weirdtrickmafia.fm Jessie Frazelle and Andrew Clay Shafer

A technology journey spanning engineering, product strategy, opensource, marketing, and business development, Mark Collier shares lessons learned along the way. Getting everyone aligned on the outcome remains an unsolved problem. As always, Andrew needs a computer that actually works.

Reflecting on 20 years of system administration, Miss Amy, self identifies as an SRE/DBRE. She brings her perspectives, valuing resilience engineering and organizational dynamics over machines and tools, to the weird trick mafia audience.

Henry Zhu joins the mafia. Open Source, Funding, Burnout, Fun and Games until someone gets hurt

Jess and Andrew get with Abby Fuller (@abbyfuller), Container Czarina extraordinaire, to share stories about startups, cold emails, hacking salesforce and getting in the middle of the cloud container game.

Sarah Drasner, Renaissance woman extraordinaire, shares stories, insight and advice with the Weird Trick Mafia. Tech, feelings, purpose, pandas.

Jess goes on safari in San Francisco and a wild Lachlan Evenson appears. Jess, Andrew and Lachlan discuss the journey from building the internet in the Australian Outback to Cloud Native and wrap up weighing Net Neutrality.