On-Call Me Maybe

If you loved On-Call Me Maybe, check out OCMM co-host Adriana Villela's new podcast, Geeking Out, which she produces alongside her daughter, Hannah. Geeking Out is the spiritual successor to On-Call Me Maybe, and it features the same topics that you've come to know and love from OCMM, along with a fabulous guest lineup, including Hazel Weakly, Tim Banks, Abby Bangser, and Jennifer Moore, just to name a few. Geeking Out launched its first episode on September 5th, and so to give you a taste of what Geeking Out is all about, you can check out the first episode on this feed. If you love what you hear, please subscribe to Geeking Out wherever you get your podcasts. Or, find Geeking Out on YouTube at geekingout_pod.

About the guests:Adnan RahićAdnan is an author, failed startup founder, and ex-Free CodeCamp leader. Adnan has pent the last 5 years building open-source developer tooling in the Observability and Big Data space. He is currently leading the Developer Relations efforts for Tracetest.io. Part time professional boxer and body builder. Oscar ReyesOscar is a problem-solver, driven and motivated person. Oscar has 8 years of experience building backend cloud native systems, front end pixel-perfect applications and automated CI/CD pipelines. He is now the Lead Engineer at Tracetest.io. Ken HamricKen has 30+ years experience in developing software products, with a focus on enterprise testing solutions. He founded CrossBrowserTesting.com in 2008, which was acquired by Smartbear, a leader in the software testing category, in 2016. Ken stayed four years at Smartbear as VP of the web and mobile testing platforms. His most recent startup, Tracetest.io, is leading the way in utilizing observability data to enable deep integ

About the guest:Hannah:Hannah is a high school student living in Toronto, Canada. She’s also the daughter of OCMM co-host Adriana Villela. She loves showing off her artistic side, whether it’s through baking, sewing, painting, or knitting. You can see her creations on Instagram. Hannah has been bouldering since she was 3, and still enjoys going to the bouldering gym with her parents. Although both of her parents work in tech, Hannah would rather not spend her time sitting at a desk and staring at a computer all day. That’s why she’s planning on becoming a dentist when she grows up. Miss Unicorn:Miss Unicorn is Hannah’s trusty Squishmallow friend. She currently lives in Adriana’s home office in Toronto, alongside fellow Squishmallow buddies Barry the beaver, and Gerry the giraffe.Find our guest on:InstagramFind us on:On-Call Me Maybe Podcast TwitterOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast LinkedIn PageOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast MastodonOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast InstagramOn-Call Me Maybe TikTokOn Call Me Maybe Podcast YouTube Cha

About the guest:Hannah:Hannah is a high school student living in Toronto, Canada. She’s also the daughter of OCMM co-host Adriana Villela. She loves showing off her artistic side, whether it’s through baking, sewing, painting, or knitting. You can see her creations on Instagram. Hannah has been bouldering since she was 3, and still enjoys going to the bouldering gym with her parents. Although both of her parents work in tech, Hannah would rather not spend her time sitting at a desk and staring at a computer all day. That’s why she’s planning on becoming a dentist when she grows up. Miss Unicorn:Miss Unicorn is Hannah’s trusty Squishmallow friend. She currently lives in Adriana’s home office in Toronto, alongside fellow Squishmallow buddies Barry the beaver, and Gerry the giraffe.Find our guest on:InstagramFind us on:On-Call Me Maybe Podcast TwitterOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast LinkedIn PageOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast MastodonOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast InstagramOn-Call Me Maybe TikTokOn Call Me Maybe Podcast YouTube Cha

About the guest:Adrian Cockcroft is a technologist and strategist with broad experience from the bits to the boardroom, in both enterprise and consumer-oriented businesses, from startups to some of the largest companies in the world. He is equally at home with hardware and software, development, and operations. He’s best known as the cloud architect for Netflix during their trailblazing migration to AWS and was a very early practitioner and advocate of DevOps, microservices, and chaos engineering, helping bring these concepts to the wider audience they have today.Find our guest on:MastodonMediumGitHubFind us on:On-Call Me Maybe Podcast TwitterOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast LinkedIn PageOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast MastodonOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast InstagramOn-Call Me Maybe TikTokOn Call Me Maybe Podcast YouTube ChannelAdriana’s TwitterAdriana’s MastodonAdriana’s LinkedInAdriana’s InstagramAdriana’s BlueskyAna’s TwitterAna's MastodonAna’s LinkedInAna's InstagramAna’s BlueskyShow Links:NubankOrionXAssembly languageChatGPT

