Screaming in the Cloud - Great Managers Are Elastic with Courtney Wilburn
Episode Date: November 3, 2020About Courtney WilburnCourtney's journey began in her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, by hardware hacking on personal computers and lurking on Prince message boards. She loves finding unusual... and efficient ways to solve problems (both human and technical alike), building tools, developing workflows, and building infrastructure almost as much as she enjoys finding ways to keep activists safe organizing online. When she’s away from her desk, she can be found running, hiking, or biking around Philadelphia, cooking, brewing beer, knitting, building keyboards, or singing karaoke duets with her wife.Links ReferencedElasticTwitterConnect with Courtney on LinkedInCourtney's personal site
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Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud, with your host, cloud economist 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.
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They went open source.
They made it so you can monitor your whole stack in one place.
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Nops will help you reduce AWS costs 15 to 50% if you do what it tells you.
But some people do.
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That is six figures in 30 days.
Rather than a thing you might do, this is something that they actually did.
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nops.io slash snark. That's nops.io. So you're a relatively recent hire at Elastic for Cloud SRE Tooling. And I swear to you, when I first saw that title, I misread it as Cloud SRE Trolling, at which point it's, ooh, what I'm doing actually has turned into a valid career path. No, that's not what it says. And no, there is not an entire industry of people making fun of things that I'm aware of yet. Yeah, no, there certainly isn't, but that's not to say that there won't be in the future. I
mean, I feel like there's certainly an avenue for trolling for sure. I certainly, in my first few
weeks, the amount of questions I had, I certainly felt like I was trolling. I hear you. So we'll get
to what you're currently doing in a bit, but first, what I find fascinating is that you work at one of
my favorite places in the world for a couple of years before you wound up going to Elastic, and that is The Wirecutter, a New York Times company.
Yes.
Because I don't know about you, but every time I want to buy something and I don't necessarily
want to, I don't know, buy 20 different spatulas and do a bake-off for six weeks,
I go ahead to The Wirecutter and I pull up, what is the thing you recommend? Great, I'll go ahead and buy that. It's been my default thing to go to that has replaced consumer reports
for this generation. Oh, yeah. No, I mean, I totally cut out the fat for a lot of the things
that I was purchasing. When I first started there, I was like, oh, great, I can use this.
And it feels like I'm supporting my own workplace. It was great. I went there again
yesterday, just looking for a new foam roller because I've been working out a lot lately.
It's one of those pandemic sort of shifts and trying to change your headspace because you're
in the house a lot more. And I looked for a foam roller and I was like, I know exactly where to go.
I don't have to go anywhere else. Yeah, the problem I found is that,
especially for things like home decor,
whenever the wire cutter recommends something,
there's an entire swath of folks,
at least in the circles that I hang out with,
that will go directly to the wire cutter
and buy the thing that they recommend.
So there's now a disturbing, almost monoculture
of everyone I know has the same standing desk.
They have the same monitor arm.
They have the same chair that is always way too expensive.
But if it's between you and the ground, spend the money.
Life tip there.
And everyone has more or less the same equipment.
And that's great for equipment.
But then it's, oh, everyone has the same couch.
Everyone has the same wall hanging.
Okay, this is getting a little weird.
Right, right. I mean, I think the
point is to like pepper your life with some of these things and replace them. But, you know,
more power to the people who walk into an empty home and just fill it with wire cutter recommendations.
I certainly would if I could, but the office chair pick, that was certainly a lifesaver, especially working from
home. So you went from a company that effectively is a household name, at least in the world that
I live in, and then you've gone to Elastic, which love them or hate them. I don't think I know too
many companies that aren't using Elasticsearch for something. That's true. That's true. I kind of like the fact that Elastic has that level of ubiquity in sites.
I mean, even the Wirecutter uses Elasticsearch.
So it's knowing that, especially as the amount of things that people are looking for online
continues to increase, it doesn't seem like there's going to be any end to the use of Elasticsearch and people's applications of it.
So, you know, it's been an interesting ride,
especially as I continue to learn the depths of the domain.
I think being on the other side of being a consumer of Elasticsearch
while working at the Wirecutter, you know, you interface with it,
you don't really understand or you don't get a sense of the power of the product.
