Screaming in the Cloud

About Kylie RobisonKylie Robison is a California State University, Sacramento student studying business information systems, technology reporter for the State Hornet, and proud president of her school’s Ski & Snowboard Club. She’s hoping to break into the technology industry when she graduates in May of 2021.Links Referenced:The State HornetCovered CaliforniaFollow Kylie on TwitterKylie’s Website

About Alex HidalgoAlex Hidalgo is a Site Reliability Engineer and author of the upcoming Implementing Service Level Objectives (O'Reilly Media, September 2020). During his career he has developed a deep love for sustainable operations, proper observability, and using SLO data to drive discussions and make decisions. Alex's previous jobs have included IT support, network security, restaurant work, t-shirt design, and hosting game shows at bars. When not sharing his passion for technology with others, you can find him scuba diving or watching college basketball. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner Jen and a rescue dog named Taco. Alex has a BA in philosophy from Virginia Commonwealth University.Links Referenced: Buy Implementing Service Level Objectives on bookshop.orgBuy Implementing Service Level Objectives on AmazonFollow Alex on TwitterAlex’s personal siteCorey’s landing page for Implementing Service Level Objectives

About Danyel FisherDanyel Fisher is a Principal Design Researcher for Honeycomb.io. He focuses his passion for data visualization on helping SREs understand their complex systems quickly and clearly. Before he started at Honeycomb, he spent thirteen years at Microsoft Research, studying ways to help people gain insights faster from big data analytics.Links Referenced: Danyel’s section on Honeycomb’s websiteDanyel’s Personal SiteFollow Danyel on Twitter

About Chris PorterChris Porter is the Director of Solutions Engineering at StackRox, the leader in Kubernetes-native container security. Porter has more than 20 years of experience in pre-sales engineering roles, serving and advising customers on security for email, web, cloud, and now Kubernetes and containers. Porter is a certified AWS Solutions Architect and AWS Security Specialist, is the author of a Cisco Press book on Email Security, and holds a Master’s degree from Stevens Institute of Technology.Linked Referenced:StackRoxStackRox BlogEmail Chris directly at chris@stackrox.comFollow Chris on TwitterConnect with Chris on LinkedIn

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About Matt StrattonMatt Stratton is a Transformation Specialist at Red Hat and a long-time member of the global DevOps community. Back in the day, his license plate actually said “DevOps”. Matt has over 20 years of experience in IT operations, ranging from large financial institutions such as JPMorganChase to internet firms including Apartments.com. He is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and ITSM focused events, including DevOps Enterprise Summit, DevOpsDays, Interop, PINK, and others worldwide. Matt is the founder and co-host of the popular Arrested DevOps podcast, as well as the global chair of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Doctor Who. He is currently on a mission to discover the best phở in the world. You can find him on Twitter at @mattstratton.Links Referenced: Red HatArrested DevOpsArrested DevOps podcast about DevOpsDays ChicagoFollow Matt on TwitterConnect with Matt on LinkedInSpeaking EventsDevOpsDay Chicago 2020

About Shelby SpeesShelby Spees has been developing software professionally since 2015 in a range of domains, which has made her appreciate the importance of learning how to learn and creating support systems for lifelong skill development. When she’s not helping teams level up their observability practice, you can find her at home playing on her Switch or singing karaoke with her rescue pitbull Nova.Links ReferencedFollow Shelby on TwitterConnect with Shelby on LinkedInShelby’s Personal SiteEmail Shelby directly at shelby@hey.com

About Alfonso CabreraAlfonso Cabrera is the Director of Platform Engineering at Red Ventures, where he helps manage and optimize the extensive AWS footprint. He also spent time at AWS as a Solutions Architect and worked as a DevOps Engineer at a few startups. Alfonso enjoys fostering community and has organized DevOpsDays Charlotte for the past 5 years. Outside of work, he tries to stay in shape by playing sports of all kinds, and gets his adrenaline fix by riding motorcycles.Links ReferencedRed VenturesFollow Alfonso on TwitterConnect with Alfonso on LinkedIn

About Richard SeroterRichard Seroter is Director of Outbound Product Management at Google Cloud, with a master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Colorado. He’s also an instructor at Pluralsight, the lead InfoQ.com editor for cloud computing, a frequent public speaker, the author of multiple books on software design and development, and a former 12-time Microsoft MVP for cloud. Richard maintains a regularly updated blog on topics of architecture and solution design and can be found on Twitter as @rseroter.Links ReferencedConnect with Richard on LinkedInFollow Richard on TwitterRichard’s Personal Blog

About Peter CooperFounder and editor-in-chief of Cooper Press. Programmer, indexer of all the programming links, former O'Reilly conference chair, and general nerd.Links ReferencedCooper PressJavaScript WeeklyRuby WeeklyArticle, “How to use AWS SimpleDB from Ruby”Follow Peter on TwitterConnect with Peter on LinkedIn