Episode Details

About our guest:

Daniela Baron is Staff Engineer at FundThrough. She has over 20 years of experience delivering software solutions for a variety of product, project and SaaS based companies with many languages and frameworks including Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (Node.js, React, Ember, Angular), Go, Python, and Java/Spring/Hibernate. Specialties include analyzing complex business requirements, writing maintainable code, implementing best practices such as linting and code coverage, engineering documentation, test automation, continuous integration/continuous deployment, and mentoring. Passionate about continuing education.

Find our guest on:

• LinkedIn
• Daniela's Blog

Find us on:

• All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingout
• All of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/adrianamvillela

Show Links:

• MOOCs
• Pluralsight
• Tuts+
• Wes Bos (instructor)
• Erik Kennedy (instructor)
• GitHub Gist
• Markdown
• OpenStack
• HashiCorp Vault
• HashiCorp Consul
• HashiCorp Nomad
• HashiCorp Nomad CLI
• Nomad Jobspec
• Nomad Template
• Braintree
• Gatsby

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, I have Danielle Baron. Welcome, Daniela.

DANIELA: Hi, thanks for having me.

ADRIANA: Super excited to have you on. So where are you calling from, Daniela?

DANIELA: Also Toronto, Canada.

ADRIANA: Yay, Toronto. Okay, I'm going to start with some lightning round questions. First off, are you a lefty or a righty?

DANIELA: Right handed.

ADRIANA: All right, do you prefer iPhone or Android?

DANIELA: I've actually used both. And I prefer iPhone mostly because Apple seems to send security patches for a lot longer than I've gotten on the Android phones in the past. So if you're not getting security patches, your phone is basically a very expensive paperweight. So that's why stick with iPhone.

ADRIANA: Yeah, fair enough. Awesome. Next question. Mac, Linux or Windows? What's your preference?

DANIELA: Yeah, that's another one that I've used all of them, and I'd say I'm happiest when I'm using a Mac. It has all the Unix utilities, a nice customizable terminal, but things just work for the most part. Like if I need to do video conferencing or watch YouTube videos, I don't need to fuss with it. So I feel li