And now, wow, as I continue to dig in and learn more, definitely impressed.
One of the things that I think is so impressive is that everyone in the world is either chasing Elastic or building their own Elastic offering or competing with Elastic or using Elastic.
Some people love the company. Some people love the company. Some
people hate the company. Some people, oh, I love the product. I use it constantly. Oh, I hate the
product, but I'm going to have full API compatibility with it and so on and so forth. And it's really
sort of become the default slash only answer for arbitrary searching of data. I was sort of in
denial about that for a long time
until then I started seeing Elasticsearch showing up
in what's running in our AWS environment
here at the consultancy.
And yep, okay, if we're using it ourselves,
then there's really no argument anymore.
It is incredibly pervasive
because we make terrible technology selections
and try and go off the beaten path wherever possible
because I'm really bad at this.
And all roads do in fact lead Elastic, because it makes sense. Great. You're going to
use DNS as a database. Great move there. But what are you going to search through the logs with?
Oh, there we go. Elastic it is. Yep. Oh, yeah. No, absolutely. Absolutely. And the applications
for what they're doing are endless. And it's good to be a part of this. It's really specifically working in the cloud division, being a part of the cutting edge of
the cutting edge. This is something that is a technology that is ubiquitous, but we're still
finding novel ways to make it work for a variety of different use cases. It's been pretty awesome. I can't say more about how much I have enjoyed my time there so far.
Yeah, before we go too far into this, I also want to thank you.
At the time we're recording this, I'm about to step out for parental leave,
and you are a guest author for the newsletter, One of the Weeks That I'm Out.
First, thank you.
I really appreciate being able to take time off.
No problem. Really, thank you. I really appreciate being able to take time off. No problem.
Really, congratulations on your upcoming leave.
I'm sure your employees are going to be happy about that.
Oh, getting rid of me?
Oh, yeah.
They've been trying to plan how to get rid of me for years.
The ringleader of that is, of course, Mike,
my business partner, who just absolutely,
he wants to absolutely seize power
and write the newsletter himself, I'm sure.
I'm kidding.
He's written his own before,
and it was not directly aligned with what he loved doing. I'm weird like that. But
in seriousness, there's a lot of really talented people that I get to work with, but this is the
first time I've ever stepped away for more than a week or so during the off season of, all right,
it's between Christmas and New Year's. No one is going to be doing any
announcements here. Why run a newsletter issue at all? I think I've taken three weeks off until
this point over the last four years. Oh my God. So this is a new experience. I am taking multiple
weeks in a row off. I'm turning off my access at the end of the week. And I will read the newsletter
when it comes out and it hits my email between waking up for feeding.
So, you know, when I wake up at two in the afternoon.
You're just being a consumer of it just like everybody else, right?
Exactly.
And we'll see what happens.
And I'll look at this and, okay, great.
Well, again, the trick is, as I'm envisioning it now, it seemed impossible when I was first considering this idea.
Because no one is going to be able to write sarcastically and snarky the way that I do, but they don't have to.
Other people's material fits about as well
as other people's shoes.
I don't need to play those games.
People can tell the stories what they find interesting.
And it's all subjective.
I get angry emails sometimes from Amazon folks,
why didn't you talk about my release?
Well, the answer is, when I saw it,
it didn't really seem that interesting to me. What did I miss? No one is going to ever agree with everything you say. So I smile, I nod,
and I made my peace with that. Yeah. I mean, I think I've definitely had to make my peace with
people not agreeing with what I say. Just generally, I feel like in order to blaze your own
trail in this industry, especially as a Black woman, you kind of have to be used to not being a part of the in-crowd, sort of being a bit of an iconoclast.
You can sit back and get a 10,000-foot view.
