Today’s guest on Cloud Gossip is Marcia Villalba! Marcia is a Senior Developer Advocate for AWS Serverless, speaker, organizer, and content creator. Today we’re going to learn about what her role is like and how she has been operating internally and externally during the pandemic. Marcia is going to give us her opinion on virtual events and discuss who can really benefit from them going forward. She’s going to share her expertise about serverless services in AWS, their origin, how they work, their benefits and future. We’ll receive some advice on what’s good to learn next in the serverless space and hear about some of Marcia’s favourite AWS serverless features. Marcia is going to talk about some of her favourite communities and diversity and inclusion initiatives and her experience with them. And we’ll also chat about some fantasy sci-fi tech and imagine what the future of tech holds for us. NOTE: This episode was recorded in June 2021, so some terms and technologies might have changed. Follow Marcia for up-to date updates on AWS Serverless. Enjoy the episode and don’t miss the links and resources mentioned in the episode, you can find them at the bottom of the page.

Today’s guest on Cloud Gossip is Matt Stratton! Matt is a Staff Developer Advocate at Pulumi and the global chair of the DevOpsDays set of conferences We’re going to learn about his return to in person conferences after the pandemic, his first impressions, and what he thinks about virtual conferences. Matt is going to explain how not being able to see people in person for long periods of time has changed some of the friendship dynamics in the community. We’re going to learn what his average day looks like and we’ll better understand his role and responsibilities at Pulumi, and and understand how that system works and differs from Chef. As always we’ll ask him our favourite questions from our recurring segments and hear is takes on the future of tech, diversity and inclusion, sci-fi tech, community and ways to lift others up. Enjoy the episode and don’t miss the links and resources mentioned in the episode, you can find them at the bottom of the page.

Today’s guest on Cloud Gossip is Christos Matskas! Christos is a Senior Program Manager working in the Microsoft Identity Division as Developer Advocate. We’re going to learn about his role and challenges and how Cloud Advocacy has evolved over time. Christos is going to explain why he’s active on TikTok and Discord and the role these platforms play in helping him reach more people and developers. We’re going to hear about Managed Identities, what they are and how they can help solve current problems in the cyber-security space. Christos is going to talk about Microsoft.Identity.Web and Cosmos DB as well as sharing his thoughts on the future of Cloud Identity. He is going to explain what are the up-and-coming technologies that excite him the most and what he thinks we should focus on improving in the coming years. We’re also going to discuss the current situation regarding Diversity and Inclusion and learn about some communities that played a special role in Christos’ development. Enjoy the episode and don’t miss the links and resources mentioned in the episode, you can find them at the bottom of the page.

Today’s guest on Cloud Gossip is Lucas Käldström! Lucas is a Kubernetes contributor and CNCF ambassador. We are going to learn about how he joined the Kubernetes project very early on when it barely had any users and learn about its development and behind the scenes. Lucas is going to explain who the Kubernetes contributors are and what they do, what are special interest groups, working groups and how decisions are made within the project. We are going to hear about his background and what drove him to Tech, how he keeps learning new things, and the advice he has for people that want to get into tech and open-source communities. Lucas is going to talk about the core values of Kubernetes, why he likes that community so much, and share with us interesting stories and other communities dear to him. He is going to explain how he likes to integrate ethics, diversity, and inclusion, and sustainability into his life and what can we do to do that too. Enjoy the episode and don’t miss the links and resources mentioned in the episode, you can find them at the bottom of the page.

Today’s guest on Cloud Gossip is Henni Roini! Henni works as Marketing Manager at HubSpot and she’s going to share with us her insights and opinions about the past, present, and future of SaaS marketing. We’re going to learn about her role at HubSpot and she’ll explain to us why she enjoys it so much and why she feels so strongly about the company and its mission. Henni is going to explain the importance of marketing within the organization and how it’s crucial to provide a successful customer experience. We’re going to hear about some of her favorite marketing tools and how she uses them to provide the support needed to the sales team. Henni is going to talk about the key skills needed to be a SaaS marketer and why education and learning through tools like the HubSpot academy are essential to creating the marketers of tomorrow. She is going to share with us her thoughts on the future of tech, diversity, and inclusion, and communities, ultimately giving us some practical tips on how to lift others up. Enjoy the episode and don’t miss the links and resources mentioned in the episode, you can find them at the bottom of the page.

Today’s guest on Cloud Gossip is Martyn Coupland! Martyn works as Principal Solution Architect at Ensono, and he’s an Azure MVP and DevOps Ambassador at DevOps Institute. Martyn is going to talk about his role at Ensono and what he has learned from that and from his past experiences. We’re going to learn his definition of DevOps and how these roles have impacted the industry, the technology, and the developers. Martyn is going to talk about the Cloud-Native philosophy and how containers are not always the answer. And we are going to hear his opinions about blockchain, smart hardware, and the value of data. Diversity and inclusion are very important to us and we are going to hear Martyn’s thoughts on how to promote them in the industry and in everyday life. Enjoy the episode and don’t miss the links and resources that Martyn shared with us, you can find them at cloudgossip.net.

Today’s guest on Cloud Gossip is Fabian Williams! Fabian works as Senior Program Manager on the Microsoft Graph Team. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was awarded as Microsoft MVP several times. Fabian is going to talk to us about his program manager role at Graph and explain what the components of his daily routine are. Enjoy the episode and don’t miss the links and resources that Fabian shared with us; you can find them at cloudgossip.net.

Today’s guest on Cloud Gossip is Tom Kerkhove! Tom works as an Azure Architect at Codit, he’s a Github Star, CNCF Ambassador, Azure MVP and he’s active as maintainer of Promitor and Keda. Tom is going to talk to us about how the world of Open-Source projects works, the importance of supporting them, and his personal experience as a maintainer.

Today’s guest on Cloud Gossip is Isidora Katanic​! Isidora is the ​Co-Founder of the event management company districtUP and and a Cloud & Datacenter Management MVP. She co-hosts the video series "Head in the cloud, Heart in the community".

Today we are joined by a very special guest, Adi Polak! She works as a Senior Software Engineer and Developer Advocate at Microsoft.