Insightful conversations. Less snark.

Peter Hamilton, VP of Technology at Remind, is here courtesy of Redis, who seem intent on letting us know through their customers the value they bring to the table. Remind is a messaging tool for education, with a focus on K-12, that is bringing equal opportunity for every student in their education. Peter defines what exactly messaging means to Remind, and the intricacies of navigating the balance and controls of education and messaging. Remind has an exalted reputation in the world of AWS due to their willingness to responsibly take new products for spin. As early adopters of cloud native, Remind and Redis are intricately interwoven, and their partnership has only proved mutually beneficial. Tune in to see how!

Networking in AWS has gotten more and more capable over the years, but with it comes considerable complexity. Phillip Griffiths, Head of Business Development at NetFoundry, where they are trying to take a differentiated approach to the complexity of networking and AWS, has a thing or two to say about it. Phillip and Corey tackle one of the most important things in the network stack: security. In that regard, as a network overlay NetFoundry has to start at the application level. Phillip dissects his “tiers” for zero trust and how he quantifies what zero trust actually is. With some help from a boy wizard and a conversation with his daughter, Phillip is able to reveal the magic behind the zero trust hat trick. Check out this in-depth conversation for more!

Nipun Agarwal has been a guest before on “Screaming,” but now he has graduated up to Senior VP at Oracle! Which means that Corey can throw harder questions Nipun's direction. Now that Nipun is a SVP, he is well suited to take them on, and we’re the better for it as he has much to say about what Oracle has been up to. Nipun describes in detail some of Oracle’s more recent innovations, including MySQL HeatWave. Which if you’ll allow a terrible descriptor is MySQL with some “magic layered on top of it.” Nipun, however, is able to tell us exactly what the magic is and how it works. Nipun dives into the details as he and Corey discuss MySQL and HeatWave when it comes to processing, analytics, machine learning, moving data around and costs, its competition with other databases, the value it brings to customers, and much more!

A year or so before the pandemic hit Corey traveled to Australia for a keynote speech. There he crossed paths with the closing keynote which was delivered by Rick Houlihan. Rick, Director Developer Relations for Strategic Accounts at MongoDB, put Corey’s brain through the squeeze over the course of his keynote—and now he is here to expand on how! Rick started at DynamoDB, but made the jump back to MongoDB, and he does so from a position of authenticity and interest. Rick and Corey take a deep and multifaceted dive into the world of all things DB. Rick eases into an honest conversation on where MongoDB is at, his reasons for joining their organization, and the exciting places they are headed.

This episode's repeat guest is back, but instead of talking about what she does, she is back to talk about how she got there. Corey is joined by Rachel Dines, Head of Product and Technical Marketing at Chronosphere, to get the birds eye view of her variegated career. Back in the early days Rachel was at CloudHealth, the “800lbs gorilla” in that space, who in turn was acquired by VMware, and now Rachel is at Chronosphere. Rachel studied art history and computer science in school, so she was already off to a diverse start. Her first job was at Forrester which blew open the cloud doors for Rachel. From the earliest whiffing of AWS, to NetApp by way of Riverbed, and so much more Rachel has a lot to offer!

Clint Sharp, CEO and co-founder at Cribl, is back for a repetition of “Screaming!” This time Clint is here with some news! But, it isn’t to buy a vowel. Instead it is a juicy new product announcement. And in the adroit words of Clint, product announcements “actually matter” to Corey’s audience. Clint starts off with a light refresher of what exactly Cribl, an observability company on the fundamental level, does. Recently Cribl has made dovetailing observability and security a priority. With their announcement of their product Cribl Edge, for which they did buy a couple of vowels-–they are “taking our existing best-in-class management technology, and we’re turning it into an agent.” Tune into Clint’s conversation for an extensive look at Cribl Edge, Clint’s perspectives, and more!

