Episode Followup – What Git Metrics Can Tell You About Your Team presented by Dwayne McDaniel

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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!

Episode Followup – Dennis Faucher Starting Machine Learning

D3ennis Faucher (https://twitter.com/DennisFaucher) gave an absolute gem of a presentation. He is encouraging everyone to get started in ML in this session, where he discusses basic concepts and then gets into how we can all get started. He gave us all the links and was even nice enough to organize them through slides: Here is
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Episode Followup – Serverless DevOps: How to Scale a Serverless First Initiative

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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Episode Followup – The Serverless Mindset presented by Matt Morgan

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

Episode Followup – Introduction to HPC in the Cloud By Earl Dodd

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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