Screaming in the Cloud

Holiday replay edition features insightful discussions on Kubernetes complexity, challenges, and opportunities. Explore Kubernetes role in maintaining workflow portability across cloud providers, adoption patterns in enterprises, and contrasting paths of OpenStack and Kubernetes. Learn about navigating Kubernetes adoption and learning paths.

About BrianBrian leads the Google Cloud Product and Industry Marketing team. This team is focused on accelerating the growth of Google Cloud by establishing thought leadership, increasing demand and usage, enabling their sales teams and partners to tell their product stories with excellence, and helping their customers be the best advocates for them.Before joining Google, Brian spent over 25 years in product marketing or engineering in different forms. He started his career at Microsoft and had a very non-traditional path for 20 years. Brian worked in every product division except for cloud. He did marketing, product management, and engineering roles. And, early on, he was the first speech writer for Steve Ballmer and worked on Bill Gates’ speeches too. His last role was building up the Microsoft Surface business from scratch as VP of the hardware businesses. After Microsoft, Brian spent a year as CEO at a hardware startup called Doppler Labs, where they made a run at transforming hearing, and then spent two years as VP at Amazon Web Services leading product marketing, developer advocacy, and a bunch more marketing teams.Brian has three kids still at home, Barty, Noli, and Alder, who are all named after trees in different ways. His wife Edie and him met right at the beginning of their first year at Yale University, where Brian studied math, econ, and philosophy and was the captain of the Swim and Dive team his senior year. Edie has a PhD in forestry and runs a sustainability and forestry consulting firm she started, that is aptly named “Three Trees Consulting”. As a family they love the outdoors, tennis, running, and adventures in Brian’s 1986 Volkswagen Van, which is his first and only car, that he can’t bring himself to get rid of.Links Referenced:Google Cloud: https://cloud.google.com@isforat: https://twitter.com/IsForAtLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brhall/

About HarryHarry has worked at Sysdig for over 6 years, helping organizations mature their journey to cloud native. He’s witnessed the evolution of bare metal, VMs, and finally Kubernetes establish itself as the de-facto for container orchestration. He is part of the product team building Sysdig’s troubleshooting and cost offering, helping customers increase their confidence operating and managing Kubernetes.Previously, Harry ran, and later sold, a cloud hosting provider where he was working hands on with systems administration. He studied information security and lives in the UK.Links Referenced:Sysdig: https://sysdig.com/

About SimenEver since he started programming simple games on his 8-bit computer back in the day, Simen has been passionate about how software can deliver powerful experiences. Throughout his career he has been a sought-after creator and collaborator for companies seeking to push the envelope with their digital end-user experiences.He co-founded Sanity because the state of the art content tools were consistently holding him, his team and his customers back in delivering on their vision. He is now serving as the CTO of Sanity.Simen loves mountain biking and rock climbing with child-like passion and unwarranted enthusiasm. Over the years he has gotten remarkably good at going over the bars without taking serious damage.Links Referenced:Sanity: https://www.sanity.io/Semin’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/svale/Slack community for Sanity: https://slack.sanity.io/

About RamDr. Ram Sriharsha held engineering, product management, and VP roles at the likes of Yahoo, Databricks, and Splunk. At Yahoo, he was both a principal software engineer and then research scientist; at Databricks, he was the product and engineering lead for the unified analytics platform for genomics; and, in his three years at Splunk, he played multiple roles including Sr Principal Scientist, VP Engineering and Distinguished Engineer.Links Referenced:Pinecone: https://www.pinecone.io/XKCD comic: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1425:_Tasks

About RickRick is the Product Leader of the AWS Optimization team. He previously led the cloud optimization product organization at Turbonomic, and previously was the Microsoft Azure Resource Optimization program owner.Links Referenced:AWS: https://console.aws.amazon.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-ochs-06469833/Twitter: https://twitter.com/rickyo1138

About SamSam Nicholls: Veeam’s Director of Public Cloud Product Marketing, with 10+ years of sales, alliance management and product marketing experience in IT. Sam has evolved from his on-premises storage days and is now laser-focused on spreading the word about cloud-native backup and recovery, packing in thousands of viewers on his webinars, blogs and webpages.Links Referenced:Veeam AWS Backup: https://www.veeam.com/aws-backup.htmlVeeam: https://veeam.com

About BrianBrian is an accomplished dealmaker with experience ranging from developer platforms to mobile services. Before InfluxData, Brian led business development at Twilio. Joining at just thirty-five employees, he built over 150 partnerships globally from the company’s infancy through its IPO in 2016. He led the company’s international expansion, hiring its first teams in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Prior to Twilio Brian was VP of Business Development at Clearwire and held management roles at Amp’d Mobile, Kivera, and PlaceWare.Links Referenced:InfluxData: https://www.influxdata.com/

About PerryPerry Krug currently leads the Shared Services team which is focused on building tools and managing infrastructure and data to increase the productivity of Couchbase’s Sales and Field organisations.  Perry has been with Couchbase for over 12 years and has served in many customer-facing technical roles, helping hundreds of customers understand, deploy, and maintain Couchbase's NoSQL database technology.  He has been working with high performance caching and database systems for over 15 years.Links Referenced:Couchbase: https://www.couchbase.com/Perry’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrykrug/

About AndiAndi Gutmans is the General Manager and Vice President for Databases at Google. Andi’s focus is on building, managing and scaling the most innovative database services to deliver the industry’s leading data platform for businesses. Before joining Google, Andi was VP Analytics at AWS running services such as Amazon Redshift. Before his tenure at AWS, Andi served as CEO and co-founder of Zend Technologies, the commercial backer of open-source PHP.Andi has over 20 years of experience as an open source contributor and leader. He co-authored open source PHP. He is an emeritus member of the Apache Software Foundation and served on the Eclipse Foundation’s board of directors. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.Links Referenced:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andigutmans/Twitter: https://twitter.com/andigutmans