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The One Where We Geek Out on Platform Engineering with Hazel Weakly
Description
About our guest:
Hazel Weakly (she/her/hers) spends her days working on building out teams of humans as well as the infrastructure, systems, automation, and tooling to make life better for others. She’s worked at a variety of companies, across a wide range of tech, and knows that the hardest problems to solve are the social ones. Hazel currently serves as a Director on the board of the Haskell Foundation and is fondly known as the Infrastructure Witch of Hachyderm (a popular Mastodon instance). She also created the official Haskell “setup” Github Action and helps maintain it. She enjoys traveling to speak at conferences and sharing what she’s learned with others.
One of her favorite things is watching someone light up when they understand something for the first time, and a life goal of hers is to help as many people as possible experience that joy. She also loves swing dancing, both as a leader and a follower.
Find our guest on:
Find us on:
- All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingout
- Adriana’s Twitter
- Adriana’s Mastodon
- Adriana’s LinkedIn
- Adriana’s Instagram
- Adriana’s Bluesky
Show Links:
- Haskell
- Erlang
- Typescript
- Blog post: So You Want to Hire for Developer Tooling
- SmallTalk
- Object-Oriented Programming
- VisualBasic (classic)
- QBasic
- QBasic Nibbles game
- QBasic Gorrila game
- OpenSSL
- Bleeding Heart (Heartbleed bug)
- Cost Center
Additional Links:
- Video: Hacking the Pachyderm: Scaling Servers and People
- Video: OpenTelemetry Q&A Feat. Hazel Weakly
- Catch Hazel at QCon 2023 in San Francisco
Transcript:
ADRIANA: Hey, y'all. Welcome to Geeking Out, the podcast about all geeky aspects of software delivery, DevOps, Observability, Reliability, and everything in between.
I'm your host, Adriana Villela, coming to you from Toronto, Canada. With me today, I have Hazel Weekly. Welcome, Hazel.
HAZEL: Hey there. I'm glad to be here and I'm really looking forward to this episode. It's going to be a lot of fun.
ADRIANA: Yay. Super excited. So first things first. Where are you cal