Author: Automator of The Things

Episode Followup – How I Used Python & JavaScript to Build 3-D Tools in Space! with Christi Kazakov

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Chrisi Kazakov is Senior Software Engineer for WWT and in this episode we talk about a “fun little side project” that she is doing where she’s creating a program that helps PEOPLE IN SPACE select the correct tool to be 3-D printed faster in a “stressful environment” (like… the air is leaving the space capsule!)
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Episode Followup – IT and Woodworking: a match made in quarantine presented by Jad El-Zein

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Jad El-Zein (https://twitter.com/virtualjad) shares how he adopted a new hobby of woodworking during COVID lockdown. Hear all of Jad’s lessons learned, tips and tricks, and favorite resources. Resources: https://www.mfgtray.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Fraction-Decimal-Conversion.pdf https://www.sketchup.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/Bourbonmothdecor https://www.youtube.com/thewoodwhisperer https://www.youtube.com/c/FishersShop https://www.youtube.com/c/darbinorvar https://www.youtube.com/c/JaredAndCassy https://www.youtube.com/c/Fixthisbuildthat https://www.youtube.com/c/TylerG1 https://www.youtube.com/c/SharaWoodshopDiaries https://www.youtube.com/c/KatzMosesWoodworkingShop

Episode Followup – VMware Cloud Foundation Lab Constructor – On YOUR Prem presented by Ben Sier and Heath Johnson

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Ben Sier (https://twitter.com/DataReload) and Heath Johnson (https://twitter.com/heathbarj) give updates on the latest version of the VMware Cloud Foundation Lab Constructor (VLC). Run the entire VMware SDDC stack in your home or work lab and deploy it with automation! Resources: https://github.com/jsenicka/holodeck-standard http://tiny.cc/getVLC http://tiny.cc/getVLCSlack https://datareload.com/ https://github.com/Heathbarj/HCX-Multisite-Deployment

Episode Followup – Bias and Ignorance in Continous Delivery with Christian Tragesser

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Christian Tragesser is senior DevOps Engineer for WWT “As a consultant, I???ve participated in many projects intended to improve the velocity of custom software development, application resiliency, and a preferred customer experience. Often, continuous delivery accompanied by a myriad of DevOps-related tools are targeted solutions for realizing these characteristics. However, many efforts fail to achieve
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Episode Followup – What Git Metrics Can Tell You About Your Team presented by Dwayne McDaniel

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Tonight we are again joined by Dwayne McDaniel (@mcdwayne) who will be helping us explore what Git Metrics can tell you about your team. In this interesting talk, Dwayne helps us align DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) metrics to metrics that can be discovered in your git environments. With this data, we can measure and
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Episode Followup – Everything I Wish I Knew About AWS Certification with Andrew Brown

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CEO of ExamPro and AWS Hero, Andrew Brown walks us through how to study for an AWS exam, where you should get started, and what you should do after you pass! He also provides insight into which track you should follow based upon which job you are aspiring to get! Resources: https://www.exampro.co/ https://twitter.com/andrewbrown https://www.slideshare.net/ChrisWilliams33/what-i-wish-i-knew-about-aws-certification-2022

Episode Followup – Flying Blind: Real-Time Video Analytics w/ #Python & OpenCV with Leah Ellis-Clemons

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Data Scientist at World Wide Technology, Leah Ellis-Clemons gives an overview of the specific considerations for implementing machine learning models in Python in real time including OpenCV and Multiprocessing… She gives us a live demonstration of her code as well! Resources: https://github.com/LEllisClemons/Lego_Detector_Realtime https://www.kaggle.com/code/databeru/classify-bricks-compare-transfer-learning-model/notebook https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/joosthazelzet/lego-brick-images https://www.linkedin.com/in/leah-ellis-clemons-6230aa68/ https://www.udemy.com/course/python-for-computer-vision-with-opencv-and-deep-learning

Episode Followup – Demystifing Git presented by Dwayne McDaniel

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Tonight we are joined by Dwayne McDaniel (@mcdwayne) who will be helping us Demystify Git. We will journey into the .git folder, and take a look at how git really operates under the hood, a little bit of history on git, and exciting new features of git, as well as some lesser known features that
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Episode Followup – APIs Aren’t Just For Developers Anymore with Shannon Kuehn

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Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, Shannon Kuehn (@shankuehn) walks us through a brilliant introduction on what a APIs are, REST vs SOAP vs XML, and how YOU can start using them straight away! Resources: https://twitter.com/shankuehn https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannonkuehn/ https://425show.com https://www.postman.com/ https://youtu.be/NXhKhuILxYw

Episode Followup – What is OpenShift and what does it have to do with Kubernetes?

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Tonight will be talking with Diamond Jorsling (@EngineeredCurlz) covering OpenShift; what it is, why it is awesome, and how it compares to vanilla Kubernetes. Diamond is an SRE who focuses on DevSecOps. She works with all things RedHat, AWS, CI/CD, and Containers. She currently works with Microsoft focusing on RedHat Openshift. She provides an overview
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Episode Followup – Squeaky Clean Code by Kristi Perreault

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Principal Software Engineer in Serverless Kristi Perreault (@kperreault95) gives us a master class with “Squeaky Clean Code: How to develop and adopt better coding practices” where we learn how to be thoughtful with our coding design and processes. We really enjoyed this session!! Resources: https://twitter.com/kperreault95 https://kristiperreault.medium.com/

Episode Followup – The AI way of reminding you to wear face masks – Vivek Raja

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Vivek Raja @VivekRaja007 https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/heroes/vivek-raja/ presented a very cool session for #vBrownbag. He made AWS Rekognition easy to understand and walked us through how to begin, and even shared the repo where he has the code he showed in the live demo https://github.com/Vivek0712/aws-reskill-ai-services

Episode Followup – Build Cloud-Native Apps with Serverless Integration Testing by Luc van Donkersgoed

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In this fantastic episode, AWS Hero and Community Builder Luc van Donkersgoed (@donkersgood) gives us a view into how his company has incorporated integration testing into their serverless AWS environments! Resources: https://twitter.com/donkersgood https://bitesizedserverless.com/

Episode Followup – Prevent Surprise AWS Bills Through Simple Free Monitoring by Chris Scott

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Chris Scott (@ccsdevio) comes on to talk about all things AWS Cost Optimization! We learn about the AWS costing structure, best practices, how to setup AWS Lambdas to monitor cost, and a little bit about impostor syndrome! Resources: https://twitter.com/ccsdevio https://github.com/ccsdevio/saferAWS

Episode Followup – How To Make Your Organization Cloud Ready – David Sol

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David Sol delivered an excellent presentation on how organizations can become ready for the paradigm shift to cloud. He gave us 3 stories that are easy to remember and transmit important lessons. You can find David online at https://twitter.com/soldavidcloud . Look forward to more presentations by David in our vBrownbagLATAMs channel as well!