kerkhove​             Timestamps: (0:00) Episode Summary(1:42) Tom Introduces himself  (3:07) Tom's Role and his clients (5:05)What is Keda?(9:46)  How is to work on Open-Source projects(12:55) How to contribute to Open-Source projects(17:49) Learning about CNCF Sandbox projects(20:24) How Tom manages his time(25:07) The engagement with users explained(28:30) Github improvements for support(32:10) Tom talks about the changes in Tech(38:08) Tom’s favorite Sci-Fi Tech(39:58) Talk about diversity and inclusion(41:32) Advice to empower others(43:20) Community shout out(44:58) Episode wrap up and goodbyes Connect with Tom on: https://twitter.com/TomKerkhovehttps://blog.tomkerkhove.be/https://github.com/tomkerkhovehttps://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5000479Promitor and KEDA projects in Github: https://github.com/tomkerkhove/promitorhttps://github.com/kedacore/kedaLinks mentioned in the Episode:https://github.com/domaindrivendev/Swashbuckle.WebApi/network/dependents?package_id=UGFja 2FnZS0xNTY2NDc2NDg%3Dhttps://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-a ccount/maintaining-ownership-continuity-of-your-user-accounts-repositorieshttps://github.com/zroubalikhttps://github.com/sponsors/community Connect with Cloud Gossip on: https://www.cloudgossip.nethttps://www.linkedin.com/company/cloud-gossiphttps://twitter.com/CloudGossipnetConnect with Annie on: https://twitter.com/AnnieTalvastohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/talvasto​/Connect with Karl on: https://twitter.com/karlgotshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/karlots​/Thanks for listening to Cloud Gossip! You can find us from our website CloudGossip.net. Please leave us a review and subscribe to us at iTunes, Google, or Spotify! 

Isidora Katanic is going talk to us about how to grow a strong community, how successful events are organized, her tips and tricks to give great online presentations, and the importance of diversity and inclusion.She’s also going to share her opinion on how Covid-19 affected the conference world, and how these 2020 changes encouraged more people to join tech and use it in everyday life.Isidora is going to talk about some of her future goals and share with us her favorite Community Projects as well as explaining to us what the “Head in the Cloud, Heart in the Community” video series is all about.Guest Bio: Isidora Katanic ​is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and Co-Host of the video series "Head in the cloud, Heart in the community". She’s also the Co-Founder of the event management company districtUP - organizing IT community conferences Experts Live Europe and Experts Live Switzerland focused on Microsoft cloud, data center, security, and modern workplace technologies. Isidora engages with the Microsoft community and travels around the world to organize, speak, and attend conferences to learn, connect, and share with others. In 2020 Isidora has been awarded the #AzureHeroes badge in the category of Inclusive Leadership. She has also been selected as the 1st Cloud Community Champion, a community-driven initiative.Quote “When you think about it, community stands for a common-unity. So I think the importance is to find people who actually have something in common, the power and success are to get those people to work together. To form a unity together.”​​Isidora Katanic Timestamps: (0:00) Episode Summary(1:43) Guest Intro(2:51) The meaning of Community(3:42) How to build a successful tech community(5:12) The power of storytelling(7:13) How to grow a Twitter community(10:50) How to keep people interested in your event(13:32) What Isidora finds appealing in an event(16:38) The conference world post-Covid-19(19:53) Tips on doing online presentations(23:40) Top 3 tech things Isidora is passionate about(26:49) Isidora's favorite fantasy tech(28:58) Diversity and Inclusion(31:54) How to empower others(33:07) Isidora's future community projects(34:09) Shout out to the community(35:49) Episode wrap up and goodbyesLinks:Connect with Isidora on: https://www.twitter.com/isidorakatanichttps://www.linkedin.com/in/isidora-katanic-0b479534/https://www.isidorakatanic.com/video-seriesIsidora's video series, Head in the cloud, Heart in the community: https://www.isidorakatanic.com/video-seriesLists of female speakers:https://www.womenonstage.net/https://github.com/adipola/women-tech-speakers-organizersConnect with Cloud Gossip on: https://www.cloudgossip.nethttps://www.linkedin.com/company/cloud-gossiphttps://twitter.com/CloudGossipnetTech calender: https://festivetechcalendar.com/Connect with Annie on: https://twitter.com/AnnieTalvastohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/talvasto​/Connect with Karl on: https://twitter.com/karlgotshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/karlots​/

Adi Polak is going to share her expertise and thoughts on Machine Learning, Big Data, and the future trends in the industry. She’s also gonna talk about how these complex things work, the challenges they present, and some of the buzzwords typical of her industry.Adi’s gonna share with us which tasks she performs on a daily basis, which personality traits are beneficial for her work, and the differences between the different job roles in her field.We’re also are gonna learn more about Adi’s involvement in the community, her approach to teaching and learning, and how this can make a difference in people’s lives. Guest Bio: Adi Polak is​ a senior software engineer and a developer advocate at Microsoft working on​  Azure, where she focuses on distributed systems, big data analysis, machine learning at scale, and functional programming. She does extensive work in the Big Data and Functional programming communities. Adi has an extensive background in software development. She holds an M.sc in Software and Information Systems Engineering from Ben Gurion University, during her studies she worked with IBM and Deutsch Telekom Research labs on various projects where she gained expertise in ML. Adi was nominated to be 1 of 25 influential women in Software Development by Apiumhub. Quote "It takes some dedicated work, but It takes strategic work sometimes as well. So it's not always​about working hard, it's also about being strategic on the things that you decide to pursue.​"  Adi Polak Timestamps:(0:44) Speakers and podcast introduction(3:05) Microsoft activity in the Open Source field(4:25) How Adi deals with Open Source work(8:05)  Differences between big data and machine learning(12:33) The newest things in the industry(15:43) Versioning challenges(17:15) Different Job Roles and what makes them unique(21:35) How Adi approaches learning(26:05) How Adi teaches others(29:08) How Covid-19 has changed things(33:11) Personality traits that Adi finds beneficial in her role(36:19) 3 things in tech that Adi's is excited about now(37:42) Adi's favorite fantasy technology(39:57) Adi's involvement in diversity projects(43:33) How to help and encourage others(46:46) Adi's shout-out to a special communityLinks:Thanks for listening to Cloud Gossip! You can find us from our website CloudGossip.net. Please leave us a review and subscribe to us at iTunes, Google, or Spotify!Connect with Cloud Gossip on: https://www.cloudgossip.nethttps://www.linkedin.com/company/cloud-gossiphttps://twitter.com/CloudGossipnetConnect with Adi on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adi-polak-68548365/Connect with Annie on: https://twitter.com/AnnieTalvastohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/talvasto​/Connect with Karl on: https://twitter.com/karlgotshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/karlots​/