Blog Posts & Recent Episodes
Episode Followup – AI (for Normal People) with AWS Hero Thorsten Hoger
Join us as Thorsten breaks down how everyday people – small business owners, retirees, hobbyists, and anyone who isn’t a …
Episode Followup – Agentic AI: In The Real World
Join us as Dave walks through what it actually takes to build custom AI agents from scratch – not theory, but real projec …
Episode Followup – How to get to AWS re:Invent FOR FREE
Join us as Dale Orders (AWS Community Builder, four-time All Builders Welcome participant from Australia) walks through e …
Episode Followup – How to get to AWS re:Invent FOR FREE
Join us as Dale Orders (AWS Community Builder, four-time All Builders Welcome participant from Australia) walks through e …
Episode Followup – Trusted Publishing
Join us as Mike Fiedler (AWS Hero, PyPI Safety & Security Engineer, Python Software Foundation) makes the case for elimin …
Episode Followup – Yelling at LLM Costs
AI subscriptions are becoming as essential as internet bills – and just as expensive. The vBrownBag gang takes a hard loo …
Episode Followup – The AI Dev Skills You Need to Future-Proof Your Career
Join us as Brian Hough (CEO & Founder of Tech Stack Playbook, AWS Hero) gets brutally honest about the state of tech hiri …
Episode Followup – Claude / Codex / Gemini / Open-model Gen AI from Zero with Andrew Brown
Andrew Brown (ExamPro) joins the vBrownBag crew to talk Gen AI skills, bootcamps, and whether vibe coding has made “learn …
Episode Followup – Survive & Thrive: Skills for Techs in 2026 with Stephen Sennett
AWS Hero Stephen Sennett joins the vBrownBag crew to argue that foundational knowledge matters more now, not less. 🧠 The …
Episode Followup – Getting Started with Local AI
Join us for Part 1 of a 3-part series as Du’An Lightfoot (Senior AI Engineer at Akamai) breaks down everything you need t …
Episode Followup – AI for Good
Join us as Kira Intrator (MIT-trained urban planner, systems thinker, and social impact technologist based in Geneva) mak …
Episode Followup – 700,000 Learners Later: AWS Education Community and What’s Changed
Join us as Hiroko Nishimura (AWS Hero, LinkedIn Learning Instructor, and author of AWS for Non-Engineers) reflects on sev …
Episode Followup – Uncovering the Hard Truth of Vendor Neutrality in OTEL
Join us as Josh and Adriana call BS on the oversimplified vendor neutrality narrative – because switching observability v …
Episode Followup – Troubleshooting AWS Hallucinations from Vector Store DBs
Join us as Amelia shares the debugging story nobody tells you about – how her vector store DB couldn’t surface specific d …
Episode Followup – AI Agents Made Simple: Everything You Need to Know
Join us as Du’An breaks down AI agents in a way that actually makes sense – what they are, how to use them, and how to ge …
Episode Followup – This is Fine: Tech Employment in the AI Era
Join us as Chris gets brutally honest about tech employment in the AI era� what’s dying, what’s thriving, and how to posi …
Episode Followup – AI Governance for Virtualized Infrastructure: What vSphere Admins Need to Know
Join us as Marian explains what AI governance means for vSphere administrators and why it matters now.
Marian wal …
Episode Followup – FinOps – What It Is & Why It Matters
Join us as Peter explores the core principles and practices of FinOps that help organizations optimize cloud spend withou …
Episode Followup – Observability 2.0 – More Than Just Logs, Metrics & Traces
Join us as Neel explores how observability is evolving beyond traditional logs, metrics, and traces into a predictive, AI …
Episode Followup – Teaching AI to Terraform (So We Don’t Have To)
Join us as Sam demonstrates how to teach AI to write Terraform configurations using Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. …