I doubt my issue will be as snarky as the ones that I've read of yours in the past, but I hope that people will enjoy it nonetheless. Well, that's a piece I always wondered, where I've given talks at conferences before on how
to handle job interviews or salary negotiation or how to be sarcastic and funny. And the problem
with those talks and the reason I don't give them any more independently without someone else on
stage with me to share their experiences,
is it's extremely unclear for me how much of what has worked for me has the unwritten prerequisite
of be a loudmouth white guy in tech. I mean, my failure mode is apparently a board seat in a book
deal somewhere. When I say I don't understand how this works, the answer is, oh, the marketing is
not great and they should shore up the documentation. Where no one ever questions, should I be here or not? That's an
incredible baked-in level of presumed competence that, frankly, I certainly don't deserve,
but also that is not afforded to everyone. Oh, absolutely. It's most certainly not. I mean,
I think I've at least walked into,
you know, even before I was working in the industry, everywhere I was, there wasn't
necessarily something that was tailored for me. I started my career path generally not doing
tech stuff. So you get a better understanding growing up how much of the world is tailored to you and
how much isn't. And for me, a lot isn't. And so you just adjust. You make your own way.
You figure it out. It can be easier growing up and having your lived experience knowing the world is
not tailored for you. It can be easier in some ways, or at least for me, going into another job, an industry change, because you know that that's not necessarily going to be tailored to you either.
So you can say, okay, I know who the intended audience is for this.
How do I make them listen?
How do I make them see me for me, even though this isn't built for me.
Now, as of the time of this recording,
you spent a month or two as an engineering manager at Elastic.
Is there an existing culture of hiring Black people,
the abstract and Black women specifically, into leadership roles?
Is this a relatively recent change?
Is this something that has been baked into the culture for a long time that they're getting right? Is this something new? I would say it's a bit of both, right? I think
generally they've been able to, as a fully distributed company, been able to hire people
from around the world. That being said, I think because they're in the tech industry, the tech industry is overrepresented by white, straight dudes.
And for that reason, I was the first Black person hired into engineering leadership in the company's history.
So I didn't know that until I started there.
But I don't feel unwelcome. I wasn't made to feel like I was an artifact at a
museum or everyone's looking at me or, oh crap, I have to get this right or there'll never be
another Black person in engineering leadership again. I don't feel that way. I think they
certainly have talked the talk. I think when it comes to making sure that this is a warm, inclusive environment
for a wide variety of people, I think there is a good level of representation just in sort of
individual contributors. I think this is a step in the right direction in terms of them continuing
to walk the walk when it comes to making sure that the representation in leadership is as reflective
of the representation for
individual contributors there. There's an awful lot to admire about Elastic as a company. It's
easy to drag any company when they take a misstep or offend someone's perceived sense of right and
wrong. But from what you're saying, it sounds like they have an awful lot, even internally,
that recommends them as a place to work. Right, right. They're fully distributed. I think, you know, so many
people, I've really been welcomed with open arms by other Black folks that work at Elastic, and
it's been an amazing experience. Just so many people in so many different disciplines doing
things that I think, to me, being someone who does engineering work or continually had done
engineering work in the past, seeing Black people in marketing blows my mind. You know what I mean? Seeing Black people in sales,
that blows my mind. But people from all areas of the company just being in community with each
other, being encouraging to each other is really nice. And the fact that folks feel so welcoming
and really truly also believe in what they're doing at the same time and don't seem to
be disheartened or down. It's been great. You obviously were not brought in for optical
purposes. You have an incredibly strong engineering and engineering leadership background.
To that end, you are the engineering manager for cloud SRE tooling. What does that team do?
Where does it start?
Where does it stop?
The team that helps make tools for engineers at Elastic.
So for cloud engineers at Elastic.
So we're very much working on improving the suite of internally facing tools for Elastic engineers
to help them do their jobs better, specifically for SREs.
So we want to make sure that deployments run smoothly and that they're able to do that,
that people have tools at their disposal to make cloud products even better,
to ship better Elastic Cloud products.
So someone could argue on some level then that your team builds the tools that the cloud
providers should, but haven't.
Or is that too dark and cynical?
That's a little too dark and cynical, I guess.
I don't know.
I mean, I think the use cases of our products are so specific.
This is more of how do we launch the Elastic Cloud product
and what do people need to launch the Elastic Cloud product.
So it's more to help the people that do that, do that better.
We're not necessarily looking to each of those cloud providers
because we launch to multiple clouds.
We're not looking to them to provide those tools.
This is so that folks at Elastic can launch Elastic into those clouds.