About the guest:Thilina (known as "T") is a Site Reliability Engineer at Lightstep. T has had a varied journey in tech spanning from support, project management, and systems engineering, which has eventually led him to focus on the "people" side of Reliability Engineering. He is extremely passionate about communications and how that plays a huge role in improving the performance of teams and increasing the reliability of their systems.Find our guest on:TwitterLinkedInGitHubInstagramBlogFind us on:On-Call Me Maybe Podcast TwitterOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast LinkedIn PageOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast MastodonOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast InstagramOn-Call Me Maybe TikTokOn Call Me Maybe Podcast YouTube ChannelAdriana’s TwitterAdriana’s MastodonAdriana’s LinkedInAdriana’s InstagramAdriana’s BlueskyAna’s TwitterAna's MastodonAna’s LinkedInAna's InstagramAna’s BlueskyShow Links:LightstepBrittish Colombia - WatershedsChatime BobaCiscoPowerPointLeading SRE with EmpathyChaos Engineering PrinciplesSLOs (Service Level Objectives)SLA

About the guest:Marylia is a Toronto-based Engineering Manager and Developer at Cockroach Labs, working on Cluster Observability. Before that, Marylia was a full-stack developer at IBM, working on internal Observability tools for DB2 products.Find our guest on:TwitterLinkedInGitHubFind us on:On-Call Me Maybe Podcast TwitterOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast LinkedIn PageOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast MastodonOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast InstagramOn-Call Me Maybe TikTokOn Call Me Maybe Podcast YouTube ChannelAdriana’s TwitterAdriana’s MastodonAdriana’s LinkedInAdriana’s InstagramAna’s TwitterAna's MastodonAna’s LinkedInAna's InstagramShow Links:Cockroach LabsChocolate VelvetiserUX - User ExperienceIBMCockroach DB Console to Observe and Troubleshoot SQLKubeHuddleToronto’s BeaverTail HistoryFlex FridaysAdditional Links:Charity Major’s The Engineer/Manager PendulumWill Larson’s Staff Engineering Blog & BookOpenTelemetry Collector alongside CockroachDBBrazilian Can Opener (Abridor de Latas)Transcript:ADRIANA: Hey, y'all. Welcome

About the guest:Iris Dyrmishi is a Tech Platform Engineer at FARFETCH. She is passionate about building systems that leverage Observability to ensure their performance, scalability and reliability. Recently, she has been working with OpenTelemetry and exploring how her organization can use it to improve our observability platform. Find our guest on:InstagramLinkedInFind us on:On-Call Me Maybe Podcast TwitterOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast LinkedIn PageOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast MastodonOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast InstagramOn-Call Me Maybe TikTokOn Call Me Maybe Podcast YouTube ChannelAdriana’s TwitterAdriana’s MastodonAdriana’s LinkedInAdriana’s InstagramAna’s TwitterAna's MastodonAna’s LinkedInAna's InstagramShow Links:FARFETCHAWSOpenTelemetryOpenTelemetry Helm ChartsJaeger TracingPrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetry CollectorTail-Based SamplingDistributed TracingThe Evolution of Game Days Transcript:ADRIANA: Hey, y'all. Welcome to On-Call Me Maybe, the podcast about DevOps, SRE, observability principles, on-call, and everyth

About the guest:Sasha Rosenbaum is Principal at a new venture, Ergonautic. With a degree in Computer Science, an MBA, and two decades of experience across development, operations, product management, and technical sales, Sasha brings a unique perspective to optimizing the organizational flow of work, bridging gaps with empathy and insight.Find our guest on:TwitterLinkedInMastodonFind us on:On-Call Me Maybe Podcast TwitterOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast LinkedIn PageOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast MastodonOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast InstagramOn-Call Me Maybe TikTokOn Call Me Maybe Podcast YouTube ChannelAdriana’s TwitterAdriana’s MastodonAdriana’s LinkedInAdriana’s InstagramAna’s TwitterAna's MastodonAna’s LinkedInAna's InstagramShow Links:ErgonauticDevOpsDevOps Days ChicagoFileZilla[Video] “Single Person of Failure” by Sasha RosenbaumGoogle SRE BookAndrew Clay ShaferTranscript:ADRIANA: Hey, y'all. Welcome to On-Call Me Maybe, the podcast about DevOps, SRE, observability principles, on-call, and everything in between. I am you

About the guest:Jewel has been shitposting and sadtweeting her way to a comfortable tech career for over a decade in community and consumer product engineering as a software engineer, manager, and all-the-hats start-upper.  She hasn't accidentally taken down production in a whole month, mostly thanks to PTO.Find our guest on:TwitterLinkedInGitHubInstagramMastodonFind us on:On-Call Me Maybe Podcast TwitterOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast LinkedIn PageOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast MastodonOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast InstagramOn-Call Me Maybe TikTokOn Call Me Maybe Podcast YouTube ChannelAdriana’s TwitterAdriana’s MastodonAdriana’s LinkedInAdriana’s InstagramAna’s TwitterAna's MastodonAna’s LinkedInAna's InstagramShow Links:RedditRen Faire (Renaissance Fair)Commodore 64Jumpman (Video Game)TI-82 (Calculator)TI-83 (Calculator)Epic (Medical Records)Epic GamesWorkdaySonic FoundryImgurmipsytipsy (Charity Majors on Twitter)The Engineer/Manager Pendulum - charity.wtfEngineering Management: The Pendulum or the Ladder - charity.wtfPop P

