About LaurieLaurie is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix. You can also find her creating content and educating the technology industry as an egghead instructor, member of the TC39 Educators committee, and technical blogger.Links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurieontech

Netflix: https://www.netflix.com

Egghead: https://egghead.io


The Art of the Subtle Subtweet: https://laurieontech.com/book-launch/

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: You could build you go ahead and build your own coding and mapping notification system, but it takes time, and it sucks! Alternately, consider Courier, who is sponsoring this episode. They make it easy. You can call a single send API for all of your notifications and channels. You can control the complexity around routing, retries, and deliverability and simplify your notification sequences with automation rules. Visit courier.com today and get started for free. If you wind up talking to them, tell them I sent you and watch them wince—because everyone does when you bring up my name. Thats the glorious part of being me. Once again, you could build your own notification system but why on god’s flat earth would you do that?Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at VMware. Let’s be honest—the past year has been far from easy. Due to, well, everything. It caused us to rush cloud migrations and digital transformation, which of course means long hours refactoring your apps, surprises on your cloud bill, misconfigurations and headache for everyone trying manage disparate and fractured cloud environments. VMware has an answer for this. With VMware multi-cloud solutions, organizations have the choice, speed, and control to migrate and optimizeapplications seamlessly without recoding, take the fastest path to modern infrastructure, and operate consistently across the data center, the edge, and any cloud. I urge to take a look at vmware.com/go/multicloud. You know my opinions on multi cloud by now, but there's a lot of stuff in here that works on any cloud. But don’t take it from me thats: VMware.com/go/multicloud and my thanks to them again for sponsoring my ridiculous nonsense.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I’m Corey Quinn. I’m joined this week by Laurie Barth, but no one really knows that’s her last name. In fact, @laurieontech is how most people think of her. She’s a senior software engineer at a company called Netflix, which primarily streams movies and gives conference talks—in the before times—about how you’re doing it wrong.She also creates a lot of content and educates the technology industry as an instructor at Egghead. She’s a member of the TC39 Educator’s Committee, and of course, is a technical blogger. Laurie, thank you for suffering the slings and arrows I’m no doubt going to be hurtling your way.Laurie: This is the most fun I’ve had all week. [laugh].Corey: Well, it’s a pandemic on, so presumably that isn’t that high of a bar for the pony to stumble over.Laurie: Yeah, unfortunately not. I think that’s maybe the problem.Corey: So, you’re someone that I have been aware of for an awfully long time. You’re always sort of omnipresent in conversations. You are someone who has a lot of great opinions that present well; you talk about an awful lot of things that are germane to my interests, educating the next generation of engineers, for example. And of course, you recently started at Netflix, at which point, well, if you’re not familiar with what Netflix is doing in the cloud, have you ever even talked to an AWS employee for more than 35 seconds because they’ll go reference Netflix for a variety of wonderful rea