Insightful conversations. Less snark.

Catharine Strauss joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss how doom scrolling lead her to a passionate career in cloud sustainability. Catharine talks about the surprising amount of carbon data creates, and her hopes for the future. She walks through a talk track and action strategy for employees who want to spearhead a sustainability effort in their own companies, as well as her hopes for Amazon’s latest development on their carbon footprint tool. Catharine also explains why it’s necessary to think in terms of the “fourth dimension” like Doc Brown in Back to the Future III when planning for cloud sustainability efforts.

Jeremy Meiss, Director of DevRel at CircleCI, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to define what DevRel is and what it isn’t. Listen as Jeremy explains where he feels DevRel is best positioned to sit in a company, as well as why it’s important to view DevRel as “just marketing” or “just product”. Jeremy also reveals how he sees the role of DevRel evolving as we face economic changes in the market, as well as how DevRel teams can connect to a sense of meaning and purpose in their work to avoid burnout.

Emily Ruppe, Solutions Engineer at Jeli.io, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss the best practices she’s discovered for effectively handling incident responses. Emily explains how she fell into incident response and why it suits her mindset, as well as the different ways she’s seen organizations handle incident response and what seems to be most effective. Emily describes how she managed to not only survive but thrive through an acquisition, why blameless root causes analysis is well intentioned but misses finer points for learning, and what she has most enjoyed about working at Jeli.io.

Aerin Booth, Founder of Cloud Sustainably, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss how they were inspired to pursue a career in cloud sustainability, and the cloud sustainability conference they’re launching this year called The State of Open. In this conversation Aerin highlights the importance of creating boundaries in the cloud to promote innovation and efficiency, drawing interesting parallels between early video games and the current state of cloud. Corey and Aerin discuss the importance and shortcomings of AWS’s focus on sustainability, and Aerin reinforces the importance of doing work that you enjoy and makes a positive difference in the world.

Chris Farris, Cloud Security Nerd at Turbot, joins Corey to discuss how he wound up in the world of DevRel at Turbot and what he sees for the future of multi-cloud security practitioners. Chris explains that while 90% of what he works on revolves around AWS, it’s important to close the gap on learning the other cloud providers because they make up more than 10% of his risk. He also reveals his major concerns about Azure, the potential of a return to on-prem for sovereign data reasons, and Oracle’s interesting approach to entering the cloud development arena.

Chris Vermilion, Senior Software Developer at Remix Labs, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss how he went from working in academia to being a remote software developer based in Maine. Chris describes the start-up ouroboros he observed and how he’s seeing many start-ups shift to solving broader problems, as well as the benefits he’s found to creating communities through Slack and annual conferences. Chris also explains why he left particle physics to live in Maine as a software developer, and the pros and cons to both lifestyles.

Alyss Noland, Head of DevRel^2 and PMM at Common Room, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss the value of community and best practices around scaling that value in the world of DevRel. Corey and Alyss discuss how DevRel is still a relatively new position, and how to show the true value of the DelRel position to other stakeholders in the company, as well as how to be a valuable asset to the developers in your community. Alyss shares best practices around understanding your customers’ needs, creating and nurturing a self-supporting community, and which metrics and activities have the most impact.

Pete Cheslock, Head of Growth and Community at AppMap, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud for their annual time-honored tradition of reflecting on and recapping re:Invent. Corey and Pete discuss how the conference has scaled since its inception and the changes they’ve seen as a result. Pete highlights the importance of storytelling throughout product launches, as well as the costs of sponsoring re:Invent and how this year was different in the Expo Hall. Pete and Corey also discuss how 2022’s conference seemed to neglect the most valuable part of re:Invent - creating opportunities and spaces for people to work and socialize together.

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.