Nikki McDonald is a content director at O'Reilly Media, where she works with the industry's leading practitioners to develop books, online courses, and training videos to help engineers and developers create and deploy complex, cloud native systems. She also co-chairs O'Reilly's Velocity Conference, held around the world in cities like San Jose, London, and Berlin. Nikki started out as a features editor at MacUser magazine back when people were still dialing up to the internet with AOL. She lives in Ann Arbor, MI.