Insightful conversations. Less snark.

Kevin Miller, General Manager of Amazon S3, joins Corey to discuss the hard work and technical magic that has gone into S3’s evolution and the charity t-shirt fundraiser Corey is running featuring S3 as the eighth wonder of the world. Kevin explains the vital role testing plays in keeping S3 running and evolving successfully, and the astronomical number of states they must be ready to face at any given time. Kevin also reveals the benefits of Intelligent Tiering, his thoughts on using S3 as a database, and what really excites him about the transformations that are happening as a result of his work at S3.

Victor Grenu, Independent AWS Architect at Zoph, joins Corey to discuss his army of helpful Twitter bots and his multiple entrepreneurial endeavors. Victor explains why and how he created Twitter bots worth turning on your notifications for, how he enjoys being an independent AWS consultant, as well as the unique advantages he experiences being based in Paris. Victor also reveals his foray into the world of creating a SaaS startup, https://unusd.cloud/ and his small bets approach to create something simple and useful.

Mike Julian, CEO and Co-Founder of The Duckbill Group, joins Corey to discuss their evolving venture into the world of consulting and what he’s learned along the way. Mike discusses the new book he’s writing to help aspiring consultants launch their second career, as well as the mistakes he’s made in his own career and how he’s learned from them. Mike reveals the challenges of scaling from being an independent consultant to managing an entire consulting firm, and provides insight into what new consultants don’t know they don’t know when going into business for themselves.

Richard Hartmann, Director of Community at Grafana Labs, joins Corey to discuss the evolution of cloud services and the infrastructure behind them. Whether it’s how monitoring became observability, or how predicting server breakdowns at scale has become more of a science than simply grunting and pointing, Richard provides a balanced perspective on what users actually want and why they want it. Richard also reveals how pricing impacts community-building efforts, creating psychological safety for your users to promote long-term adoption, and why not optimizing your data makes about as much sense as storing 10,000 copies of Lord of the Rings in your living room.

Corey is joined by Michael Clark, Director of Threat Research at Sysdig, to discuss the refreshingly non-salesy approach of the 2022 Sysdig Cloud-Native Threat Report. Corey and Michael discuss the perception of cryptomining in your cloud instance being seen as more of a nuisance than the expensive threat it is, as well as other threats out there today and how they gauge the severity of a threat against more than just monetary cost. Michael also reveals how the team was put together to compile the report and why they intentionally moved away from packaging it as a thinly-veiled marketing tool and towards creating a report of substantive value.

Corey is joined by Steve Rice, Principal Product Manager at AWS, to discuss AWS AppConfig and how it’s helping developers test and scale new releases through dynamic configuration. Steve reveals what led to the development and release of AppConfig internally at Amazon, as well as the typical adoption journey of AppConfig. He and Corey discuss the right time and point of scale to implement feature flagging, how feature flags benefit engineers, and best practices around rolling out feature flagging.

Corey is joined by Nipun Agarwal, Senior Vice President of MySQL HeatWave Development at Oracle, to discuss the release of MySQL HeatWave and how it will benefit users among the sea of database offerings on AWS. Nipun reveals why Oracle decided to develop HeatWave, how HeatWave is providing meaningful cost savings to users, and how HeatWave has been optimized for the cloud. Nipun explains how they’ve lowered the barriers to entry for new users of HeatWave, and Oracle’s focus on implementing customer feedback when developing new offerings.

Corey is joined by Thomas Hazel, Founder & CTO of ChaosSearch or as Corey remembers them, CHAOSSEARCH. Thomas and Corey dive into how ChaosSearch’s messaging has evolved over the years and why their data indexing solution has always made sense regardless of their brand evolution. Corey and Thomas also discuss how to solve for data analytics costs by using data indexing, the variance in how different companies use data to respond to security breaches, and the ultimate importance of putting yourself in your customer’s shoes.

Corey is joined by Donovan Brady, Director of Solutions Architecture at Logicworks, who reveals why companies move to the cloud and the growth opportunities that come along with the cost savings. Corey and Donovan discuss how the business value of cloud migration is often not measured, resulting in a majority of companies having no visibility into the benefits received, and why providing an outside perspective through consulting results in surprisingly far-reaching solutions.

Amy Tobey, Senior Principal Engineer at Equinix joins Corey to dive into the controversial idea of cloud repatriation and the complexity of running data centers. Amy explains how communication matters in regards to affecting change at a macro level, and the reasoning behind her position that building something from scratch should almost always take place in the cloud. Amy gives some details about Equinix Metal, Equinix’s bare metal service provider, and Corey and Amy discuss the power of storytelling in the context of building and working with tech.

Shinji Kim, CEO and Co-Founder of Select Star, joins Corey to talk about the fast-growing world of data discovery. Shinji presents the question that Select Star answers, “How discoverable is your data?” and explains how Select Star is differentiating itself in a space where new players are appearing all the time. Corey and Shinji talk about the needs of data discovery clients ranging from “I need a database” to “I have too many databases”, and how vital it is to understand what data is actually being used to avoid overpaying for data storage or worse - deleting data that’s vital to your organization. Listen in to find out why data discovery is becoming more essential and the impact of making better use of your data.

Corey is joined by Scott Sellers, CEO & Co-Founder of Azul, to discuss the current state of the Java ecosystem and how Java is changing to adapt to a cloud-native world. Scott describes how he transitioned from hardware to the world of Java software, Java’s proprietary-to-open-source origin story, and why Java continues to be fundamental among newer programming languages. Scott explains how Azul is creating business value in an open source environment by “creating a better Java”, and also describes how Azul is helping customers address The Cloud Paradox, where the cost of operating in the cloud can be almost as plentiful as the benefit.