The Zookeeper of jujutsu

Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

Tim Banks joins Justin and Autumn — there’s nothing quite like being punched in the face by Zookeeper or being taken down by a “hot” shard.

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Featuring:

• Tim Banks – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Interview

• Tim Banks X
• Tim Banks website

Links of the week

• RSA hack
• Google wont acquire Wiz

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapter

1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. The opener (00:00:51)

3. Sponsor: Coder.com (00:03:36)

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4. Tim's resumé (00:07:17)

5. Technical & people skills (00:11:08)

6. Showing your value (00:15:55)

7. No 10x engineers (00:19:04)

8. Tim's favorite job (00:20:05)

9. Tinder story (00:22:10)

10. Worst outage (00:27:52)

11. Coolest job (00:32:30)

12. Cloud has made us reckless (00:35:06)

13. Multi-cloud experience (00:38:59)

14. Modularity is key (00:45:59)

15. Jiu-jitsu techniques (00:46:50)

16. ZooKeeper of jiu-jitsu (00:49:59)

17. Tim's socials (00:52:36)

18. The closer (00:53:52)

19. Outro (01:06:02)