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From YouTube: Meet the Keptn Crew - Anna Reale

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Rob Jahn interviewed Anna Reale, Software Engineer in the Keptn team at Dynatrace, who shared what she's currently working on, some facts about her life, and how she started in software development.

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A

Thank you. Everyone for joining another captain meet the crew, so I'm very excited. I have anna riyale, who is a a new member of the captain team the last couple months, but we really want to introduce uh who's working on the captain project, how they got started just so. You get to know each other and hopefully inspire you to get involved yourself, so anna very nice to meet you.

B

Nice to meet you too uh yeah. I am here since uh six months, only or already we can say I'm part of the captain corps, so I'm working on the back end, I'm quite happy to have done this change. In my life, I was before a phd student and a teacher in the university in budapest in hungary, and I really liked to travel a lot I'm coming from italy.

B

I traveled a lot to europe and whatnot, and now I landed here in philak, which is a beautiful mountain village in the carinthia in austria, and I had a chance to join the captain corps and to start working with them. Pretty nice experience.

A

Yeah, that's great so so yeah, definitely a world traveler and and traveled around so yeah. So your hometown, that's where, where in italy is that.

B

Oh, it's um very far southeast. It's called thermally. It's this little fisherman village uh with a tiny little norman castle in there. It's a pretty cute place so.

A

That's perfect right, so you know we got captain, you got fishing, that's it's perfect! Yeah yeah yeah! So it's just destiny. So well I guess. Maybe how did you find captain I mean? Was it just the fish? In the analogy? I'm sure there was another reason but yeah tell us about how you got started with with captain, and I I guess you worked for dynatrace as well. Is that that right.

B

Yeah, it was quite a coincidence. I was uh finishing my phd and in that I was looking forward to find a company where to have a period of introduction, so that was part of my phd program and I contacted dynatrace with that in mind. Like hey, I have this and this competence. Do you have something and they were like hey. Why don't you join our open source project and I was like oh that sounds awesome. That's.

A

B

To tell the truth, I was quite nervous, I wouldn't be able, because it looked quite a big project with lots of technology involved and many things I didn't know.

B

But uh one day I started with one pr and uh the next thing I was doing. I was changing the.

A

B

Base so touching everything.

A

Yeah, well, that's! Well, that's yeah! That's I mean I think, that's how people get started right. I mean you just you learn about it and you try it. Maybe you test it. Maybe you install it, but I know you're you're an advanced uh I.t professional, so I mean so when you say the back end. What like what what what you know? What are you working on now and what's uh what are you guys, planning.

B

For the one of the things I'm most proud of, that we are working right now is concerning what we call zero downtime. So we are reworking the whole captain in a way that whenever we are doing an update or an upgrade, uh the user, the final user doesn't perceive that. So this means, in the background, that we are rethinking all the way that we are doing communication and all the way that we are handling how services interact so that they can be as independent as possible and they can go off and on yeah.

A

B

A

So what kind of you know languages, and- and things like that, would if you, if someone wanted to work in that area, like what sort of skill set and kind of things, would they need to have as a base knowledge to do something like that.

B

So in general, having an idea about concurrency really helps so if you test it in any language like in java or anything else, you have tested this. Of course, we use an everyday basis. Container technologies, so playing with docker for sure is something which is highly appreciated.

B

We use kubernetes, which is an orchestration for containers. uh That is a bit of a more advanced topic. uh Indeed, this is something you don't find much at school, but I would strongly suggest if you want to find many opportunities in our fields nowadays. This can be a very highly requested skill.

A

B

Yeah um personally, we are now coding in go golang. However, um the front-end part is being done in javascript and there are many other possibility to to join with other knowledges. So right, uh well,.

A

That's the nice thing about containers right. So what you can encapsulate the service language independent, but you're right, I I agree like those technologies go um is, is very popular. You know, kubernetes, there's lots of it's an advanced topic, but you know it does start with a container. So it's definitely you can start with containers, learn how that works um and then kind of work with some of the open source projects uh even around that too. Well, that's great on it. So I think we're we're going to just maybe leave a parting thought with.

A

um I think you've, given some some tips for technologies- and you know it's great to meet. You um excited you're part of the team and so any other any other advice or tips for anyone that wants to get involved in captain. You know just probably.

B

Not to get scared, we do have a label which is called good first issue, just uh filter on our github for those and have a look at those just start and uh don't be afraid to ask, because we every day are happy to answer and to co-participate in solving even the tiniest issues. So I think yeah start all.

A

Right, that's the best. That's that's great advice all right. Well, thank you glad we got to meet you today and um for anyone else who wants to be introduced uh just reach out to us and we'll uh we'll be happy to share your experience with everyone. So thank you, anna and thank you. Take it easy.