Screaming in the cloud

Insightful conversations. Less snark.


Every week, listen to host Corey Quinn interview domain experts in the world of Cloud Computing to discuss AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and how businesses are coming to think about the Cloud.

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It’s Not a Data Science Problem, It’s a Data Engineering Problem with Laurie Voss

Screaming in the Cloud
04.15.2021
36 Minutes
Laurie Voss is a senior data analyst at Netlify, makers of a serverless platform designed to help teams build, deploy, and collaborate on web apps more effectively. Previously, Laurie worked as Chief Data Officer at npm, Inc., co-founded Snowball Factory, Inc., was a technical lead at awe.sm, and worked as a developer at Yahoo, among other positions. Join Corey and Laurie as they talk about what Netlify does, how Laurie moved from CTO to COO to CDO at npm, how Laurie ended up at Netlify, what the Netlify tech stack looks like, the Google Sheets vs. Excel debate, why most companies confuse data science problems with data engineering problems, why a data scientist should be the fifth hire of your team, how working on Hadoop was akin to selling the Kool Aid instead of drinking it, how Laurie worked with people whose jobs were managing SSL certificates and how that task is now a checkbox in the background, and more.

Security Made Simple in the Data Economy with Mark Curphey

Screaming in the Cloud
04.13.2021
34 Minutes
Mark Curphey is the cofounder and Chief Product Officer at Open Raven, a data security visibility and compliance tool built for the cloud. Prior to this position, Mark was the founder and CEO of SourceClear, a software security company acquired by Veracode. Before that, he worked in software security and software development at Foundstone, a product unit manager at Microsoft, as an information security director at Schwab, among other positions. He's also the founder of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). Join Corey and Mark as they talk about how security officers don't know where data is, don't know what data they have, and don't know how that data is being protected; how companies that manage other people's data have a massive obligation to protect it but few take that seriously; why Mark gave up trying to sell developers on the importance of security; what the OWASP is and the origin story behind it; the increasingly important role security will play in the data economy; Amazon Macie's terrible pricing story; and more.

Personalization, the Non-Creepy Way with Heidi Waterhouse

Screaming in the Cloud
04.08.2021
41 Minutes
Heidi Waterhouse is the principal developer advocate at LaunchDarkly. Prior to moving into a career in advocacy, Heidi worked as a technical writer, documentation consultant, and content manager for 17 years — for companies like Pluralsight, BlueTalon, Dell, Intel, Amdocs, and Microsoft. She was also the very first guest on a podcast you might have heard of called Screaming in the Cloud. Join Corey and Heidi as they talk about feature flags, the difference between temporary feature flags and long-lived, permanent feature flags, how everyone tests in production but not everyone admits it, best practices to getting started with feature flags, Heidi's vision of Flag Markup Language and what the future of personalization looks like, why the transition to virtual conferences has a lot of hidden benefits, the rise of the digital librarian, how features flags are all about feeling safe about software, and more.

All Roads Lead to Kubernetes with Kendall Miller

Screaming in the Cloud
04.06.2021
42 Minutes
Kendall Miller is the president at Fairwinds, a shop that helps teams optimize containerized apps and get the most out of Kubernetes that was formerly called ReactiveOps. He's also the host of Authority Issues, a podcast about leadership. Prior to these positions, Kendall was a sales consultant for Odyssey Industrial Solutions and also worked for an international non-profit based in China for 11 years. Join Corey and Kendall as they talk about their long-lasting friendship, why Kendall believes Corey should ditch the "cloud economist" moniker and go with "personality" instead, why Kendall believes you don't need operational excellence if your infrastructure is simple enough, what it's like to change a company's name and some lessons the Fairwinds team learned the hard way, how there comes a point in time where organizations eventually need Kubernetes, why Corey thinks there are three or four great reasons to run on Kubernetes and 5,000 terrible ones, and more.

Minimum Viable Bureaucracy with Laura Thomson

Screaming in the Cloud
04.01.2021
37 Minutes
Laura Thomson is the vice president of engineering at Fastly, well-known in the CDN space and makers of an edge cloud platform. She ended up in this position after a 12-plus-year stint at Mozilla, where she rose through the ranks and ended up as the senior director of engineering for Firefox engineering operations. She also worked as a lecturer at RMIT University and co-founded a web design agency, where she worked for eight years. Laura has written several best-selling software development books and is on the board of trustees at the Internet Society. Join Corey and Laura as they talk about how Fastly has evolved over the years, what the Internet Society is and what it does, what it was like using the internet in the dark ages of the 1980s and 1990s, how the internet is actually getting less and less open in recent years, how it’s tough to build trusting relationships without meeting coworkers in real life, what it’s like to be a leader during the pandemic, why effective leaders need to be able to code switch, what it’s like to lead with an anti-authority streak, the benefits of rotating employees through positions to give them a bit of experience, why you need to pay interns, and more.

A Hop, Skip & a Jump to State-of-the-Art Network Analysis with Matt Cauthorn

Screaming in the Cloud
03.30.2021
38 Minutes
Matt Cauthorn is VP & Evangelist of Cybersecurity and Cloud at ExtraHop, makers of a cloud-native cybersecurity solution and a place he's worked for the last decade. Matt has more than two decades of experience in tech, having worked as a senior manager of servers, storage, and hosting at Manheim and an engineer and engineering manager at F5 Networks, among other positions. Join Corey and Matt as they talk about how ExtraHop provides sophisticated network security analytics for the enterprise in the cloud, how Corey discovered ExtraHop after seeing their name on the side of a bus in San Francisco, what Matt thinks is the beauty and the danger of the cloud, what the state-of-the-art network analysis experience feels like, who’s best positioned to benefit from ExtraHop, how beyond a certain point of scale companies need to fall back on broader coverage of security requirements instead of relying exclusively on cloud-native tools, and more.

