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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
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
-> Continue reading Episode Followup – What is OpenShift and what does it have to do with Kubernetes?
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/
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
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/
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
AWS Hero Brian Tarbox (@btarbox) comes on to talk about all things AWS Alexa! How to make an Alexa app (a ‘skill’), how to make in-skill purchasing options, and how to retire early off all that money! Resources: https://twitter.com/btarbox https://briantarbox.org/
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!
Shala Warner (@giftedlane) Cloud Engineer for WWT, comes onto the show to discuss her transition from networking to cloud, her learning process and how she’s doing it! Resources: https://twitter.com/giftedlane https://www.twitch.tv/giftedlane https://www.wwt.com/ https://youtu.be/oja7yWbObwg
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
-> Continue reading Episode Followup – Dennis Faucher Starting Machine Learning
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
-> Continue reading Episode Followup – Serverless DevOps: How to Scale a Serverless First Initiative
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
-> Continue reading Episode Followup – Introduction to HPC in the Cloud By Earl Dodd
Tim Banks (@elchefe) Principal Cloud Economist for the Duckbill Group, comes onto the show to discuss cloud spend, cost optimization, and engineering best practices! Resources: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/ https://twitter.com/elchefe
Katarina Brookfield (https://twitter.com/mrsbrookfield) continues our series covering the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam. Kat covers the troubleshooting domain of the exam with lots of hands on examples! Troubleshooting of nodes and pods are both on the agenda! Resources: http://advecti.io/ http://advecti.io/2021/my-cka-exam-experience-and-tips/ https://kubernetes.io/docs/home/ https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/cheatsheet/
Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) stops by for a post AWS re:Invent visit to do a live question and answer session with the audience! Resources: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/ https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig https://www.youtube.com/c/amazonwebservices/featured https://youtu.be/RtMSX9S0WUM
Jessica Garson presents “Getting Started With Python Visualizations” Jessica Garson is a senior developer advocate for twitter as well as a musician who creates her sound with python! In this episode she live codes how to quickly stand up a data visualization using Python & the Twitter API! Resources: https://twitter.com/jessicagarson https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/getting-started https://dev.to/twitterdev/getting-started-with-data-visualization-with-dash-and-recent-search-counts-22jn https://getting-started-with-dash.herokuapp.com/ https://twittercommunity.com/