Ever wondered how Corey got to where he is today? You have Brian Weber to partially thank for that. On this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey catches up with his old friend and mentor to talk about the ever-evolving world of tech. Brian’s been around the block a time or two having done significant stints at Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter (during the Elon acquisition no less)! As Corey and Brian catch up, you’ll hear them chat about the importance of empathy, coaching the next generation of tech workers, and their conspiracies surrounding Google and Kubernetes. So grab your tinfoil hats, it’s time to go Screaming!

Show Highlights

(0:00) Intro

(0:53) The Duckbill Group sponsor read

(1:27) When Brian took Corey under his win

(3:21) Brian's experience coming to the cloud as an engineer

(7:24) Why it's important to reinvent yourself in tech

(8:54) How Brian reacted to the industry adopting Kubernetes over Mesos Marathon

(10:31) Kubernetes conspiracy theories

(12:30) The importance of empathy in tech

(15:46) Trying to advise younger generations entering tech

(19:19) The Duckbill Group sponsor read

(20:02) Working at Twitter when jobs started getting cut and the site frequently went down

(22:41) The best way to navigate certification expiration

(26:08) Talking about "The Golden Path”

(28:52) Why you should always plan ahead in tech (and life)

(34:21) Where you can find more from Brian

About Brian Weber

Brian is a former FedRAMP DevOps Engineer for Coralogix. He’s also been a Site Reliability Engineer at Twitter, Pinterest, and Facebook, where he has maintained large installations on-premises, building reliability, security, and developer efficiency. In my spare time, Brian skis, knits, cycles, bakes, and tries to spend as much time outdoors as possible.

Links

• Brian’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-weber-2423b55/

Sponsor

The Duckbill Group: duckbillgroup.com

On this Screaming in the Cloud Replay, we look back at our conversation with Amy Negrette. Before she joined DigitalOcean Senior Development Advocate, she was a cloud economist at The Duckbill Group. Prior to that, Amy worked as a cloud architect at Trek10, Inc., a cloud software engineer lead at Cloudreach, a software developer at ASRC Research and Technology Solutions, and a software engineer at Yahoo, among other positions. She’s also an organizer of Write/Speak/Code, an organization committed to helping Under Represented Genders sharpen their technical speaking and writing capabilities. Join Corey and Amy as they discuss the pros and cons of remote work, what Duckbill’s organizational structure is like, remote work during the pandemic vs. remote work during the before times, why it’s nice to be able to work whenever you want to work instead of during fixed hours, why the future of travel in the tech industry should change, how Corey and Amy met, what makes cloud economics come natural to Amy, a tool that helps recreate physical events online more effectively than Zoom, and more.

Show Highlights

(0:00) Intro

(0:57) The Duckbill Group sponsor read

(1:30) Amy’s experience working with The Duckbill Group during the pandemic

(7:20) When Amy was the only cloud economist with a background in software engineering

(12:36) Is it antiquated to go on-site to meet with clients?

(16:23) Amy’s time spent working at NASA

(17:55) The Duckbill Group sponsor read

(18:38) What it’s like working IT for NASA

(20:28) Amy’s background prior to cloud consulting

(24:15) Amy’s view on public speaking events coming out of the pandemic

(29:21) Corey’s qualms with re:Invent

(31:51) Where you can find more from Amy

About Amy Arambulo Negrette

With over ten years industry experience, Amy Arambulo Negrette has built web applications for a variety of industries including Yahoo! Fantasy Sports and NASA Ames Research Center. One of her projects modernized two legacy systems impacting the entire research center and won her a Certificate of Excellence from the Ames Contractor Council. Amy believe that strong and consistent communication can produce the best product and overall customer experience, whether it's in gaming, educational outreach, or internal tools. Her long term goal is to lead people and have creative control over my projects.

Links

• The Duckbill Group: http://duckbillgroup.com/
• Amy’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/nerdypaws

Original Episode

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/a-conversation-between-cloud-economists-with-amy-arambulo-negrette/

Sponsor

The Duckbill Group: duckbillgroup.com

On this Screaming in the Cloud Replay, Corey is joined by Microsoft's current Vice President of Developer Community, Scott Hanselman. They talk about how Scott is selling enthusiasm around free and open source software to empower the next generation of programmers, how technology can help you escape a suboptimal position in life, moving a blog that was hosted on a Windows Server 2008 server to Azure, using TikTok to encourage younger folks to get into coding, why there isn’t a wrong programming language to learn and why you should learn JavaScript, how the rise of SaaS and cloud computing has made Microsoft a “simpler” company, convincing banks to use open source in the 2000s, and more.

Show Highlights

(0:00) Intro

(0:29) The Duckbill Group sponsor read

(1:13) What Scott did as Microsoft’s Partner Program Manager

(2:05) Scott’s various passions and projects

(4:37) Changes at Microsoft since Corey last kept track of the company

(10:15) Why Corey struggles to get back into the Windows ecosystem

(17:45) The convenience of having everything more accessible and hosted in Azure

(24:36) The Duckbill Group sponsor read

(25:19) The importance of the struggle when starting out in tech

(30:55) Microsoft’s cultural transformation

(34:32) Why Scott has turned to social media to reach the next generation of engineers

(39:18) Where you can find more from Scott

About Scott Hanselman

Scott has been a developer for 30 years and has been blogging at https://hanselman.com for 20 years! He works in Open Source on .NET and the Azure Cloud for Microsoft out of his home office in Portland, Oregon. Scott has been podcasting for over 950 episodes of http://hanselminutes.com over 18 years and over 750 episodes of http://www.azurefriday.com. He's written a number of technical books and spoken in person to over one million developers worldwide! He's also on TikTok, which was very likely a huge mistake.

Links

• Hanselminutes Podcast: https://www.hanselminutes.com/
• Personal website: https://hanselman.com

Original Episode

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/inspiring-the-next-generation-of-devs-on-tiktok-with-scott-hanselman/

Sponsor

The Duckbill Group: duckbillgroup.com