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The One Where We Geek Out on Community with Taylor Dolezal
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About our guest:
Taylor Dolezal navigates the cloud native universe with a knack for puns and a keen eye for psychology. Living in the heart of LA, he blends tech innovation with mental insights, one punny cloud at a time. Avid reader, thinker, and cloud whisperer.
Find our guest on:
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 notes:
- The Comedy Store (Los Angeles)
- CNCF
- Blackberry Storm
- Blackberry Curve
- Jorge Castro
- PEP8 (Python)
- Elixir (programming language)
- OpenTelemetry for Elixir
- Zig (programming language)
- Chris Aniszczyk (CTO CNCF)
- Atomic Habits (Book)
- OpenCost (CNCF Project)
- Linux Foundation Member Summit
- Bob Killen (CNCF Sr. Technical Program Manager)
- Altadena Fire (California 2025)
Transcript:
ADRIANA:
Hey, fellow geeks. 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 a very special guest, Taylor Dolezal of the CNCF. Welcome, Taylor.
TAYLOR:
Yo. Howdy, howdy, howdy. Excited to be here. Thanks for inviting me.
ADRIANA:
Yeah, thanks for jumping on the podcast. And as we're recording this, you're in the midst of some really nasty wildfires in the LA area.
TAYLOR:
Yes. Oh, my gosh. It's been, literally a wild ride all around the city. But, thankfully, this this house where I'm at, everything's okay. Just a lot of ash, dust, debris, really uplifting to see the community rally with one another, to, on everything. Despite, you know, some people have lost homes. There's been some really challenging, really sad things that have happened. But seeing everybody jump in and want to help one another out, truly beautiful, seeing seeing everybody get so involved. There have been there have been things like the Comedy Store here, a big, like, world famous comedy place. They're having free shows and raising money. So like, things that I never would have expected Los Angeles to do, really, going forth and doing. It's beautiful. I love seeing that.
ADRIANA:
Oh, my God, that's so nice. And especially, you know, in the midst of all of the I don't know, there's just so, so much negativity in the world. It's so nice to just see, like a bright spot in the midst of this