Insightful conversations. Less snark.

Tim Gonda, Technical Director of Cloud at Praetorian, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss the complexities of exposing vulnerabilities in the world of cloud security. How does large amounts of technical debt impact vulnerabilities? When you’ve found a vulnerability, how do you let the affected company know in a way that will ensure they prioritize and address it? And why is it that when something happens, it’s (seemingly) always cloud security? Tim answers all these questions and more in this episode of Screaming in the Cloud.

Matt Margolis, Head of Community at Lawtrades, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss the life of a professional shitposter. Matt, who Corey discovered on TikTok, reveals how he went from being an attorney to being an attorney with a thriving online audience that laughs at his jokes. Matt and Corey discuss how much of a difference it makes to be able to bring your whole self to work, as well as how they found themselves outside of the traditional way of doing things in their chosen professions. Matt also discusses his role at Lawtrades, where attorneys are able to find that kind of freedom from the “old guard” and companies are able to get legal expertise based on their needs and budget.

Taylor Barnett, Staff Developer Advocate at PlanetScale, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss building trust and working across departments in the world of DevRel. Taylor explores the interesting intersection of post-pandemic DevRel events, and how the fact that most DevRel professionals are new to the role impacts the way metrics are interpreted. Taylor also reveals how DevRel relates to sales, marketing, and support to drive not only trust and adoption, but also revenue. Corey and Taylor also explore how the ROI of DevRel activities such as keynotes is often hard to measure but important to understand.

Gene Kim is an author who writes about topics like DevOps and the digital age. His works include The Phoenix Project, The Unicorn Project, and The DevOps Handbook. Prior to picking up a pen, Gene served as CTO and founder of Tripwire, was the founder and director of research at IT Process Institute, and worked as an independent director of the Energy Sector Security Consortium in Portland, Oregon. He’s also the founder of the DevOps Enterprise Summit. Join Corey and Gene as they discuss what it was like to revisit the Parts Unlimited world for The Unicorn Project, where Corey stands on the should I stick around or should I leave the company spectrum, the Five Ideals, how Corey helped Gene zero in on his core audience for The Unicorn Project, what Gene admires about the DevOps Enterprise Summit community, the tremendous impact that Gene believes the DevOps community will have on the future, and more. This Holiday Replay edition of Screaming in the Cloud was originally aired March 4th, 2020.

Dr. Christina Maslach, PhD, is a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley, where she’s taught for nearly 50 years. During that time, she also had an eight-year stint as Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning. Dr. Maslach holds a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard and earned her doctor of philosophy degree in psychology from Stanford University. She’s also written several books about burnout at work. Join Corey and Dr. Maslach as they talk about employee burnout, how burnout is common in people-facing positions and why it’s not a sign of weakness, how burnout is an occupational risk factor but is not by itself a mental health issue, how burnout can lead to physical health problems and mental health issues, the impact the pandemic has had on employee burnout, how some folks think burnout is the malady of the century, how people are working harder at home to increase the chances they keep their jobs, the genesis of the term “burnout,” and more. This Holiday Replay episode of Screaming in the Cloud originally aired June 29th, 2021.

Rob Zuber is the CTO of CircleCI, makers of a full-service CI/CD platform. Before that, he co-founded Copious, a social marketplace built around people and their interests, and Yoohoot, a mobile advertising company that was acquired by Appconomy. Join Corey and Rob as they discuss the ins and outs of continuous integration and continuous delivery and touch upon why it’s hard to scale CI/CD, why many companies end up focusing on what’s called undifferentiated heavy lifting and why that’s a bad thing, what keeps AWS awake at night (hint: something to do with money), why at the end of the day, it’s all about the product, how developer relations is really a marketing endeavor, how CircleCI is a team of engineers solving problems for another team of engineers, why distributed teams are becoming the norm, and more. This Holiday Replay edition of Screaming in the Cloud was originally aired on February 12th, 2020.

Jack Roehrig, Technology Evangelist at Uptycs, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss his love for the cybersecurity space and what made him so passionate about Uptycs that he became their technology evangelist. Jack illustrates the importance of combining security and compliance by sharing compelling stories from his days as a CISO, and also shares why he views AWS as an amazing innovation that happened to sacrificed governance. Jack also explains why he feels consumers need to be demanding proof of security and how they can go about doing that.

Join Corey and Kelsey as they explore the journey that led Kelsey to Kubernetes; where Corey feels Kubernetes falls short; how Kubernetes is just another step in the evolution of technology, with more to follow in the future; why Corey used to argue against the cloud; why Kelsey believes Kubernetes makes hyperspecialization worthwhile; Kelsey’s general feelings about multi-cloud; what Kelsey believes is the biggest thing that’s misunderstood about Kubernetes; what the future of Kubernetes looks like; and more. This holiday replay edition was originally aired February 19th, 2020.

Brian Hall, VP of Product Marketing at Google Cloud, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss the true meaning of digital transformation, where he sees us being in that process, and the approach Google Cloud is taking to cloud services. Listen in as Brian explains why he still sees cloud as being in its early days, and the approach Google Cloud has taken to unexpectedly delight its customers and gain its customers’ enthusiastic recommendation. Brian also reveals why calculating a Target Addressable Market for Google Cloud is nearly impossible, as the possible applications for cloud have barely scratched the surface.

Harry Perks, Principal Product Manager at Sysdig, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss how Sysdig is addressing challenges in the observability space. Harry describes the challenges he’s seen companies facing in the world of cloud lately, such as figuring out the costs of servicing customers, silos being created in an attempt to solve problems and calculate costs more accurately, and more. Harry also speaks to the impact Kubernetes adoption has on organizations, from costs to operational concerns, to ensuring end users can receive value from the end product.

Simen Svale Skogsrud, CTO & Co-Founder of Sanity.io, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss how Sanity.io is simplifying multi-cloud strategy. Simen reveals how they came up with the concept of a Content Lake, as well as the unique approach they’ve taken to architecting workflows for their clients. Simen and Corey discuss the phenomenon of old technology being made new (and hopefully improved) again, and how you can hate a technology while also appreciating the benefits it provides. Simen also describes the best practices Sanity has developed around architecting a multi-cloud approach.

Ram Sriharsha, VP of Engineering and R&D at Pinecone, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss Pinecone’s creation of Vector Databases, the challenges they solve, and why their customer adoption has seen such a rapid rise. Ram reveals the the common data management problems customers solve using Pinecone, as well as why he’s more focused on execution than concerned about cloud providers offering competing services. Ram also walks us through his quintessential Silicon Valley career journey and how it led him to joining Pinecone.