Mandy Waite joins Mark and Melanie to share what is developer relations and how trust and empathy are key to its success. We discuss meeting developers where they are and the wide variety of differing communities that exist across the technology ecosystem.

Mandy Waite

Mandy Waite has worked at Google for nearly 8 years, 6 of which have been spent growing and nurturing the Cloud Advocacy team. She heads up the Infrastructure and Ops Advocacy team in Google Cloud with a focus on Cloud Native, DevOps, SRE, Observability and Security.

Cool things of the week

Better cost control with Google Cloud Billing programmatic notifications blog
Music in Motion: a Firebase and IoT story blog
Google Cloud Codelabs and Challenges codelabs
Kubernetes Podcast site and blog

Interview

Google Cloud Platform site
#46 Borg and K8s with John Wilkes podcast
#118 OpenCensus with Morgan McLean and JBD podcast
Felipe Hoffa & BigQuery reddit, blog and podcast
Livestreaming with Jen Tong Twitch, Holden Karau Twitch, and Chris Broadfoot Twitch
Ben Treynor on What is ‘Site Reliability Engineering’ interview
Solomon Hykes at dotScale on Docker video
Istio site and #85 Istio with Varun Talwar and Sven Mawson podcast
Kubernetes site
Docker site
The Core Competencies of Developer Relations blog

Question of the week

Where do I go to learn about GDPR in regards to Google Cloud Platform?

Google Cloud: Ready for GDPR blog
Google Cloud & the General Data Protection Regulation site

Where can you find us next?

Mark is speaking at the Monthly SF Game Development Community, presenting on You Can’t Just Add More Servers on May the 30th in San Francisco.

Melanie is speaking at a joint WiMLDS and PyLadies event “Paths to Data Science” on June 26th. More details to come.

Developer Relations with Mandy Waite

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Developer Relations with Mandy Waite