Deserted Island DevOps with Austin Parker
from Screaming in the Cloud Hosted by Corey Quinn
About Austin Austin makes problems with computers, and sometimes solves them. He’s an open source maintainer, observability nerd, devops junkie, and poster. You can find him ignoring HN threads and making dumb jokes on Twitter. He wrote a book about distributed tracing, taught some college courses, streams on Twitch, and also ran a DevOps conference in Animal Crossing. Links: Lightstep: https://lightstep.com/ Lightstep Sandbox: https://lightstep.com/sandbox Desert Island DevOps: https://desertedislanddevops.com lastweekinAWS.com Resources: https://lastweekinAWS.com/resources Distributed Tracing in Practice: https://www.amazon.com/Distributed-Tracing-Practice-Instrumenting-Microservices/dp/1492056634 Twitter: https://twitter.com/austinlparker Personal Blog: https://aparker.io
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Austin Parker is a principal developer advocate at LightStep. Prior to this position, he worked as a software architect at Apprenda, an adjunct instruction and researcher at the University of Albany, a telecommunications specialist at Alltech, and as a support specialist for Verizon and Sprint. Join Corey and Austin as they discuss how the rise of distributed workforces has made observability a top concern for organizations, the many lives Austin led before getting into DevRel and how he ended up in DevRel in the first place, how Deserted Island DevOps came to be during the pandemic, what Austin believes many companies get wrong about developer marketing, why Austin believes teams don’t talk enough, the importance of biasing toward openness and transparency, and more.
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