Talking Shop with a Unix Historian with Tabitha Sable
Tabitha Sable is a systems security engineer at Datadog who moonlights as a Unix historian.
Join Corey and Tabitha as they discuss what it was like to join Datadog right when the pandemic shut everything down, how Tabitha got experience with Unix workstations, what was going on in Murray Hill, New Jersey, in the early 1970s, whether operating systems matter any more or not, what happens when you type www.google.com into your browser and press enter, why job interviews are awful, how Tabitha conducts interviews, the power of referring people for jobs, why you should hire for strengths instead of absence of weakness, and more.
About the Guest
Tabitha Sable has been a hacker and sysadmin since the turn of the century. She serves Kubernetes as co-chair of SIG Security and an associate member of the Product Security Committee. She loves to build tools and make friends, and puts those skills to work coordinating the efforts of the infrastructure, security, and product teams at Datadog. Outside of work, she can often be found organizing or participating in Capture the Flag contests and loves "pretty much anything with wheels."
Links Referenced:
- Datadog: https://www.datadoghq.com/
- “The Ironies of Automation”: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0005109883900468
- International Journal of Proof of Concept, or Get Out The [BLEEP] out: https://pocorgtfo.hacke.rs/
- “Reliable Code Execution on a Tamagotchi”: https://doc8643.com/pocorgtfo/pocorgtfo02.pdf
- “What happens when you type google.com into your browser's address box and press enter?": https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/tabbysable
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