About the guest:Jenny Gee-Link is a Quality Assurance Automation Engineer at Tangerine. She has an extensive background in Mobile Applications, Wireless Technologies, and Telecommunications, having previously worked at large Telecommunications companies such as Motorola. When she’s not working, she always seems to have something on the go. Her spare time is spent on volunteer work with her kids’ school and on the board of directors for the local daycare, picking up another language, tinkering on the piano, and even out biking on the local trails. Binge-watching the latest shows? Nah. Life’s way too short for all that!Find our guest on:LinkedInFind us on:On-Call Me Maybe Podcast TwitterOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast LinkedIn PageOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast MastodonOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast InstagramOn-Call Me Maybe TikTokOn Call Me Maybe Podcast YouTube ChannelAdriana’s TwitterAdriana’s MastodonAdriana’s LinkedInAdriana’s InstagramAna’s TwitterAna's MastodonAna’s LinkedInAna's InstagramShow Links:Tangerine BankPerlMotor

About the guest:Daniel Kim (He/Him) is a Principal Developer Relations Engineer at New Relic and the founder of Bit Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to making technology accessible to underserved communities. He wants to inspire generations of students in tech to be the best they can be through inclusive, accessible developer education. He is passionate about diversity and inclusion in tech, good food, and dad jokes.Find our guest on:Daniel’s TwitterDaniel’s LinkedinDaniel’s TwitchFind us on:On-Call Me Maybe Podcast TwitterOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast LinkedIn PageOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast MastodonOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast InstagramOn-Call Me Maybe TikTokOn Call Me Maybe Podcast YouTube ChannelAdriana’s TwitterAdriana’s MastodonAdriana’s LinkedInAdriana’s InstagramAna’s TwitterAna's MastodonAna’s LinkedInAna's InstagramShow Links:New RelicOpenTelemetryCNCF Cloud Native Interactive LandscapeObservability Day - @ KubeCon EU 2023KafkaCassandraDistributed Tracing for Kafka with OpenTelemetry with Daniel Kim at

About the guest:Jen Shute Benson (she/her/hers) is a Senior Director of Platform Engineering at Slalom Build. She has worked for over 25 years in the tech industry. Her early career included quality engineering, application support engineering, and systems engineering. She moved into leadership and has managed Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Solutions, DevOps, and Platform Engineering teams. She has managed two major cloud migrations at large-scale enterprises before moving into the world of consulting. At Slalom Build, in addition to leading Platform Engineering teams in 3 geographic locations, she supports multiple markets and clients and is heavily involved in ID&E initiatives within her Platform Engineering capability and at the Slalom Build level. Jen also volunteers as a mentor for Slalom’s Women Who Build program. She is a member of Cloud Girls and co-chairs the membership committee. Cloud Girls is a non-profit organization dedicated to community building and celebrating the success of women in cloud c

About the guest:Michael Kehoe is an author, speaker and Sr Staff Security Engineer at Confluent. Previously he was a Sr Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at LinkedIn architecting LinkedIn’s move to Microsoft Azure. Before graduating with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Queensland (Australia), Michael interned at NASA Ames Research Center building small-satellites known as Phonesats.While working at LinkedIn, Michael led the company's work on Incident Response, Disaster Recovery, Visibility Engineering & Reliability Principles. He has also been embedded with the profile, traffic, espresso (KV Store) teams. After leading LinkedIn’s last physical data-center build, he is now the architect for how LinkedIn builds its infrastructure in Azure.Michael has spoken at numerous events all over the world and has authored the books "Cloud Native Infrastructure with Azure" and “Reducing MTTD for High Severity Incidents”.Find our guest on:TwitterLinkedInGitHubPersonal BlogFind us on:On-Ca

About the guest:Shingi Kanhukamwe is an Executive Transformation Advisor working with Export Development Canada. He has 11 years of Agile experience and 9 years focused on leading transformation initiatives in large, complex organizations. He has worked at various financial organizations and has also worked as a consultant. Find our guest on:LinkedInFind us on:On-Call Me Maybe Podcast TwitterOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast LinkedIn PageOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast MastodonOn-Call Me Maybe Podcast InstagramOn-Call Me Maybe TikTokOn Call Me Maybe Podcast YouTube ChannelAdriana’s TwitterAdriana’s MastodonAdriana’s LinkedInAdriana’s InstagramAna’s TwitterAna's MastodonAna’s LinkedInAna's InstagramShow Links:Content ManagementIBMDigitizationCloud-Native TransformationSociotechnical systemsMainframeNetflix’s culture explainedTranscript:ADRIANA: Hey, y'all. Welcome to On-Call Me Maybe, the podcast about DevOps, SRE, observability principles, on-call, and everything in between. I am your host, Adriana Villela, with my awesome c

