Rocket to the Cloud 🚀☁️ is a new interview series, presented by the <a href="https://www.booster.cloud/" rel="nofollow">Booster platform</a>, an open-source initiative by <a href="https://www.theagilemonkeys.com" rel="nofollow">The Agile Monkeys</a>, where hosts Nick and Mario interview leaders and decision-makers in software development from many different organizations. Our guests share their experiences and what went into their decision-making process when innovating and dealing with complex business and technology problems, focusing on modern web technologies and cloud architectures. This interview series aims to inspire senior software engineers to embrace the cloud and boost their innovation.

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In episode 7 of Rocket to the Cloud 🚀☁️, Mario Mario had a chat with Eduardo Laureano, Group TPM Manager at Facebook.Eduardo shared his experiences at Microsoft and Facebook, the evolution of the cloud in the past twenty years, the challenges faced when dealing with infrastructure at Facebook’s level, and more.Rocket to the Cloud 🚀☁️ is presented by Booster, an open-source initiative by The Agile Monkeys. --- Follow Eduardo on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/eduardolaureano%E2%80%8B" rel="nofollow">@eduardolaureano​</a>Follow Mario on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/MarcAstr0" rel="nofollow">@MarcAstr0</a> --- <a href="https://www.theagilemonkeys.com" rel="nofollow">The Agile Monkeys website</a><a href="https://www.booster.cloud%E2%80%8B" rel="nofollow">Booster website</a><a href="https://github.com/boostercloud/booster" rel="nofollow">Booster&#39;s GitHub</a>Follow Booster on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/boostthecloud%E2%80%8B" rel="nofollow">@boostthecloud​</a>Join the <a href="https://discord.gg/bDY8MKx%E2%80%8B" rel="nofollow">Booster Discord</a>

In episode 7 of Rocket to the Cloud 🚀☁️, Mario had a chat with Eduardo Laureano, Group TPM Manager at Facebook.

Eduardo shared his experiences at Microsoft and Facebook, the evolution of the cloud in the past twenty years, the challenges faced when dealing with infrastructure at Facebook’s level, and more.

Rocket to the Cloud 🚀☁️ is presented by Booster, an open-source initiative by The Agile Monkeys.

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Follow Mario on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarcAstr0​

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Eduardo Laureano

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In episode 6 of Rocket to the Cloud 🚀☁️, Mario and Nick sat down to talk with Mark Harding, CTO of the alternative social network Minds.Mark described the technical challenges involved in running a decentralized, open-source social network. He also talked about how Minds uses crypto to reward its users and other things that set Minds apart from mainstream social networks.Rocket to the Cloud 🚀☁️ is presented by Booster, an open-source initiative by The Agile Monkeys. --- Follow Minds on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/minds" rel="nofollow">@minds</a>Follow Mario on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/MarcAstr0%E2%80%8B" rel="nofollow">@MarcAstr0​</a>Follow Nick on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/NickSeagull%E2%80%8B" rel="nofollow">@NickSeagull​</a> --- <a href="https://www.theagilemonkeys.com" rel="nofollow">The Agile Monkeys website</a><a href="https://www.booster.cloud%E2%80%8B" rel="nofollow">Booster website</a><a href="https://github.com/boostercloud/booster" rel="nofollow">Booster&#39;s GitHub</a>Follow Booster on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/boostthecloud" rel="nofollow">@boostthecloud</a>Join the <a href="https://discord.gg/bDY8MKx%E2%80%8B" rel="nofollow">Booster Discord</a>

In episode 6 of Rocket to the Cloud 🚀☁️, Mario and Nick sat down to talk with Mark Harding, CTO of the alternative social network Minds.

Mark described the technical challenges involved in running a decentralized, open-source social network. He also talked about how Minds uses crypto to reward its users, and other things that set Minds apart from mainstream social networks.

Rocket to the Cloud 🚀☁️ is presented by Booster, an open-source initiative by The Agile Monkeys.