Join today’s episode as we say howdy to one of Duckbill Group’s latest hires! Alex Rasmussen, Principal Cloud Economist at Duckbill, whose trajectory into tech is quite protean, sits down with Corey for a chat. Alex is one of the first of a “cloud economist subtype” with a background in academics, consulting, and more! Alex jokes about going to school “until somebody told me I have to stop”—the result? A Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering. But Alex’s expertise only begins there. Alex used his academic background to dovetail with multiple startups, which lead to a history steeped in data infrastructure. Corey and Alex discuss Duckbill’s decision and the logic behind hiring him to cover down on the data side of things. Join them as they dive duckbill first into the deep pool of data!

Today’s guest is Aidan Steele, who by day is a Serverless Engineer at Stedi, but by night “he is an absolute treasure and a delight.” Why so? Well he writes fantastic third party tooling and blog posts and “turns them into the most glorious, intricate, and technical shit posts” that Corey has ever seen. Aidan talks about his inspiration from Asimov’s The Foundation for his ipv6-ghost-ship. Aidan and Corey vent a little about AWS’s “perfect track record” for security, and how they both have learned to question if that is actually the case. Aidan has been working (or at least getting paid to work) in AWS from its inception, and he reflects on how he has masterfully navigated, or perhaps teleported around, that space for years.

0x4447 is an independent company that packages software and solutions that is designed to scale “a heck of a lot” more than just a consultancy. David Gatti, a cloud engineer and CEO of 0x4447, joins Corey for a deep dive into all the company’s offerings. They have recently pulled away from just consultancy work, and are now hard charging their software into the cloud ecosystem. David discusses 0x4447’s recent pull from just consultancy and the shift of focus to the products they sale on the AWS Marketplace. The primary reason, scale. David talks about balancing the early high investment that software demands, with a tailing productivity and return. He and Corey chat in depth about 0x4447’s offerings to include their VPN, SFTP, and others alongside the philosophy that David has developed behind his work.

Seth Vargo, and Engineer at Google, was the third guest ever on “Screaming!” Now, at three hundred plus episodes later, he is back to catch up with Corey. This time around Corey isn’t nearly as tentative with the microphone, so the conversation is bound to start on good footing. Seth is still at Google, but primarily works with Alphabet helping companies within the conglomerate umbrella securely and privately consume public cloud. Seth’s work has transitioned from Cloud PA or “product area” to what he calls “Core PA.” In Core PA is his work across various clouds, dare we dive into the semantics of multi-cloud, for the stable of companies under Alphabet. Seth offers up some reflections on the complexity of working in a massive entity, what exactly privately means in the context of his work, GCP, and more!

There are good parts to TikTok, despite the crippling nature of existential pondering on ones age that it may induce. One of those good parts is that Corey gets to talk to people who, generally, he wouldn’t have access to across the cloud ecosystem. Today’s guest, Brooke Jamieson, Head of Enablement of AI/ML and Data at Blackbook.ai is a fortunate example of the great good that comes out of it. Brooke has a knack for folding multiple things together into succinct content. Brooke takes the incredibly complex, and makes them easily accessible, via short form video. One of Brooke’s unique abilities is to create content that sells ideas over products. The result, a prolific and wide reception of some well honed perspectives. Check out the conversation for Brooke’s wisdom!

In house pronunciation habits are a slight annoyance of the industry, so for now when it comes to CNCF, we will stick with spelling it out one letter at a time. We are glad to say that Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent, and chair of CNCF's Technical Oversight Committee, does the same. Gracefully so, ditto to Isovalent’s eBPF, instead of “Ehbehpf” which is at the start of today’s conversation. Liz Rice spills the beans on eBPF, or extended Berkeley Packet Filter, which on its own basically means nothing. But, what it actually does is allow you to do is to run custom programs inside the kernel. Liz breaks down the varied ways that eBPF is useful, the story on how the enterprise versions of Cilium are useful, and some of the other tools Isovalent is bringing forward.