Episode Details

About our guest:

Doug Ramirez is a Principal Architect at Uplight, where he aligns his passion for software and the planet.

Find our guest on:

• LinkedIn

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:

• Claudius Crozet (engineer)
• SPARCstation
• pine (email client)
• PDP-11
• SmallTalk
• The Y2K Problem
• VisualBasic (classic)
• Delphi (software)
• RTFM
• BASIC (programming language)
• Assembly Language (assembler)
• Code: The Inner Language of Computer Hardware and Software, by Charles Petzold
• Team Topologies
• Cervical collar (c collar)
• Sagar splint

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 Doug Ramirez. Is welcome, Doug.

DOUG: Hi. It's nice to see you again.

ADRIANA: Nice to see you, too. Where are you calling in from today, Doug?

DOUG: I'm in central Virginia. I live in a small town called Crozet. It's a French word. It was named after a guy who was an engineer and built or architected a tunnel through the Blue Ridge Mountains, which is right in my backyard here.

ADRIANA: Oh, cool.

DOUG: Yeah, small town, pretty cool. Come visit.

ADRIANA: Awesome. And I'm excited because we're in the same time zone. A lot of folks that I interact with, even for this podcast, are like west coast. I've had a few in Europe, but, yeah.

DOUG: So it's like, yeah, I'm constantly doing more and more these days just doing time zone math because there's...

ADRIANA: Oh, yeah, right?

DOUG: ...the proliferation of telecommunications.

ADRIANA: Very true. Yeah. I even know now what my time zone is in GMT.

DOUG: Wow, that's impressive.

ADRIANA: Yes, I finally remember it now. Okay,