About PetePete is currently the Head of Growth And Community for AppMap, the open source dynamic runtime code analyzer. Pete also works with early stage startups, helping them navigate the complex world of early stage new product development.Pete also fully acknowledges his profile pic is slightly out of date, but has been too lazy to update it to reflect current hair growth trends.Links:AppMap: https://appmap.io/
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: If you asked me to rank which cloud provider has the best developer experience, I'd be hard-pressed to choose a platform that isn't Google Cloud. Their developer experience is unparalleled and, in the early stages of building something great, that translates directly into velocity. Try it yourself with the Google for Startups Cloud Program over at cloud.google.com/startup. It'll give you up to $100k a year for each of the first two years in Google Cloud credits for companies that range from bootstrapped all the way on up to Series A. Go build something, and then tell me about it. My thanks to Google Cloud for sponsoring this ridiculous podcast.Corey: Cloud native just means you’ve got more components or microservices than anyone (even a mythical 10x engineer) can keep track of. With OpsLevel, you can build a catalog in minutes and forget needing that mythical 10x engineer. Now, you’ll have a 10x service catalog to accompany your 10x service count. Visit OpsLevel.com to learn how easy it is to build and manage your service catalog. Connect to your git provider and you’re off to the races with service import, repo ownership, tech docs, and more. Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I’m Corey Quinn and this is probably my favorite recurring episode slash tradition, every year. I drag Pete Cheslock on who talks with me about his experience at re:Invent. Last year, Pete, you didn’t go. The year before, none of us went because it was all virtual, but it feels like we’re finally getting back into the swing of things. How are you, Pete?Pete: I am doing great. It is always a pleasure. It was amazing to see other humans in person at a industry event. As weird as it sounds to say that, you know, it was great to be in Vegas [laugh], it was mostly great, just because there were other humans there too that I wanted to see.Corey: Because this is going to confuse folks who haven’t been following our various adventures, these days, you are the Head of Growth and Community at AppMap. But you and I have been talking for years and you did a stint working at The Duckbill Group here with us as a cloud economist. Ah, I miss those days. It was fun working with you and being able to bother you every day as opposed to just on special occasions like this.Pete: Yeah, I know. I got to slide into your Slack DMs in addition, and then when I didn’t get a response, I would slide into your Twitter DMs. It worked out perfectly. So yeah, it’s been a wild ride. I mean, I took an interlude from my startup journey by continually working at tech startups.And yeah, I got to join onboard the Duckbill and have, you know, a really wonderful time cutting bills and diving into all of the amazing parts of people’s Amazon usage. But I am also equally broken in my brain, and continually said to myself, “Maybe I’ll do another startup.” [laugh].Corey: Right. And it turns out that we’re not a startup. Everyone likes to think we are. It’s like, oh, okay—like Amazon, for example, has us historically in their startup division as far as how they—the buckets as they put different accounts into. And if you look at us through that lens, it’s yeah, we’re a specific kind of startups,