About AlyssAlyss Noland is the head of Developer Relations Relations and Product Marketing at Common Room, an intelligent community-led growth platform. She previously led product marketing for Developer Experience at GitHub where she focused on open source community investment and helping engineering teams find success through development metrics and developer-focused research. She’s been working in tech since 2012 in various roles from Sales Engineering and Developer Advocacy to Product Marketing with companies such as GitHub, Box, Atlassian, and BigCommerce, as well as being an advisor at Heavybit. Links Referenced:
Common Room: https://www.commonroom.io/

Heavybit: https://www.heavybit.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/PreciselyAlyss

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/PreciselyAlyss

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: Tailscale SSH is a new, and arguably better way to SSH. Once you’ve enabled Tailscale SSH on your server and user devices, Tailscale takes care of the rest. So you don’t need to manage, rotate, or distribute new SSH keys every time someone on your team leaves. Pretty cool, right? Tailscale gives each device in your network a node key to connect to your VPN, and uses that same key for SSH authorization and encryption. So basically you’re SSHing the same way that you’re managing your network.So what’s the benefit? You’ll get built-in key rotation, the ability to manage permissions as code, connectivity between two devices, and reduced latency. You can even ask users to re-authenticate SSH connections for that extra bit of security. Try Tailscale now - it's free forever for personal use forever.Corey: This episode is sponsored by our friends at Logicworks. Getting to the cloud is challenging enough for many places, especially maintaining security, resiliency, cost control, agility, etc, etc, etc. Things break, configurations drift, technology advances, and organizations, frankly, need to evolve. How can you get to the cloud faster and ensure you have the right team in place to maintain success over time? Day 2 matters. Work with a partner who gets it - Logicworks combines the cloud expertise and platform automation to customize solutions to meet your unique requirements. Get started by chatting with a cloud specialist today at snark.cloud/logicworks. That’s snark.cloud/logicworksCorey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I’m Corey Quinn. I often wonder how to start these conversations, but sometimes it’s just handed to me and I don’t even have to do a whole lot of work. My guest today is Alyss Noland, who’s the Head of Developer Relations Relations and Product Marketing at Common Room. Alyss, thank you for joining me.Alyss: Thanks for having me, Corey. I’m really excited to be here.Corey: So, developer relations relations. It feels like an abstraction that has been forced to be built on top of another abstraction that has gotten too complicated, so as best I can tell, you are walking around as a human equivalent of Kubernetes.Alyss: Oh, gosh, I would really hope not to be a human equivalent of Kubernetes. I think that would make me an octopus. But—Corey: Yeah, “What did you say about me?” Yeah.Alyss: [laugh].Corey: “I didn't come here to be insulted, Quinn.” Yeah.Alyss: No, like listen, I love octopodes. Which [tattoo 00:01:24] is which? So, developer relations relations. Yes, it’s an abstraction on an abstraction. A really critical level, it is how do I relate? Can I relate to people that are in the developer relations profession at large?We are at the point at which this is a somewhat poorly-defined area that is continuing to grow. And there’s a lot of debates