Working the Weather in the Cloud with Jake Hendy

Published: Dec. 22, 2021, 11 a.m.

b'From across the pond in jolly old England we are joined by Jake Hendy, a Technical Lead at the Met Office, to inform us about what it is like to work on the cloud for a government. Avoid the knee jerk reaction of \\u201cshould governments be working on things that crash all the time?\\u201d and take a moment to hear Jake\\u2019s take.\\n\\nJake discusses his work at the UK\\u2019s National Meteorological Service and the wide array of work they do, and the various organizations they do that work with. From NATO to airlines to supermarkets, the Met Office and Jake\\u2019s work is a pretty fascinating space to keep an eye on. Jake goes into how institutional figures like his own office are using the cloud, and the possibilities that they can leverage to the field.'