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

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 Speak

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

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

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 Marke

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

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 o

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 wh

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 Mi

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 Informati

Mike Martin is going to talk to us about his role in the company, how ISVs and the Microsoft OCP operate, his thoughts on the future of tech, and the importance of diversity and inclusion in IT and outside of it. He’s also going to share some key advice to future startups and scale-ups and he’ll explain his approach to software creation and what he believes are the key factors companies should focus on. Mike’s going to talk about how he communicates with his team and how to provide constructive criticism in a way that encourages others. We’re also going to learn more about Mike’s favorite communities, the importance of Ecology, and some of his personal experiences working with ISVs. Guest Bio: Mike Martin​ works for Microsoft Western Europe as Cloud Solution Architect for ISV's with a focus​ on the Microsoft Cloud Platform. He’s been active in the IT industry for more than 20 years and has performed almost all types of job profiles, going from coaching and leading a team to architecting and systems design and

Today on the show: we give you the vocabulary and tools to buy cloud in an intelligent way. Prologue So, you have decided to buy cloud! Good decision. Cloud provides a lot of benefits such as flexibility, evergreen versions and cost effectiveness. If you look around - surf the internet or visit an expo - you'll find that there are so many options for a cloud provider. Each and every one of them claims to be the best in some metric, and they are the one you should choose. However, how can you evaluate them? You might be wondering, which provider should I trust? What should I ask them? What should I keep in mind when purchasing cloud. In this episode, we give you the vocabulary and ammunition to buy cloud in an intelligent way. To get to the bottom of purchasing cloud, we will first have to discuss and figure out what the cloud actually is. Usually the cloud is categorized into 3 different sections. They are Software as a service also known as SaaS, Platform as a service known as PaaS and Infrastructure as a se

Today on the show: Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, Software as a Service. What are these cloud service models and how do they compare? Nice of you to join us! Prologue## The famous cloud advocate David Chappell has defined three most important events of post-dotcom boom IT world. The first event was the IPO of Salesforce Dot Com in 2004. It proved that the Software-as-a-Service is a serious business model. The second event was the launch of Amazon Web Services in 2006, which was the first public cloud platform. And the third event was the release of the original Apple iPhone in 2007. It started the mobile-first era with the phones eventually becoming tiny computers in our pockets. The common enabler behind all these 3 important events was the cloud. So, the cloud in all its forms has been instrumental in major developments in the IT world. So, it's important to understand what exactly the cloud is and what are its different variations. ##SaaS, PaaS or IaaS We will start the episode by defi

Today on the show - hyperscale datacenters. After this episode, you'll know what they are, what makes them special and why are they important for the cloud. #Epsiode transcript:# ##Prologue## As use of computers grew rapidly in the 1990s, so did the need for servers and datacenters. Back in the day, network connections were slow and expensive. Therefore, the datacenters had to be built close to the companies and users using them. Usually that meant building the datacenters into the office building’s basement. There was this Nordic company and their business model heavily relied on using a lot of servers. So naturally, they also had to have quite a massive basement. This essentially meant the basement was business-critical for them. If the computers were to be harmed, the company would lose their reputation, business, everything. The office was in an area with low natural disaster risks. For example, there had been no recorded earthquakes in modern history. However, the basement of this company's office was fl

Today on the show: why containers? Where do they come from, and which problems do they solve? Epsiode transcript: Prologue Hi, Karl here. Let me tell you a story from a couple of years back. Imagine a team of quite stressed out developers. This team at Nokia Research Center had been preparing for a Demoday, to showcase their new applications to an excited audience. Luckily the team had already finished building their application -- or so they thought. During the evening before the Demoday, they started to prepare the application to be showcased in the demo. This meant moving the application into a server that was located on the second floor of the office. Yet, the size of the application was huge, so the file transfer took all night. In the morning, half an hour before the demo, the project manager asked for a small change to the application: could the developers change the color of one of the buttons from blue to green. This wasn't a hard task: The developer was able to make the change in a minute, and he co