The History of the Cloud with Jeffrey Meyerson & Kelsey Hightower
Tags: discuss, podcast, cloud
Published: 2021-06-23 15:53:59

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title: The History of the Cloud with Jeffrey Meyerson &	Kelsey Hightower
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description: Listen to S5E7 of DevDiscuss!
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This week, I'm joined by my friend [Vaidehi Joshi](http://twitter.com/vaidehijoshi), software engineer, creator of the Base.cs blog series, and co-host of the Base.cs podcast. 

@vaidehijoshi joins me to catch up with [Kelsey Hightower](https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower), staff developer advocate for the Google Cloud Platform, and [Jeffrey Meyerson](https://dev.to/software_daily), founder of Software Daily and the host of the [Software Engineering Daily podcast](https://dev.to/sedaily), as we delve into the history of the Cloud. 

From the origins of AWS (for better or worse) to the gravitas of Microsoft, we discuss one of my favourite topics: culture, the birth of DevOps, and why Kelsey learned Java.


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### Our guests this week were...

- [Kelsey Hightower](http://devpods.herokuapp.com/profiles/6) is a staff developer advocate at Google. Find Kelsey on Twitter [@kelseyhightower](http://twitter.com/kelseyhightower) and GitHub [kelseyhightower](http://github.com/kelseyhightower).
- [Jeffrey Meyerson](http://devpods.herokuapp.com/profiles/217) is the founder of Software Daily and the host of the Software Engineering Daily podcast. Find Jeffrey on Twitter [@the_prion](http://twitter.com/@the_prion) and GitHub [crablar](http://github.com/crablar). **Our apologies to Jeffrey for misspelling "Jeffrey" in this post's title and URL** 😬

Tune into S5E7 of DevDiscuss for more answers to the eternal question: where do clouds come from?

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_Acknowledgements_ 
- _@levisharpe for producing & mixing the show_
- _Our season five sponsors: [CockroachDB](cockroachlabs.com/devdiscuss), [Cloudways](https://www.cloudways.com/en/?id=893892), [Scout APM](https://www.scoutapm.com/devdiscuss) & [Rudderstack](https://rudderstack.com/?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CMPGN_3_PS&utm_content=None&utm_term={keyword}&raid=6dbc05eeb293b421f68d02ce12648240)!_

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