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 …
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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 …
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Episode Followup – Learn Infrastructure-as-Code [the FUN way] through Minecraft
Join us for the final episode of 2025 as Mark Tinderholt (Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft Azure, HashiCorp Ambas …
Episode Followup – How to Build AI Agents with Strands
Join Du’An Lightfoot, AI Developer at AWS, as he dives deep into building AI agents with the strands framework. In this t …
Episode Followup – KubeVirt for vSphere Admins with Eric Shanks
Dive into KubeVirt with the vBrownBag crew and guest Eric Shanks! 🎤 Discover how vSphere admins can bridge their virtual …
Episode Followup – From Speech to Speech: A Tale about Amazon Nova Sonic
In this week’s vBrownBag, Principal Software Engineer Dominik Wosiński takes us on a deep dive into Amazon Nova Sonic — A …
Episode Followup – OpenStack Demystified: A Practical Guide for VMware Admins with Damian Karlson
Join the vBrownBag crew for an insightful session with guest (and host!) Damian Karlson as he breaks down OpenStack for V …