So in previous jobs, were you working extensively with Elastic?
Or was that something that you had avoided and then have to come up to speed on the technology stack itself in your new role?
I was working with Elastic, but not very deeply.
It was more of like, at least for most of my career,
Elasticsearch was the magical component that just kind of worked.
And I think that's what makes it such a draw for so many other companies that use it, is that it just works.
You can launch it locally and it just kind of works.
So that was how I was using it in the past in my career.
If we were embedding Elasticsearch into other sites,
as long as you knew how to tune your indexes,
it just kind of worked.
It didn't make a difference.
If you couldn't leverage every single bit
of Elasticsearch that you wanted to,
and so now I'm in the position of really having to learn the nuts and bolts of the architecture
so that I can better serve the folks that I manage a bit better because I want to know what they're
facing on the day-to-day so I did have to get up to speed I wasn't like totally behind the eight
ball with this one but I think just generally having experience as an engineer certainly helps. I definitely had to get a little bit past the magic and into what's in the hat.
Yeah.
I think that everyone believes that, oh, you must be an expert on a company's product to
wind up working there.
Not at all.
When I started my own company, I vaguely knew some things about AWS, but I was certainly
not deeply steeped in it.
Have you been able to figure out who's
responsible for all of the drawings for the products in AWS, though? I have the distinct
impression that there's been what I've seen that it feels like it's done by a committee
in some respects because it is so flat and, I guess, devoid of personality. Sorry,
you're referring to the diagrams that they use or you're talking about their icons or stencils?
Their icons, the icons for the products.
Really indistinguishable.
If I was going solely off of icons
for some of the products,
I would have no idea what each of them meant.
I'm having one of my designers build out
an entire series of custom icons
for architectural diagrams
just because I'm so sick of the unimaginative things.
Without a label,
most of the ones that AWS provides are useless to me. I do not know what they are or what they look like.
And if you just need the label, then I could put any arbitrary image there that I want. So why not
have something that at least is slightly more evocative or failing that has a personality.
But again, this is the problem of big companies where they're trying to service
all customers. You can't really have a sense of humor about your offering as an enterprise scale
company because your customers most assuredly do not have a sense of humor about their own business.
So it's a difficult messaging line to walk. And I really do empathize with them. I'm very fortunate
in that I'm a small enough company that I can still pick and choose who I work with. So if folks don't find my sense of humor appealing, great. We're probably not
going to have a great engagement anyway. It's sort of, if having a snarky platypus as a mascot
is a deal breaker, I probably was not going to find success there anyway.
Right, right. I mean, so to a certain extent, like you're the product, right?
Your personality is your company's product. Does that make sense?
Yeah, on some level. I'm trying to break that out a little bit from the consulting versus the media stuff that I do.
Because I do live in fear of a bad take has the potential to wind up impacting 10 people's livelihoods.
And that's a heck of a responsibility. That's the reason I was so reluctant to begin hiring people.
Where, sure, if I screw up and it's me,
I can go find a job somewhere and I'll survive.
But now it's other people are depending on me
to get this stuff right.
And that becomes a heavy weight to carry from time to time.
Yeah, I mean, I certainly look at being an engineering manager
in that way.
Like, I'm responsible for people's lives.
I feel like generally in the field though of engineering management,
I'm fortunate in that I'm getting,
this is my second go at being a manager.
I was a manager in my twenties and because I was in my twenties and my main
priorities, my twenties were planning happy hours.
I think I have a little bit more perspective about how to be responsible to people.
But on the flip side of that, the bar is incredibly low.
It really is.
For how people feel responsible to other people and how they live that, how they behave,
is it whether or not they're responsible to other people?
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in the cloud. Yeah, on some level it seems that, well, oh, I said something dumb and half the
company got fired. Well, those people were dumb enough to trust me. I guess they'll know better
in the future. No, no, no, that is not their failing. Let's be very clear on this.
Yeah. You're responsible for other people's lives. Like, you know, if you are in any capacity
for their lives or livelihoods.
