About JesseJesse is a seasoned operations engineer with a deep passion for understanding complex technical and organizational systems. He's spent his career helping Engineering teams achieve their business goals by improving how they interact with their technical systems, and with each other. He's currently a Cloud Economist with Duckbill Group, guiding organizations along their journey of cloud cost optimization and management.Links:
The Duckbill Group: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/

Jesse’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/jesse_derose

AWS Morning Brief: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-morning-brief/

TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: Your company might be stuck in the middle of a DevOps revolution without even realizing it. Lucky you! Does your company culture discourage risk? Are you willing to admit it? Does your team have clear responsibilities? Depends on who you ask. Are you struggling to get buy in on DevOps practices? Well, download the 2021 State of DevOps report brought to you annually by Puppet since 2011 to explore the trends and blockers keeping evolution firms stuck in the middle of their DevOps evolution. Because they fail to evolve or die like dinosaurs. The significance of organizational buy in, and oh it is significant indeed, and why team identities and interaction models matter. Not to mention weither the use of automation and the cloud translate to DevOps success. All that and more awaits you. Visit: www.puppet.com to download your copy of the report now!Corey: Up next we’ve got the latest hits from Veem. Its climbing charts everywhere and soon its going to climb right into your heart. Here it is!Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I’m Corey Quinn. I’m joined this week by Jesse DeRose, my colleague, and cloud economist at The Duckbill Group. Jesse, thank you for joining me, even though when I asked you, it isn’t exactly like you felt you had much of a choice.Jesse: [laugh]. I appreciate being on this podcast with you. I think you’ve had an opportunity to talk to a few other folks from our organization so far, so I’m just happy to be included. I’m hoping that I get the Members Only jacket after this recording.Corey: Oh, absolutely. The swag that goes out to guests is secret and wonderful, all at the same time. So, let’s start at the very beginning. It turns out that despite the prevalent narrative that we put out there, are clouds’ economist did not just spring fully-formed from the forehead of some God, and appear—fully-formed—ready to slice AWS bills to ribbons. There’s a process and there’s always an origin story. Where do you come from? Where were you before this?Jesse: So, my background is mixed. I started with a management of information systems degree, which is inherently interdisciplinary. You’re linking, sort of, the importance of both technical systems and business goals and outcomes into a single degree. And when I graduated with this degree, I went out into the working world and said, “Okay, I’m here. I’m ready. Here’s my degree. Here’s what I’m interested in. Let’s do this.”And nobody knew what to do with me, Corey. Nobody knew what management of information systems was. They simultaneously said, “You know, you don’t have a computer science or a computer engineering degree, so we don’t believe that you’ve got programmer chops.” Especially since this is the golden age of boot camps and quickstart programming books, and this movement that anybody can be a developer, which makes it even stranger that I’m not spending my weekends learning every programming language under the sun and automating the little tasks.Corey: Oh, absolut