Guest Bio:

Marcia Villalba is Senior Developer Advocate for AWS Serverless, and a public speaker.

She’s also a very active content creator, she posts weekly on her “FooBar” youtube channel content related to serverless and the cloud. She also has a separate channel in Spanish called “Marcia y La Nube” and is also the host of the Podcast “Charlas Técnicas de AWS”.

For the past 20 years, she has been designing and developing software. Marcia worked in all the different stages of building software that scales and performs. She has deep knowledge of building applications in the cloud, with serverless and using DevOps processes.

Her passion is designing systems that can take full advantage of the cloud and embrace the DevOps culture. She writes regularly in the AWS News Blog about new upcoming AWS launches. 

Timestamps:

• 0:56 Speakers introduction
• 4:00 Customer engagement
• 6:44 Community feedback
• 8:25  Events flexibility post pandemic
• 18:10 Serverless services in AWS
• 23:20 Things to learn in the Serverless space
• 25:34 The most exciting tech things
• 29:12 Favourite Sci-fi tech
• 30:34 Diversity and inclusion
• 32:45 Lifting others up
• 35:45 Community
• 36:53 Episode Wrap-up

Links mentioned in the episode:

• Pink programming: https://www.pinkprogramming.se/en/
• AWS restart: https://aws.amazon.com/training/restart/
• AWS CDK community https://cdk.dev/ 
• Free codecamp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/

Connect with Marcia on:

• https://marcia.dev/
• https://www.youtube.com/c/FooBar_codes
• https://twitter.com/mavi888uy
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/marciavillalba

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• https://twitter.com/AnnieTalvasto
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/talvasto/

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• https://twitter.com/karlgots
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Guest Bio:

Matt Stratton is a Staff Developer Advocate at Pulumi, founder and co-host of the popular Arrested DevOps podcast, and the global chair of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.

Matt has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and cloud engineering focused events worldwide.

He’s passionate about helping organizations use awesome tools to focus on what makes them special and drive relevant cultural change. He truly believe that DevOps can revolutionize IT, or at least make it more fun to go to work. 

Matt lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Diet Coke. Matt is the keeper of the Thought Leaderboard for the DevOps Party Games online game show and you can find him on Twitter at @mattstratton.

Quote

“Things that are meant for machines have them be for machines. Json is not supposed to be read by humans or much less written by humans.”

-Matt Stratton -

Timestamps:

• 0:18 Speaker Introduction
• 1:35 Returning to in person conferences
• 4:59 Friendships during the pandemic
• 6:31 What does Matt’s average day looks like?
• 11:40 Conferences: virtual only vs in person
• 20:28 Pulumi approach to IaC
• 24:48 What should developers learn next?
• 27:33 Future of Tech
• 29:52 Favourite Sci-fi Tech and changes
• 31:54 Diversity and inclusion
• 37:26 How to lift others up
• 39:09 Community
• 42:16 Episode Wrap up

Learn more about the DevOps Days community at https://devopsdays.org/.

Connect with Matt on:

• https://speaking.mattstratton.com/
• https://twitter.com/mattstratton
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattstratton/
• https://github.com/mattstratton
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Guest Bio

Christos Matskas is a Senior Program Manager working as a Developer Advocate for the Microsoft Identity Division. His role involves helping developers write more secure and robust software, leveraging the power of Identity and Cloud.

Before joining Microsoft, he was a successful entrepreneur collaborating with companies such as MarkIT, Lockheed Martin, and Barclays. He routinely works with the Azure Active Directory, MS Graph, and Managed Identities and he’s got 15 yrs of experience writing Software on the .NET stack.

Christos contributes regularly to numerous OSS projects and works closely with the developer community to make the space bigger and better. He’s also a dad, husband, speaker, and passionate streamer.

Timestamps

• 0:45 Speakers Introduction
• 1:37 Christos typical day
• 3:12 The transformation of Cloud Advocacy
• 7:08 Which accounts to follow on TikTok/Discord
• 8:51 External and Internal communication
• 13:21 Managed Identities
• 19:47 Microsoft.Identity.Web Library
• 23:47 Securing Cloud Identity in the future
• 29:57 Managed Identity in Cosmos DB
• 32:29 Future of Tech
• 37:30 Diversity and inclusion
• 40:49 Community
• 42:05 Episode Wrap-up

Connect with Christos on:

• https://cmatskas.com
• https://twitter.com/christosmatskas
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/christosmatskas/
• https://www.instagram.com/cmatskas/?hl=en
• https://github.com/cmatskas

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