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Follow Minds on Twitter: https://twitter.com/minds
Follow Mario on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarcAstr0​
Follow Nick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NickSeagull​

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The Agile Monkeys website: https://www.theagilemonkeys.com
Booster website: https://www.booster.cloud​
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Mark Harding

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In episode 5 of Rocket to the Cloud 🚀☁️, Mario sat down to talk with Felipe Hoffa, Data Cloud Advocate at Snowflake. Among other things, Felipe shared his views on all things related to Cloud and Data, how platforms like Snowflake contribute to improving the experience of software developers, data engineers, data scientists, and so on. Rocket to the Cloud 🚀☁️ is presented by Booster, an open-source initiative by The Agile Monkeys. --- Follow Felipe on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/felipehoffa" rel="nofollow">@felipehoffa</a>Follow Mario on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/MarcAstr0%E2%80%8B" rel="nofollow">@MarcAstr0​</a> --- <a href="https://www.theagilemonkeys.com" rel="nofollow">The Agile Monkeys website</a><a href="https://www.booster.cloud%E2%80%8B" rel="nofollow">Booster website</a><a href="https://github.com/boostercloud/booster" rel="nofollow">Booster&#39;s GitHub</a>Follow Booster on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/boostthecloud%E2%80%8B" rel="nofollow">@boostthecloud​</a>Join the <a href="https://discord.gg/bDY8MKx%E2%80%8B" rel="nofollow">Booster Discord</a>

Felipe Hoffa

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In episode 4 of Rocket to the Cloud 🚀☁️, Mario sat down to talk with Taylor Dolezal, Senior Developer Advocate at HashiCorp. Taylor spoke at length about what it was like being a Systems Engineer at Disney Studios, his role as Developer Advocate at HashiCorp, as well as his role as CNCF Ambassador and Kubernetes Release Lead, and more. Rocket to the Cloud 🚀☁️ is presented by Booster, an open-source initiative by The Agile Monkeys. --- Follow Taylor on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/onlydole%E2%80%8B" rel="nofollow">@onlydole​</a>Follow Mario on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/MarcAstr0" rel="nofollow">@MarcAstr0​</a> ---<a href="https://www.theagilemonkeys.com" rel="nofollow">The Agile Monkeys website</a><a href="https://www.booster.cloud%E2%80%8B" rel="nofollow">Booster website</a>Follow Booster on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/boostthecloud" rel="nofollow">@boostthecloud​</a>Join the <a href="https://discord.gg/bDY8MKx%E2%80%8B" rel="nofollow">Booster Discord</a>

Taylor Dolezal

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In episode 3 of Rocket to the Cloud 🚀☁️, presented by Booster, Mario sat down to talk with Kelsey Hightower, Principal Developer Advocate at Google. Kelsey shared his views on Kubernetes, the Cloud, and DevOps ecosystems, open-source projects, as well as thoughts on leadership, mentoring, and team building. --- Follow Kelsey on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower%E2%80%8B" rel="nofollow">@kelseyhightower​</a>Follow Mario on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/MarcAstr0%E2%80%8B" rel="nofollow">@MarcAstr0​</a> --- <a href="https://www.booster.cloud%E2%80%8B" rel="nofollow">Booster website</a>Follow Booster on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/boostthecloud%E2%80%8B" rel="nofollow">@boostthecloud​</a>Join the <a href="https://discord.gg/bDY8MKx%E2%80%8B" rel="nofollow">Booster Discord</a>

Principal Developer Advocate at Google Cloud

In episode 3 of Rocket to the Cloud 🚀☁️, presented by Booster, Mario sat down to talk with Kelsey Hightower, Principal Developer Advocate at Google.

Kelsey shared his views on Kubernetes, the Cloud, and DevOps ecosystems, open-source projects, as well as thoughts on leadership, mentoring, and team building.

