Blog Posts & Recent Episodes
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. …
Episode Followup – Evolution of Tool Use and MCP in Generative AI
Join us as Gautam breaks down the evolution of tool use in generative AI and dives deep into MCP.
Gautam walks thr …
Episode Followup – 2026 AWS Survey with Peter Sankauskas
Join the vBrownBag crew and AWS Hero Peter Sankauskas for the 2026 AWS Community Survey 🎯 – your chance to shape the con …