Management's hard. I mean, the reason I generally don't have direct reports even now,
and the reporting structure rolls through my business partner is that my belief has always been that to manage people effectively, you've got to be extraordinarily
promotional of them and what they do and help build them up. Whereas on the media side of what
I do with the podcast, the newsletter, I have to be incredibly self-promotional. It's a weird
expression of marketing. So that means DevRel meets a bunch of other things. And I don't know
that those two are necessarily congruent, at least as the way that I believe management should be done.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
I think a lot of being a good manager is turning around and highlighting what other people are doing, showcasing those people, lifting them up, building them up. I've been thinking about
what my philosophy as a manager is, if that makes a lot of sense. And I think that the closest thing
that I've come to is being sort of having a trauma-informed approach, because I feel like
working in this industry is very, very, especially for a large company or companies at the scale of which I've been working up to this
point, for lack of a better term, like burnout or approaching burnout is a traumatic experience for
people. So how do you head that off? What signs do you look for if someone's approaching burnout?
How do you help someone recover from burnout? Because people can't, not everyone can afford to
take time off and not work for six months in order to recover.
So how do you do that?
How do you keep those people happy and alive and aware and still working, right?
And still working toward whatever goals that you set?
So thinking about that in terms of being trauma aware and thinking about the things that people have encountered, either projects not going the way that they wanted to or getting passed up for opportunities that they felt
belonged to them and what that can do to someone and how I can be a person to help them heal,
but still keeping them happy and productive at the same time.
That's the hard part from my perspective, is figuring out how to
balance all these competing objectives and things that need to get done in certain orders and in
certain priorities. Saying yes to one thing means saying no to something else. How do you prioritize?
I didn't realize how much of management was juggling. Oh yeah, oh yeah. It's juggling on a
unicycle while music is playing, right? It's a lot, but I like it.
I certainly was not equipped for it in my 20s.
I'm glad that I had another chance to take another stab at it this late in the game.
Yeah.
One other thing that I noticed in your biography that just absolutely resonates with me is,
oh, great, you have the same
horrible, obnoxious, expensive hobby that I do, namely building mechanical keyboards.
Yes.
Tell me a little bit about that.
I like throwing money out the window, setting it on fire. I don't know. I think it actually,
seriously, though, it actually has been a fun way for me to pick up new skills. At least it started that way.
Now it's just sort of me dumping money into a dumpster
and collecting switches and all these sorts of things
and an outlet for me to have a series of projects
in varying degrees of completion.
Yeah, it's like, how many ErgoDocs have you built?
Two and a half.
Tell me more about that half.
I'd really rather not.
Yeah, it's like the pile of switches like,
oh, are those the loud ones or the quiet ones?
Well, technically those are the weighted Xelios
that have a slightly different model.
Yeah, going down that entire ridiculous rabbit hole.
And the worst part of all of that
is that now that we're all working remotely,
you don't get the payoff from all of this,
which is annoying the living hell out of people
in the open plan office next to you. Oh, I've made up for that by annoying the liver out of my wife who
works from home right now because of the pandemic. She's working a floor below me. And every time
things get a little too loud with the typing, she shouts, dear diary, up toward me. Because she can hear everything clicking.
And I was like, oh, I must be on a roll here.
So yeah, I mean, it's certainly, it's absolutely annoying.
But it really is a way for me to just have fun.
And I get to play with things and keycaps of different colors.
And I learned a lot about keycap profiles.
That was something that was completely foreign to profiles. That was something that, you
know, was completely foreign to me. I was just like, a keyboard's a keyboard. Oh yeah. I like
the SAs quite a bit. My hands do get tired. Oh yeah. No, the SAs are nice. It certainly reminds
me of, I remember my mom worked in a lab. She was a quality control chemist for most of her career
and had this really old calculator that weighed maybe, I don't know, 55, 60 pounds,
because it was a calculator from the 60s. And the key caps, they definitely, I'm guessing they're
probably SA profile, but just to be able to do simple math on it, how hard you had to press the
keys, at least for my six or seven-year-old fingers. It was like the equivalent of running
a hammer on these just to eight plus eight. Okay, let's wait 30 minutes to get the answer.
And it's funny how much of that stuff has come full circle. I would probably kill to have that.
