Lakindu Hewawasam is a Software Engineer at Enlear and in this episode, we talk about the proper way to scale serverless architectures using AWS services and some lessons learned from his previous projects! Resources: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lakindu-hewawasam/ https://twitter.com/lakinduhewa
Peter Sankauskas is CPTO at Hustle, and in this episode, we go through an AWS survey that he built to help gain a greater understanding of which AWS services are the superstars and which ones aren’t getting as much attention from users! Resources: https://answersforaws.com https://twitter.com/pas256
Lahiru Hewawasam is Global Cyber Security Operations Lean at Axiata Digital Labs and in this episode, we talk about zero trust architecture within the AWS cloud! Resources: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lahiru962/ https://twitter.com/LahiruHewaa
Rob Hirschfeld is CEO of RackN, and in this episode, we go through the pros and cons of Terraform and how to leverage it for use in Multiple clouds! Resources: Infrastructure as Code at Enterprise Scale?> https://youtu.be/bmPCSsAMayw Building templates from scratch > https://youtu.be/EfJ0d9pr16k Digital Rebar playlist > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXPBeIrpXjfigvrXEQIJxXmFdTHqobooH https://fosstodon.org/@zehicle@hachyderm.io https://twitter.com/zehicle
Ken Collins is an AWS Serverless Hero and a Staff Engineer for Custom Ink, and in this episode, he takes us through software design patterns, Kubernetes, and AWS Lambda! Resources: https://www.linkedin.com/in/metaskills/
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
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
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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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/
Roger White (https://twitter.com/rogerkwhite1) shares his experience with the AWS security black belt program, what is it, and why it’s good to become involved! Resources: https://awssecworkshops.com/workshops/ https://aws.amazon.com/partners/programs/
Solution Architect Nathan Farrar (@nfarroar) gives us a deep dive into Azure networking. What works, pitfalls to beware of, and how to design a redundant, scalable, enterprise grade network! Resources: https://twitter.com/nfarroar https://farroar.com/
AWS Hero Rob Koch (@robcube) gives us an introduction to Kubernetes, AWS EKS, K8s best practices and tons of live demo fun that you can do at home! Resources: https://twitter.com/robcube https://github.com/robcube https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-amazon-eks-distro/
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!
Tonight will be talking with Kristi Perreault (@kperreault95) covering Serverless DevOps, and how to scale a Serverless First initiative inside of your organization. Kristi is a Senior Software Engineer in Serverless Enablement and Development at Liberty Mutual Insurance, and the conversation we will be having tonight dives into what she and her team have been
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On the 7th birthday of AWS Lambda, Matt Morgan (https://twitter.com/NullishCoalesce) will help you stop hugging your bare metal and get into the serves mindset. To view all the slides covered in this talk, use the link to Matt’s blog below! Resources: https://mattmorgan.cloud/ https://mattmorgan.cloud/appearances#vbrownbag https://docs.aws.amazon.com/step-functions/latest/dg/concepts-amazon-states-language.html
Tonight will be talking with Earl Dodd covering an introduction to HPC, or High Performance Computing, in the cloud. Earl J. Dodd is World Wide Technology???s Global HPC Business Practice Leader for HPC. He provides HPC and Supercomputing strategy, technology enablement, business development, and marketing and sales support to WWT???s global enterprises and governments. He
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Shannon Kuehn presents “Accelerate Your Journey to Cloud with Azure VMware Solution” Shannon Kuehn is a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft. In this talk Shannon talks about cloud migrations, Azure VMware Solution, and the who-what-when-where-why of using AVS in your cloud migration strategy! Resources: AVS Overview – https://azure.microsoft.com/services/azure-vmware/ AVS Documentation – https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/ Azure VMware Solution
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Ned Bellavance (@Ned1313) sits down with us for an discussion about Terraform, the latest from Hashiconf, tips and tricks for using Terraform for automating your infrastructure, and more. Ned is a Hashicorp Ambassador, a Microsoft MVP, and a Pluralsight author. He currently hosts and cohosts podasts such as Day Two Cloud, Buffer Overflow, and The
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Vinnie Ramirez presents “Cisco Intersight Service for HashiCorp Terraform” Vinnie Ramirez is a Solutions Architect at Hashicorp. In this talk, Vinnie walks us through the Terraform OSS and Enterprise product and how they are different. Then he goes into the architecture of the Cisco Intersight Service and how it can integrate with Terraform to streamline
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Sean Doyle (@cloudosmotic) presents “Fun with AWS Step Functions”.Sean Doyle is a Principal Cloud Architect with over 20 years in the IT industry ranging from Systems Engineering to Automation and DevOps. Sean also held the titles of AWS Partner Ambassador and AWS Partner AI/ML Blackbelt. In this episode, Sean provides an overview of the AWS
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