Episode 189, Marino Wijay (repeat) Developer Advocate at Solo

Fireside with Voxgig

We'll be back next week with brand new episodes, but for today, we hope you enjoy this episode from last year, where we spoke to Marino Wijay: Here at the Voxgig podcast we’ve decided that we’re sick of talking about DevRel all the time. So we’ve decided to switch it up with something completely different for this episode - DevOps! Marino Wijay joins Richard to talk about operator relations, and his work for solo.io as a developer advocate. Solo helps companies unite their services into functional applications using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies. So what’s Marino’s role? To make sure developers only have one thing to worry about: developing! All the explaining and talking to people, well that’s his job - it’s why he’s on the podcast. As Richard has lamented before, Marino and Solo’s services would have been invaluable to him back in the days of combing through Kubernetes by hand. But what about their DevRel? Richard has known DevRel to be introduced to companies via CEOs or even investors, but it was Marino who was the major force in introducing DevRel to Solo. He now has two other team members working with him. He speaks about his journey of convincing colleagues to give this whole “developer relations” thing a try. He was the patient zero who “infected” Solo with DevRel and now it has successfully spread throughout the entire company. He explains why he believes Kubernetes won out over Docker. Apparently a lack of observability (which stunts improvements) can be a real nail in the coffin. Docker used DevOps to garner early adoption, but wasn’t able to keep up with the demand of its customer base, allowing someone else to sweep in and offer what they couldn’t. Along that line, he and Richard explore the recent announcement from Terraform, regarding their decision to pare back their open source offerings. Is this another death knell, or a savvy decision that will give them a competitive edge? Tune in to hear Marino’s thoughts! Solo https://www.solo.io/ Reach out to Marino here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mwijay/ Find out more and listen to previous podcasts here: https://www.voxgig.com/podcast Subscribe to our newsletter for weekly updates and information about upcoming meetups: https://voxgig.substack.com/ Join the Dublin DevRel Meetup group here: www.devrelmeetup.com