Being Upfront on CloudFront with Katrina Bakas

Screaming in the Cloud
03.25.2021
44 Minutes
Katrina Bakas is a senior technical product manager at Amazon Web Services, who’s working on CloudFront. Prior to this role, she focused on observability as a senior product manager at Pivotal Software (and VMware upon acquisition) and worked as a product manager at Firepoint Solutions and a senior digital producer at Transamerica, among other positions. Join Corey and Katrina as they talk about what exactly it is a senior technical product manager does and how that role changes from company to company and even within the same company, how CloudFront is designed to focus on the things it does really well without additional bells and whistles, how it’s easy to complain about the things we don’t have instead of the things we do have, how Katrina focuses on developing new features that will help the most users instead of optimizing for niche use cases, some of the most interesting use cases Katrina has seen in the CDN space, and more.

Making Machine Learning Invisible with Randall Hunt

Screaming in the Cloud
03.23.2021
43 Minutes
Randall Hunt is a developer advocate at Facebook AI. Prior to this position, he worked as a solutions architect, software engineer, developer advocate, a developer evangelist at AWS, a software engineer at SpaceX, and a developer evangelist and software engineer at MongoDB, among other positions. Join Corey and Randall as they discuss the differences between TensorFlow and PyTorch, the breadth of contributors to the PyTorch project, what it’s like to listen to a conference talk by Randall, how Randall got started live coding on stage, why Randall believes audience participation is the key component of a successful talk, using machine learning to optimize the office coffee shop, how well-executed machine learning is invisible, how Randall will always be a huge AWS fan even though he no longer works there, the energy at re:Invent, and more.

The Darth Vader of AWS with Eric Brandwine

Screaming in the Cloud
03.16.2021
44 Minutes
Eric Brandwine is a VP and distinguished engineer at AWS, where he focuses on the cloud and security and has worked for more than 13 years. Prior to joining Amazon, Eric worked as a principal engineer and senior engineer at MITRE for 10 years and a network security engineer at UUNet. He earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Cornell University, with a concentration on engineering physics and research in operating systems. Join Corey and Eric as they talk about why Eric is kind of the Darth Vader of AWS, how meeting coworkers for the first time during security events isn’t the best way to win friends and influence people, how security is job zero at AWS and what that means, why businesses shouldn’t be terrified of making a single misstep but why they should take every security event very seriously, the importance of earning customer trust every day, the two things Eric thinks makes security difficult, how cyberattacks are like playing a blind game of chess against and unknown adversary, why Eric’s favorite word in AWS security is “escalate,” and more.

The Digital Transformation of a Digital Transformation Consultancy with Dennis Gada

Screaming in the Cloud
03.11.2021
32 Minutes
Dennis Gada is Senior Vice President and Head of Financial Services, North America for Infosys, an IT consultancy headquartered in India. Dennis joined Infosys as a senior client partner in 2005. Prior to that, he worked as a manager at Accenture for more than four years. Join Corey and Dennis as they talk about what Dennis does in his capacity of head of financial services, the digital transformation of a digital transformation consultancy, how Infosys has been around since the dot-com bubble and is pivoting to digital services, how Infosys partnered with Old National Bank, a regional bank based in Iowa, why some organizations take longer to complete digital transformation initiatives than others, how COVID-19 accelerated digital transformation by 10 years, how banks that had strong tech stacks were able to capitalize on the PPP, how the pandemic highlighted the need for end-to-end digital transformation, what financial services companies are getting right about digital transformation, and more.

ADHD as a Superpower with Jess Schalz

Screaming in the Cloud
03.09.2021
30 Minutes
Jessica Schalz is a workflow engineer at Transposit, a company that build interactive runbooks for DevOps and SREs to turn alerts into action. Prior to this position, Jessica worked as a security engineer at Remitly, a product security engineer at Target, and a DevOps intern at Jamf. Jessica also worked as a teaching assistant at Girls Who Code and an undergrad research assistant at the University of Minnesota. Join Corey and Jessica as they talk about what exactly a workflow engineer is, how Jess is an “aggressive advocate” for accessibility and neurodiversity, why Jess believes ADHD is a superpower in many ways, why Jess prefers agile development over waterfall development, how ADHD is a spectrum and people with the condition never really experience it the same way, what it was like working in infosec and why Jess decided to return to their engineering roots, the power of collaboration and how it lets teams see things differently, the important role empathy plays in collaboration, and more.

Meanwhile in ‘Meanwhile in Security’ with Jesse Trucks

Screaming in the Cloud
03.04.2021
36 Minutes
Jesse Trucks is the Minister of Magic at Splunk, where he consults on security and compliance program designs and develops Splunk architectures for security use cases, among other things. He brings more than 20 years of experience in tech to this role, having previously worked as director of security and compliance at Peak Hosting, a staff member at freenode, a cybersecurity engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and a systems engineer at D.E. Shaw Research, among several other positions. Jesse also was the director of the League of Professional System Administrators, ran his own consultancy for 14 years, and served in the U.S. Navy. Join Corey and Jesse as they talk about what exactly Jesse does at Splunk, what it was like to provision supercomputers at D.E. Shaw Research Group, why it’s important to build security into your products from the outset instead of treating it as an afterthought, the upcoming Meanwhile in Security podcast from The Duckbill Group, its genesis, and why Jesse will be hosting it, the difference between DevSecOps and SecDevOps and the competition to cram as many words into a portmanteau as possible, how Corey weighs sponsorship opportunities for his podcasts, how you can’t regain trust after it’s lost, why you need better security in the cloud than on-prem, and more.