Today’s guest on Cloud Gossip is Marcia Villalba! Marcia is a Senior Developer Advocate for AWS Serverless, speaker, organizer, and content creator. Today we’re going to learn about what her role is like and how she has been operating internally and externally during the pandemic. Marcia is going to give us her opinion on virtual events and discuss who can really benefit from them going forward. She’s going to share her expertise about serverless services in AWS, their origin, how they work, their benefits and future. We’ll receive some advice on what’s good to learn next in the serverless space and hear about some of Marcia’s favourite AWS serverless features. Marcia is going to talk about some of her favourite communities and diversity and inclusion initiatives and her experience with them. And we’ll also chat about some fantasy sci-fi tech and imagine what the future of tech holds for us. NOTE: This episode was recorded in June 2021, so some terms and technologies might have changed. Follow Marcia for up-to date updates on AWS Serverless. Enjoy the episode and don’t miss the links and resources mentioned in the episode, you can find them at the bottom of the page.
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Marcia Villalba is Senior Developer Advocate for AWS Serverless, and a public speaker.
She’s also a very active content creator, she posts weekly on her “FooBar” youtube channel content related to serverless and the cloud. She also has a separate channel in Spanish called “Marcia y La Nube” and is also the host of the Podcast “Charlas Técnicas de AWS”.
For the past 20 years, she has been designing and developing software. Marcia worked in all the different stages of building software that scales and performs. She has deep knowledge of building applications in the cloud, with serverless and using DevOps processes.
Her passion is designing systems that can take full advantage of the cloud and embrace the DevOps culture. She writes regularly in the AWS News Blog about new upcoming AWS launches.
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