On-Call Nightmares Podcast

On-Call Nightmares: Back in a New York Groove

Hey friends, it's been a while. I haven't been on-call, but I have been working on meeting tons of new people for new content for this podcast.I can't do it alone though. Would you like to be on the podcast?Reach out!Twitter: https://twitter.com/OnCallNightmare Email: oncallnightmares@gmail.comThe commitment for your story is under 35 minutes and you'll have a lasting testimony of your experience on-call.

Episode 46 - Year in Review with Corey Quinn of The Duckbill Group

Well 2019 is just about done, that means one more podcast. This time I break format a bit and welcome on Corey Quinn. Corey and I take a look at how he founded the company and how they help people save money on their AWS bills. Then Corey and I take a dive into some of the topics that impacted the cloud in 2019. A fun conversation to end 2019!Corey is the Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group. Corey specializes in helping companies improve their AWS bills by making them smaller and less horrifying; hosts the Screaming in the Cloud and AWS Morning Brief podcasts; and curates Last Week in AWS, a weekly newsletter summarizing the latest in AWS news, blogs, and tools, sprinkled with snark. https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/https://www.lastweekinaws.com/

Episode 45 - Kelsey Hightower - Google

It's the One Year Anniversary of On-Call Nightmares. When I set out to start this podcast, there were a few people on a list that i just felt I needed to speak to. I finally checked off the first name I had on the list. Episode 45 is a conversation with Google Principal Developer Advocate, Kelsey Hightower.Kelsey Hightower is a Technologist working at Google while learning in public.https://twitter.com/kelseyhightowerhttps://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way

Episode 44 - Silvia Botros - Twilio

This week I chat with Silvia Botros also known as the @dbsmasher from Twitter. I learn about her experiences on-call for databases, motherhood and an affinity for breaking things. An awesome conversation with an incredible person.Silvia Botros is a Sr Principal Engineer at Twilio. She focuses on ways to break databases but is also talented at finding bugs in all your software. Whether she helped build it or not. When she is not helping Twilio Sendgrid send billions of emails a day, she is busy training her little replicas on also breaking computers and trolling her friends on Twitter. https://twitter.com/dbsmasherhttps://twillio.comhttps://blog.dbsmasher.com

Episode 43 - Damon Edwards - Rundeck

One of the best parts of attending DOES 2019 in Las Vegas was meeting so many of the leaders and innovators from the world of DevOps. Damon Edwards's work is extremely well known in the DevOps field and I was lucky enough to discuss his history during this interview.Damon Edwards is a Co-Founder of Rundeck Inc., the makers of Rundeck, the popular open source Operations Management Platform. Damon has spent over 15 years working with both the technology and business ends of IT Operations and is noted for being a leader in porting Lean and cutting-edge DevOps techniques to large-scale enterprise organizations. Damon is a frequent conference speaker and writer who focuses on DevOps, SRE, and Operations improvement topics. Damon is active in the international DevOps community, a co-host of the DevOps Cafe podcast, and a content chair for Gene Kim’s DevOps Enterprise Summit.https://twitter.com/damonedwardshttps://rundeck.com