Insightful conversations. Less snark.

This week Corey is joined by Jason Warner, who is here to tell us how to “Git” on it. Jason’s time at GitHub has given him the expertise to inform folks about all the exciting things GitHub has going on. He tells us what they’ve been up to, and offer some insight into GitHub’s successes which have led to their acquisition by Microsoft. Jason breaks down his own history at GitHub and its vision to become the “worlds most important software company.” Jason dives into some of the details of GitHub acquisition and the possibilities for what they want to achieve, and where they expect to go within Microsoft. Jason and Corey discuss how to talk about the cloud for its current, and importantly, future clients. Jason talks about what GitHub will bring to Microsoft, and perhaps how it’ll be for the better. Tune in, because the getting is about to “git” good.

Corey is joned by Lauren Hasson, Fonder of DevelopHer, to discuss whats its like to not be a just another whtie dude in tech and her own work in tech and advocacy for everyone in their careers. Lauren stays busy with her multifaceted interaction with the tech world, least of which is DevelopHer. Lauren talks about DevelopHer and her story about its creation. From taking a different direction into tech Lauren had to fight her ways upwards, and despite the adversity, such as the pay gap, she excelled. She created DevelopHer is order to help others make similar successes in their own careers, but through more conducive paths. Check out this episode for Lauren’s valuable insight!

What does an Internet Incident Librarian do? Courtney Nash is here to tell us. It turns out when websites don’t fly, it isn’t widely advertised. Courtney is here to keep track of those incidents for the edification of the rest of us. These incidents impact us all, in so many ways, and it is something that Courtney wants to share with the rest of us! From the overwhelming volume of dependency on AWS, to the parallels in the airline industry, to the growing importance of stuff simply having to work in our day to day lives, Courtney’s conversation shows us a lot. Not only are these dependencies becoming more prevalent every day, but building in systems to cover down on these outages. Be they at the hand backhoes in the woods, or--beavers. She discussed VOID, what it is and how it works, and more!

This week Corey is joined by the inspiring Jackie Singh, who most recently was a senior cybersecurity staffer at the Biden campaign. But her venerated career is considerably more than that alone. Jackie’s time spent in the Army, at the DoD, and eventually at work in the commercial world allows her to bring an adroit sensibility to her work and to this episode. Jackie goes into detail on her time spent at the Biden campaign and the intricacies of working in such highly politicized, and short term, environment. The cyber security threats she faced there were paramount, to downplay it, and have given Jackie a rich and constantly developing perspective on security. That in combination with her career has helped her develop a perspective that she has kindly discussed in detail during this episode! Tune in for the whole story.

From logstash to conference talks this week Corey is joined by Jordan Sissel, who folks know as the guy that put the “L” in ELK stack. At Jordan’s conference talk at SCALE in 2012 where he and Corey first crossed paths, and where Jordan made an impression with his talk and lead to their own unique history together. Corey and Jordan talk about his past and how Jordan helped to solve the problems that drove him as the original creator of logstash. They also discuss Corey’s inadvertent contribution! Jordan gives us the story of his journey about building logstash and he goes into the details on how that opened various doors for him. They also talk about the importance of developing empathy and humanity and bringing that into the cultural milieu of engineering. Tune in for the full story!

This week Corey is joined by Jesse Vincent, Co-founder and CTO of Keyboardio, and the master of the keyboards. Jesse and his company are revolutionizing mechanical keyboards, and have made it their mission to make them more than noisy office nuances. Jesse and Keyboardio take their place at the forefront of the emergence of a new mechanical keyboard revolution. Jesse and Corey discuss both of their pasts with keyboards and how it shaped the way Jesse thinks about, builds, and continues to innovate how to think about them. Jesse’s past has helped to reinforce the things he does, and equally important, does not like about mechanical keyboards. From making choices on the kind of wood, to the general mess of supply chains in 2020, to legal battles in China! Tune in for the rest!

This week Corey is joined by Nipun Agarwal, Vice President of MySQL HeatWave at Oracle, who stands as a rare entity in the tech world! Nipun has spent 27 years at Oracle, his first job out of school, and along the way has landed at the top of his field. He is the maestro of all things databases and the 170 patents proves it! Nipun and Corey discuss what it was like to stay at one company for so long, and how Nipun can serve as a role model for how to do so. Nipun discusses the varied opportunities he has pursued working across various teams at Oracle. He also discusses the role that Heatwave will play for MySQL, and how it is outpacing the competitors. Tune in for all the details!

This week Corey is joined by Adam Zimman, a self proclaimed “public servant” of the tech world, to talk about often unspoken about aspects of the industry—at least on the technolgoy side of the house. Adam is here to discuss leadership, product marketing, and go to market strategies. Adam’s role as a strategic advisor has carried him from large scale organizations to the small, and it has helped him shape a stark awareness of the role of people within a company. Adam goes into how his background has shaped his perspectives on leadership and management. He also offers the importance of providing the right professional mold for someone to provide challenges to management structures within an organization. Adam also discusses how the ability to challenge managers can be valuable and helpful. Adam teases out the differences between leadership and management, and how the former should reinforce the success of others. Tune in for Adam’s valuable insight!

This week Corey is joined by Karthik Ranganathan, CTO and Co-Founder of Yugabyte, to talk about databases of which YugabyteDB is one of the best. Karthik started at Facebook building distributed databases and now has moved onto building even more! Why? Well Karthik gives us the details. Check out the conversation! Karthik informs us about the database gap that Yugabyte is now working towards solving. This includes building out an open source relational database that can perform in three important ways: high availability, the ability to scale, and geographic distribution. Karthik gives us the details on how Yugabyte is working towards mastering all three.

This week Corey is joined by Laurie Barth, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, though most of us know Laurie by her Twitter handle: @laurieontech. While Laurie and Corey have bounced around each other in the digital sphere, now they’re finally sitting down to a conversation! Corey and Laurie talk Twitters tip jar, super follows, and Laurie’s cheeky debut of The Art of the Subtle Subtweet. Laurie offers her perspectives on how growing an audience on Twitter shifts the way people interact with you, how tweets shouldn’t always be taking seriously, and navigating that space with success. Tune in for Laurie’s tweeting tidbits!

Ev Kontsevoy, Co-Founder and CEO of Teleport, is back a year later to give us an update on what Teleport has been up to! Last time they talked the security growing pains of the pandemic were still a little manic, Ev is here to dial us in on what exactly has changed. Teleport is working hard to stay at the forefront of the “scaling stress” of cloud computing over the past year. Ev goes into details about how Teleport has handled security and the massive shift to the cloud, and the four components of what access actually means and teases out their differences. Ev also goes into how Teleport works with authentication and identity and the innovation they bring to that space. Ev, and by extension Teleport, have a lot to offer. Check out his conversation with Corey for all the details!

Katie Sylor-Miller is a frontend architect at Etsy, a company she joined in November 2015. Prior to this position, Katie worked as a senior front end developer at Constant Contact, a technical lead at EF Education, a front end web developer at Miller Systems, and a program coordinator providing research administrative services at Harvard University. She’s also the co-author of the Design Systems Handbook and the creator of Oh Shit, Git!?! Join Corey and Katie as they explore the wonderful world of Git and talk about how humans are confused by Git, how Katie’s website went viral overnight and what the experience was like, learning Git to give a talk on Git after said talk had already been accepted, how to teach yourself Git, how to teach others Git after having taught yourself Git, how people think that nothing is fixable with Git and why that’s wrong, how engineers write less and less code the higher and higher they climb at organizations, and more.