Screaming in the Cloud

About Jaana DoganJaana Dogan is working on Spanner at Google to make state not your problem problem. She has 15+ years of experience in building infrastructure, developer platforms, and tools. Jaana's current work is focused on storage systems, observability and performance tools, and helping customers with architectural design tradeoffs.Links Referenced: Recommended book: https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications-Reliable-Maintainable/dp/1449373321Twitter: https://twitter.com/rakyllhttps://jbd.dev/https://rakyll.org/

About Jon MyerA Partner Solutions Architect for Cloud Management Tools at AWS. Jon Myer is an evangelist for all things AWS and passionate about educating, teaching, and connecting with others about new or existing services AWS releases.Links Referenced: The AWS Blogger: https://www.theawsblogger.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/_jonmyerLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-myer/

About Tim Bray:Tim is a general-purpose Internet-software geek. He specializes in Web, search, writing, speaking, business.  He founded Textuality in 1996. He is available for consulting on issues of technology leadership, software construction, and distributed systems. You can follow Tim's musings on his blog ongoing and on Twitter.Links Referenced: “Working Effectively with Legacy Code”: https://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Feathers/dp/0131177052Twitter: https://twitter.com/timbrayBlog: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/Article Tim wrote about his PR FAQ: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/06/21/A-Cloud-PR-FAQTim Bray’s “Split AWS from Amazon” PR FAQ he wrote: https://github.com/timbray/a-cloud-prfaqTim Bray’s “Break up Google” article: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/06/25/Break-Up-GoogleCorey’s Fake PR FAQ: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/introducing-aws-elastic-beanstalker/

About Katie BullardAs President of A Cloud Guru, Katie leads the sales, marketing, customer success, and partnership teams for the world's largest and most trusted cloud training platform.Links Referenced: Main company site: https://acloud.guru/ and https://acloudguru.com A Cloud Guru Twitter: https://twitter.com/acloudguruA Cloud Guru LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/a-cloud-guru/

About Liz Fong-JonesLiz is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 16+ years of experience. She is an advocate at Honeycomb for the SRE and Observability communities, and previously was an SRE working on products ranging from the Google Cloud Load Balancer to Google Flights.Links ReferencedCompany Site: https://www.honeycomb.io/The Duckbill Group: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/Honeycomb Liz: https://www.honeycomb.io/lizPersonal site: https://www.lizthegrey.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/lizthegrey

About Forrest BrazealForrest is an enterprise cloud architect, speaker, and community advocate. Currently a senior manager at A Cloud Guru, he spent years designing applications for the cloud at Infor and Trek10. One of the original AWS Serverless Heroes, Forrest was also named one of Jefferson Frank's Top 7 Global AWS Experts in 2019. His first book, "The Read-Aloud Cloud", is coming from Wiley in September 2020.Links ReferencedBook: https://www.amazon.com/Read-Aloud-Cloud-Innocents-Inside/dp/1119677629Cloud Irregular: https://cloudirregular.substack.com/ works. Note that this is the link behind some text that is “forrestBrazeal.com/mailinglist” which was not a working link.Twitter: https://twitter.com/forrestbrazealLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/forrestbrazeal/Personal Website: https://forrestbrazeal.com/Article “Why Central Cloud Teams Fail”: https://info.acloud.guru/resources/why-central-cloud-teams-fail-and-how-to-save-yours

About Melanie CebulaMelanie Cebula is an expert in Cloud Infrastructure, where she is recognized worldwide for explaining radically new ways of thinking about cloud efficiency and usability. She is an international keynote speaker, presenting complex technical topics to a broad range of audiences, both international and domestic. Melanie is a staff engineer at Airbnb, where she has experience building a scalable modern architecture on top of cloud-native technologies.Besides her expertise in the online world, Melanie spends her time offline on the “sharp end” of rock climbing. An adventure athlete setting new personal records in challenging conditions, she appreciates all aspects of the journey, including the triumph of reaching ever higher destinations.On and off the wall, Melanie focuses on building reliability into critical systems, and making informed decisions in difficult situations. In her personal time, Melanie hand whisks matcha tea, enjoys costuming and dancing at EDM festivals, and she is a triplet.Links Referenced: Twitter: https://twitter.com/melaniecebulaMelanie Cebula’s website: https://melaniecebula.com/

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About Jessy IrwinJessy is Founder at Amulet. She enjoys the challenge of translating complex cybersecurity problems into relatable terms, and is responsible for developing, maintaining and delivering comprehensive ecosystem security strategy that supports and enables the needs of the people who depend on Tendermint and the CosmosSDK.Links Referenced: https://twitter.com/jessysaurusrexhttps://jessysaurusrex.com 

About Dwayne MonroeI've been a technologist, in some form, for most of my conscious life (starting with a Sinclair kit computer). I work as a cloud architect, focused on Azure and spend a lot of time thinking and writing about that (particularly controlling spend). Besides that, I enjoy a good Bordeaux or martini, travel and my life as a transplant to Amsterdam.Links Referenced: https://retool.com/ https://twitter.com/cloudquistadorhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/cloudquistador/http://monroelab.net/projects/cmdlet-daily/Books on Amazon