It turns out, you don’t need to step outside to observe the clouds. On this episode, we’re joined by Chronosphere Field CTO Ian Smith. He and Corey delve into the innovative solutions Chronosphere offers, share insights from Ian’s experience in the industry, and discuss the future of cloud-native technologies. Whether you're a seasoned cloud professional or new to the field, this conversation with Ian Smith is packed with valuable perspectives and actionable takeaways.

Show Highlights:

(0:00) Intro

(0:42) Chronosphere sponsor read

(1:53) The role of Chief of Staff at Chronosphere

(2:45) Getting recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant

(4:42) Talking about the buying process

(8:26) The importance of observability

(10:18) Guiding customers as a vendor

(12:19) Chronosphere sponsor read

(12:46) What should you do as an observability buyer

(16:01) Helping orgs understand observability

(19:56) Avoiding toxicly positive endorsements

(24:15) Being transparent as a vendor

(27:43) The myth of "winner take all"

(30:02) Short term fixes vs. long term solutions

(33:54) Where you can find more from Ian and Chronosphere

About Ian Smith
Ian Smith is Field CTO at Chronosphere where he works across sales, marketing, engineering and product to deliver better insights and outcomes to observability teams supporting high-scale cloud-native environments. Previously, he worked with observability teams across the software industry in pre-sales roles at New Relic, Wavefront, PagerDuty and Lightstep.

Links

• Chronosphere: https://chronosphere.io/?utm_source=duckbill-group&utm_medium=podcast
• Ian’s Twitter: https://x.com/datasmithing
• Ian’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ismith314159/

Sponsor

Chronosphere: https://chronosphere.io/?utm_source=duckbill-group&utm_medium=podcast

In this Screaming in the Cloud Replay, we’re revisiting our conversation with Miles War — perhaps the closest thing Google Cloud has to Corey Quinn. With a wit and sharpness at hand, and an entire backup retinue of trumpets, trombones, and various brass horns, Miles is here to join the conversation about what all is going on at Google Cloud. Miles breaks down SADA and their partnership with Google Cloud. He goes into some details on what GCP has been up to, and talks about the various areas they are capitulating forward. Miles talks about working with Thomas Kurian, who is the only who counts since he follows Corey on Twitter, and the various profundities that GCP has at hand.

Show Highlights:

(0:00) Intro

(1:38) Sonrai Security sponsor read

(2:40) Reliving Google Cloud Next 2021

(7:24) Unlikable, yet necessary change at Google

(11:41) Lack of Focus in the Cloud

(18:03) Google releases benefitting developers

(20:57) The rise of distributed databases

(24:12) Backblaze sponsor read

(24:41) Arguments for (and against) going multi-cloud

(26:49) The problem with Google Cloud outages

(33:01) Data transfer fees

(37:49) Where you can find more from Miles

About Miles Ward

As Chief Technology Officer at SADA, Miles Ward leads SADA’s cloud strategy and solutions capabilities. His remit includes delivering next-generation solutions to challenges in big data and analytics, application migration, infrastructure automation, and cost optimization; reinforcing our engineering culture; and engaging with customers on their most complex and ambitious plans around Google Cloud.

Previously, Miles served as Director and Global Lead for Solutions at Google Cloud. He founded the Google Cloud’s Solutions Architecture practice, launched hundreds of solutions, built Style-Detection and Hummus AI APIs, built CloudHero, designed the pricing and TCO calculators, and helped thousands of customers like Twitter who migrated the world’s largest Hadoop cluster to public cloud and Audi USA who re-platformed to k8s before it was out of alpha, and helped Banco Itau design the intercloud architecture for the bank of the future.

Before Google, Miles helped build the AWS Solutions Architecture team. He wrote the first AWS Well-Architected framework, proposed Trusted Advisor and the Snowmobile, invented GameDay, worked as a core part of the Obama for America 2012 “tech” team, helped NASA stream the Curiosity Mars Rover landing, and rebooted Skype in a pinch.

Earning his Bachelor of Science in Rhetoric and Media Studies from Willamette University, Miles is a three-time technology startup entrepreneur who also plays a mean electric sousaphone.

Links:

• SADA.com: https://sada.com
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/milesward
• Email: miles@sada.com

Original episode:
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/gcp-s-many-profundities-with-miles-ward/

Sponsors

Sonrai Security: sonrai.co/access24

Backblaze: backblaze.com

After years of trying, Corey has finally convinced a TAM to come on the show! In this lively episode, AWS Senior Technical Account Manager Shlomo Dubrowin takes the mic to share his fascinating experiences dealing with cloud complexities. Listen in as Shlomo recounts building AWS Reasonable Account Defaults from scratch, stresses the importance of writing a solid application, and shares the benefits of leveraging GenAI to help maintain his work. Don't miss this entertaining and insightful conversation that could save you a few bucks!

Show Highlights:

(0:00) Intro

(0:42) Chronosphere sponsor read

(1:15) Finally getting a TAM on the show

(2:24) Providing quality customer service as a TAM

(5:31) AWS Reasonable Account Defaults

(11:01) What went into crafting AWS Reasonable Accounts Defaults

(12:20) Chronosphere sponsor read

(12:54) Writing a program that won't break easily

(17:25) Optimizing billing data

(19:53) Transparency in costs

(21:27) Expanding AWS Reasonable Account Defaults

(23:34) Further optimizing AWS Reasonable Account Defaults in the future

(26:18) Building with GenAI

(29:01) Where you can find more from Shlomo

About Shlomo Dubrowin

Shlomo Dubrowin has been a TAM for over 6 years supporting AWS customers from startups through to Fortune 100 companies. He has spoken at re:Invent twice and has specialized in Cost Optimization. Shlomo has been in the tech industry since 1994. And he lives with his wife, son and 2 dogs.

Links

• Clouded Torah: https://www.clouded-torah.org/

Sponsor

Chronosphere: https://chronosphere.io/?utm_source=duckbill-group&utm_medium=podcast