Author and SLO guru extraordinaire Alex Hidalgo talks to hosts Adriana and Ana about starting out in tech young, giving up on tech and getting a degree in Philosophy, finding his way back to tech, and eventually discovering a passion for Service Level Objectives (SLOs). Alex digs deep into SLOs, answering questions like: What are SLOs? Why are they important? How do they fit into reliability? He also talks about the OpenSLO project, which aims to be a vendor-neutral way to codify and standardize the definition of SLOs.About the guests:Alex Hidalgo is the Principal Reliability Advocate at Nobl9 and the author of "Implementing Service Level Objectives." During his career, he has developed a deep love for sustainable operations, proper observability, and using SLO data to drive discussions and make decisions. Alex's previous jobs have included IT support, network security, restaurant work, t-shirt design, and hosting game shows at bars. When not sharing his passion for technology with others, you can find him sc

We’re baaaaack! Adriana and Ana are back with OCMM Season 2, with new branding, new guests, and new banter! In this episode, our hosts talk about practicing sustainability in tech and about the importance of good mental health practices while on vacation (e.g., unplugging from work). They also talk about some of the exciting projects that they are working on in 2023 and their SRE wishlist for 2023.About us:Adriana Villela is a Sr. Developer Advocate at Lightstep, based in Toronto, Canada, with over 20 years of experience in technology. She focuses on helping companies achieve reliability greatness by leveraging Observability, SRE, and DevOps practices. Before Lightstep, she was a Sr. Manager at Tucows, running both a Platform Engineering team and an Observability Practices team. Adriana has also worked at various large-scale enterprises in both individual contributor and leadership roles, including Bank of Montreal, Ceridian, and Accenture. Adriana has a popular technical blog on Medium, co-leads the OpenTele

About us:Adriana is a Sr. Developer Advocate at Lightstep, based out of Toronto, Canada, with over 20 years of experience in tech. She focuses on helping companies achieve reliability greatness by through Observability and Incident Response practices. Before Lightstep, she was a Sr. Manager at Tucows/Wavelo. During this time, she defined technical direction in the organization, running both a Platform Engineering team, and an Observability Practices team. Adriana has also worked at various large-scale enterprises, including Bank of Montreal (BMO), Ceridian, and Accenture. At BMO, she was responsible for defining and driving the bank's enterprise-wide DevOps practice, which impacted business and technology teams across multiple geographic locations across the globe. Adriana has a widely-read technical blog on Medium, which is known for its casual and approachable tone to complex technical topics, and its high level of technical detail. She is also a HashiCorp Ambassador. Find her on Mastodon at @adrianamvillel

In this episode, we’ve got the whole Lightstep DevRel team together! Austin and Ted join Adriana and Ana to talk a LOT about coffee and OpenTelemetry. Because there’s no better combination! Ted and Austin also share stories of how they got started in tech and how, like many of our guests, their path to tech was the “crooked path,” - which basically means that there’s always an awesome story behind it!About the guests:Austin Parker is the Head of Developer Relations at Lightstep and has been creating problems with computers for most of his life. He’s a maintainer of the OpenTelemetry project, the host of several podcasts, the organizer of Deserted Island DevOps, an infrequent Twitch streamer, a conference speaker, and more. When he’s not working, you can find him posting on Twitter, cooking, and parenting. His most recent book is Distributed Tracing in Practice, published by O’Reilly Media.Ted Young is the Director of Open Source Development at Lightstep and one of the core maintainers of the OpenTracing proje

HashiCorp Ambassadors unite! Riaan joins Ana and fellow HashiCorp Ambassador Adriana and talks about his love for open-source work, how he got started with his own open-source project, HashiQube, and how our work in technology is paving the way for the next generation of innovations around software delivery and reliability. He highlights the importance of just putting your code out there so that others can iterate around it and make it better. He also reminds us to get comfortable with failure early on and that the main takeaway of DevOps is that it enables us to make just make things better.About the guest:Riaan is a Principal Consultant with Servian, based out of Brisbane, Australia. Originally from South Africa, Riaan has worked for multinational companies in China, Portugal, Germany, the US, and Australia. He has a keen interest in Automation, Infrastructure as Code, and Configuration as Code, with a strong focus on DevOps ways of working.Riaan is also a HashiCorp Ambassador.In his spare time, Riaan enjoy