Screaming in the Cloud

Corey Quinn

Screaming in the Cloud with Corey Quinn features conversations with domain experts in the world of Cloud Computing. Topics discussed include AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and the "why" behind how businesses are coming to think about the Cloud.

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Nov 21, 2018 · 35 min
Episode 37: Hiring in the Cloud “I assume CrowdStrike makes drones”
What’s hiring in the world of Cloud like? What are companies looking for in possible employees? What kind of career trajectory should applicants display? Today, we’re talking to Don O’Neill, who has had an interesting career path and the archetype of who
Nov 14, 2018 · 44 min
Episode 36: I'm Not Here to Correct Your English, Just Cloud Bills
Do you enjoy watching sports? Wear your favorite team or player’s jersey? Are you a fan who has shopped at Fanatics on the Cloud? Today, we’re talking to Johnny Sheeley, director of Cloud engineering at Fanatics, which is a sports eCommerce business that
Nov 7, 2018 · 32 min
Episode 35: Metered Pricing: Everyone Hates That! Charge Based on Value
Did you know that you can now run Lambda functions for 15 minutes, instead of dealing with 5-minute timeouts? Although customers will probably never need that much time, it helps dispel the belief that serverless isn’t useful for some use cases because of
Oct 31, 2018 · 32 min
Episode 34: Slack and the Safety Dance of Chaos Engineering
In the early days, angry nerd corners on the Internet viewed Slack and some of its predecessors as, “Oh, it’s just IRC. Now, you pay someone for it.” Many fell into that trap of wondering about what value such systems offered.The big differentiator? Slack
Oct 24, 2018 · 29 min
Episode 33: The Worst Manager I Ever Had Spoke Only In Metaphor
If you’ve been doing DevOps for the past 10-20 years, things have really changed in the industry. There’s no longer large pools of help desk support. People aren’t climbing around the data center and learning how to punch down cables and rack servers to g
Oct 17, 2018 · 25 min
Episode 32: Lambda School: A New Approach to “Hire Ed”
Are you interested in computer science? How would you like to go to school for free and learn what you need to in just a few months? Then, check out Lambda School! Today, we’re talking to Ben Nelson, co-founder and CTO of Lambda School, which is a 30-week
Oct 10, 2018 · 39 min
Episode 31: Hey Sam, wake up. It’s 3am, and time to solve a murder mystery!
Have you ever been on-call duty as an IT person or otherwise? Woken up at 3 a.m. to solve a problem? Did you have to go through log files or look at a dashboard to figure out what was going on? Did you think there has got to be a better way to troubleshoo
Oct 3, 2018 · 42 min
Episode 30: How to Compete with Amazon
Trying to figure out if Amazon Web Services (AWS) is right for you? Use the “quadrant of doom” to determine your answer. When designing a Cloud architecture, there are factors to consider. Any system you design exists for one reason - support a business.
Sep 26, 2018 · 32 min
Episode 29: Future of Serverless: A Toy that will Evolve and Offer Flexibility
Are you a blogger? Engineer? Web guru? What do you do? If you ask Yan Cui that question, be prepared for several different answers. Today, we’re talking to Yan, who is a principal engineer at DAZN. Also, he writes blog posts and is a course developer. Hi
Sep 19, 2018 · 31 min
Episode 28: Serverless as a Consulting Cash Register (now accepting Bitcoin!)
Is your company thinking about adopting serverless and running with it? Is there a profitable opportunity hidden in it? Ready to go on that journey? Today, we’re talking to Rowan Udell, who works for Versent, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) consulting partn
Sep 12, 2018 · 29 min
Episode 27: What it Took for Google to Make Changes: Outages and Mean Tweets
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) turned off a customer that it thought was doing something out of bounds. This led to an Internet outrage, and GCP tried to explain itself and prevent the problem in the future. Today, we’re talking to Daniel Compton, an indepe
Sep 5, 2018 · 24 min
Episode 26: I’m not a data scientist, but I work for an AI/ML startup building on Serverless Containers
Do you deal with a lot of data? Do you need to analyze and interpret data? Veritone’s platform is designed to ingest audio, video, and other data through batch processes to process the media and attach output, such as transcripts or facial recognition dat
Aug 29, 2018 · 29 min
Episode 25: Kubernetes is Named After the Greek God of Spending Money on Cloud Services
Google builds platforms for developers and strives to make them happy. There's a team at Google that wakes up every day to make sure developers have great outcomes with its services and products. The team listens to the developers and brings all feedback
Aug 22, 2018 · 39 min
Episode 24: Serverless Observability via the bill is terrible
What is serverless? What do people want it to be? Serverless is when you write your software, deploy it to a Cloud vendor that will scale and run it, and you receive a pay-for-use bill. It’s not necessarily a function of a service, but a concept. Today, w
Aug 10, 2018 · 35 min
Episode 23: Most Likely to be Misunderstood: The Myth of Cloud Agnosticism
It is easy to pick apart the general premise of Cloud agnosticism being a myth. What about reasonable use cases? Well, generally, when you have a workload that you want to put on multiple Cloud providers, it is a bad idea. It’s difficult to build and main
Aug 8, 2018 · 32 min
Episode 22: The Chaos Engineering experiment that is us-east-1
Trying to convince a company to embrace the theory and idea of Chaos Engineering is an uphill battle. When a site keeps breaking, Gremlin’s plan involves breaking things intentionally. How do you introduce chaos as a step toward making things better? Toda
Aug 1, 2018 · 31 min
Episode 21: Remember when RealNetworks used to-- BUFFERING
Are you about to head off to college? Interested in DevOps and the Cloud? Is there a good way for someone like you who is starting out in the world of technology to absorb the necessary skills? The Open Source Lab (OSL) at Oregon State University (OSU) is
Jul 25, 2018 · 51 min
Episode 20: The Wizard of AWS
Today, we’re talking to Jeff Barr, vice president and chief evangelist at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He founded the AWS Blog in 2004 and has written more than 2,900 posts for it and another 1,100 for his personal blog. As chief evangelist, Jeff strives to
Jul 19, 2018 · 39 min
Episode 19: I want to build a world spanning search engine on top of GCP
Some companies that offer services expect you to do things their way or take the highway. However, Google expects people to simply adapt the tech company’s suggestions and best practices for their specific context. This is how things are done at Google, b
Jul 11, 2018 · 36 min
Episode 18: Sitting on the curb clapping as serverless superheroes go by
What’s serverless? Are you serverless now? Is going from enterprise to serverless a natural evolution? Or, is it a “that was fun, now let’s go ride our bikes” moment? Is serverless “just a toy?” Is it a wide and varied ecosystem, or is it Lambda plus some