Oh, it has. It's hipster keyboards. Let's not kid ourselves here. But it's such a nice departure
from our day-to-day work lives of making the lights on the screen form different patterns, which from a very literalist perspective is what our jobs entirely are.
And that's, yeah, this is something real in the world I can point at and say, I built that.
Or in more common cases, there's that thing I tried to build failed and it's sitting there just taunting me with disappointment in the corner for months on end until I cleaned it up.
Yeah, no, absolutely.
Like, oh, those cold solder joints.
Oh, I messed this up.
I'm going to have to buy another PCB. How much does that
cost again? Right.
So, yeah, it's been so much fun.
And I actually have another
insanely expensive PCB
coming in the mail in November that I'm getting.
I'm like, I can't
dress my dog up for Halloween and take him trick-or-treating
this year, so at least I have this keyboard coming, and that can be the equivalent of a Halloween costume in my mind.
So here's the $64,000 question.
What is your current keyboard?
My current keyboard is a...
I use the Laser SA keys from, I think, Mido.
And it's on a GH60 right now.
And those switches are MX Cherry Browns.
Yeah, those aren't super noisy. So yeah, I don't know what your wife is complaining about now.
They want noise. Oh, here we go. My next project, when I decided to get really fun about this,
is I don't even care what the key switches are going to be, but I want to wire in an Arduino or microcontroller of some sort and a mini speaker so it plays a sound on every key press.
Because I don't care what the click is, I want it to make a beep or a boop or something incredibly annoying or spark off surfing birds.
So it's birds the word for 30 seconds with every key press.
And see how long it takes someone to come in and use that keyboard to beat me to death in my chair. I mean, my keyboard isn't loud, but it certainly makes,
I think the edges of the keycaps make enough of a noise to be annoying when I'm really on a roll.
But I definitely think if I did that, I would absolutely not make it through the week,
or maybe through the day, if it was making any noise.
I would love to make a soundboard, though.
Like, get a small PCB and make a soundboard that does the, like, air horn,
that brr-brr-brr-brr air horn and and you know a couple other fun things there's definitely it would be a nice little stress release at the end of the day just or you know make a short loop some beats but have some
some fun keys and fun switches on it instead yeah it's a fun hobby i enjoy playing around with it for better or worse it's not the end of days
type of hobby where it's oh great this new thing came out and it cost me twenty thousand dollars
you can get started in these in this space for 50 bucks it's not something that has an incredibly
high barrier to entry it lets me play with my hands and fool myself for a little while into
believing that i'm making a physical change in the world. Yeah, no, I definitely feel like I've done something.
I mean, last year was really strange
in that we had to have several appliances replaced
in our house at the same time,
including the hot water heater.
And this was just as I was really starting
to get into some like advanced,
more advanced soldering types of things.
And the plumber who was putting the
water heater was like, I have to solder this new pipe, this lead pipe into the water heater that
goes into your basement. And I was like, did you say soldering? And that's when I learned
how soldering really works when you're having to do that to solder copper pipes into someone's home
for a hot water heater. And I was like, ah, what I'm doing is child's play compared to the actual real world application of soldering. But he was kind
enough to let me run the torch a little bit. So that was fun. It's nice to have something that's
a little bit less staring at a screen, especially in these, this era of lockdown, but it can be more
than a hobby and into the territory of problem if you're not
careful. So I've sort of gotten out of it for a little bit. So I think that's probably a good
point to wind up leaving it. If people want to hear more about what you have to say, where can
they find you? I get saucy on Twitter and other forms of social media at CJ Wilburn. I'm active
on social medias. I'm not as snarky and fun as you are, but I certainly
will give an opinion or two about anything. Or if you want to hear a lot about anything related to
Prince and his music, another place to look at that as well. You are my new go-to for that.
Oh, awesome. Well, I might end up getting on your nerves. I talk about prints maybe as much as you talk about the cloud.
Excellent.
You know, we all need things to focus on,
and I think that's as valid of a topic as any other.
Thanks so much for taking the time to speak with me.
I appreciate it.
It was my pleasure.
Courtney Wilburn, Engineering Manager at Elastic for Cloud SRE Tooling.
I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. Courtney Wilburn, Engineering Manager at Elastic for Cloud SRE Tooling.
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