About EmilyEmily is an Android engineer by day, but makes tech jokes and satires videos by night. She lives in San Francisco with two ridiculously fluffy dogs.Links:
Uber: https://eng.uber.com/

Blog: https://www.emilykager.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/EmilyKager

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@shmemmmy

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: Couchbase Capella Database-as-a-Service is flexible, full-featured and fully managed with built in access via key-value, SQL, and full-text search. Flexible JSON documents aligned to your applications and workloads. Build faster with blazing fast in-memory performance and automated replication and scaling while reducing cost. Capella has the best price performance of any fully managed document database. Visit couchbase.com/screaminginthecloud to try Capella today for free and be up and running in three minutes with no credit card required. Couchbase Capella: make your data sing.Corey: This episode is sponsored by our friends at Oracle HeatWave is a new high-performance query accelerator for the Oracle MySQL Database Service, although I insist on calling it “my squirrel.” While MySQL has long been the worlds most popular open source database, shifting from transacting to analytics required way too much overhead and, ya know, work. With HeatWave you can run your OLAP and OLTP—don’t ask me to pronounce those acronyms again—workloads directly from your MySQL database and eliminate the time-consuming data movement and integration work, while also performing 1100X faster than Amazon Aurora and 2.5X faster than Amazon Redshift, at a third of the cost. My thanks again to Oracle Cloud for sponsoring this ridiculous nonsense.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I’m Corey Quinn. Today’s episode is a little bit off of the beaten path because, you know, normally we talk to folks doing things in the world of cloud. What is cloud, you ask? Great question. Whatever someone’s trying to sell you that day happens to be cloud.But it usually looks like SaaS products, Platform as a Service products, Infrastructure as a Service products, with ridiculous names because no one ever really thought what that might look like to pronounce out loud. But today, we’re going in a completely different direction. My guest is Emily Kager, a senior Android engineer at a small scrappy startup called Uber. Emily, thank you for joining me.Emily: Thanks for having me.Corey: So, I’m going to outright come out and say it I know remarkably little about, I don’t even want to say the mobile ecosystem in general, but even Android specifically because I fell down the iPhone hole a long time ago, and platform lock-in is a very real thing. Whenever you start talking about technical things, that generally tends to sail completely past me. You’re talking about things like Promises and whatnot. And it’s like, oh, that sounds suspiciously close to JavaScript, a language that I cannot make sense of to save my life. And it’s clear you know an awful lot about what you’re doing. It’s also clear, I don’t know, a whole heck of a lot about that side of the universe.Emily: Well, that’s good because I don’t know much about the cloud.Corey: Exactly. Which sounds like well, we don’t have a whole lot of points of commonality to have a show on, except for this small little thing, where recently, I decided in an attempt to recapture my lost youth and instead wound up feeling older than I ever have before, I joined the TikToks and started making small videos that I would consider humorous, but almost no one else will. And okay, great. I give it a hearty, sensible chuckle and move on, and then I s