Episode Details

About our guest:

Abby (she/her) is a Principal Engineer at Syntasso delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms on Kubernetes. Her keen interest in supporting internal development comes from over a decade of experience in consulting and product delivery roles across platform, site reliability, and quality engineering.

Abby is an international keynote speaker and is co-host of the #CoffeeOps London meetup. Outside of work, Abby spoils her pup Zino and enjoys playing team sports.

Find our guest on:

• LinkedIn
• X (Twitter)
• Hachyderm

Find us on:

• All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingout
• Adriana’s X (Twitter)
• Adriana’s Mastodon
• Adriana’s LinkedIn
• Adriana’s Instagram
• Adriana’s Bluesky

Show Links:

• Kratix
• Syntasso
• VCluster
• Heroku
• OpenTelemetry Collector
• OpenTelemetry Operator
• HUSTEF
• Civo Navigate
• Instruqt

Additional Links:

• Abby at DevOps Days London 2023
• Abby's Keynote Workshop at HUSTEF
• Adriana’s KubeCon talk on Platform Engineering with co-speaker Ana Margarita Medina (sched.com)
• Adriana’s Observability Day talk on the Observability of CI/CD Pipelines with co-speaker Reese Lee

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. And geeking out with me today is Abby Bangser. Welcome, Abby.

ABBY: Hello. Thank you for having me. Super excited to talk about all of those subjects, actually.

ADRIANA: Yay. I'm so excited to have you on. We had you for on call me maybe, and that was like a real treat. So I'm really happy that you're able to come on to geeking out. So, Abby, where are you calling from today?

ABBY: I am calling in from London. Despite this accent. London, UK.

ADRIANA: It's so cool to see where people are calling in from because there's always an assumption that it's like a North American focused podcast or probably American focused. And here we are. Super international.

ABBY: Yeah. I've learned from living abroad that if people are speaking with the English dictionary, I'm just super content that I can understand what they're saying. And I actually find myself completely missing accents all the time where someone will say, oh, the Scottish person. I'll be like, oh, shoot. I actually don't remember what accent they had or South African or wherever. A