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Follow Kelsey on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower​
Follow Mario on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarcAstr0​

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Kelsey Hightower

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In episode 2 of Rocket to the Cloud 🚀☁️, presented by Booster, Nick and Mario sat down to talk with Leo Gorodinski, Co-founder and CTO of ALVYS. Leo shared his thoughts on Domain-Driven Design, Event Sourcing, Functional Programming, how he was able to apply them during his tenure as VP of Engineering at Jet.com, and the kind of engineering culture he wants to instill at ALVYS. --- Follow Leo on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/eulerfx" rel="nofollow">@eulerfx</a>Follow Nick on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/NickSeagull" rel="nofollow">@NickSeagull</a>Follow Mario on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/MarcAstr0" rel="nofollow">@MarcAstr0</a> <a href="https://alvys.io" rel="nofollow">ALVYS website</a> --- <a href="https://www.booster.cloud" rel="nofollow">Booster website</a>Follow Booster on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/boostthecloud" rel="nofollow">@boostthecloud</a>Join the <a href="https://discord.gg/bDY8MKx" rel="nofollow">Booster Discord</a>

Co-founder and CTO of ALVYS

In episode 2 of Rocket to the Cloud 🚀☁️, presented by Booster, Nick and Mario sat down to talk with Leo Gorodinski, Co-founder and CTO of ALVYS.

Leo shared his thoughts on Domain-Driven Design, Event Sourcing, Functional Programming, how he was able to apply them during his tenure as VP of Engineering at Jet.com, and the kind of engineering culture he wants to instill at ALVYS.

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Follow Leo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/eulerfx
Follow Nick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NickSeagull
Follow Mario on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarcAstr0

ALVYS website: https://alvys.io

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Leo Gorodinski

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In the premiere episode of Rocket to the Cloud 🚀☁️, presented by Booster, Nick and Mario sat down to talk with Hampton Lintorn-Catlin, Co-founder and CEO of Veue. Hampton shared his experience in the invention of SASS and HAML, his time at the Wikimedia Foundation, Moovweb, and Rent the Runway, and what he&#39;s currently up to with Veue. --- Follow Hampton on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/HamptonMakes" rel="nofollow">@HamptonMakes</a>Follow Veue on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/veuelive" rel="nofollow">@veuelive</a>Follow Nick on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/NickSeagull" rel="nofollow">@NickSeagull</a>Follow Mario on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/MarcAstr0" rel="nofollow">@MarcAstr0</a> <a href="https://www.veuelive.com" rel="nofollow">Veue website</a> --- <a href="https://www.booster.cloud" rel="nofollow">Booster website</a>Follow Booster on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/boostthecloud" rel="nofollow">@boostthecloud</a>Join the <a href="https://discord.gg/bDY8MKx" rel="nofollow">Booster Discord</a>

Co-founder and CEO of Veue, creator of SASS and HAML

In the premiere episode of Rocket to the Cloud 🚀☁️, presented by Booster, Nick and Mario sat down to talk with Hampton Lintorn-Catlin, Co-founder and CEO of Veue.

Hampton shared his experience in the invention of SASS and HAML, his time at the Wikimedia Foundation, Moovweb, and Rent the Runway, and what he's currently up to with Veue.

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Follow Hampton on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HamptonMakes
Follow Veue on Twitter: https://twitter.com/veuelive
Follow Nick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NickSeagull
Follow Mario on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarcAstr0

Veue website: https://www.veuelive.com

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Hampton Lintorn-Catlin

Embrace the cloud and boost your innovation

Rocket to the Cloud is a new interview series, presented by the Booster platform, an open-source initiative by The Agile Monkeys, where hosts Nick and Mario interview leaders and decision-makers in software development from many different organizations.

Our guests share their experiences and what went into their decision-making process when innovating and dealing with complex business and technology problems, focusing on modern web technologies and cloud architectures.

This interview series aims to inspire senior software engineers to embrace the cloud and boost their innovation.