#vBrownBag Episodes

Episode Followup – Sleep Better By Writing Python Test with Eric Matthes

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Eric Matthes is author of the best selling book Python Crash Course. In this episode he discusses the why of software testing and then walks us through a live coding example to create tests for a text editor he created! Resources: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-matthes-598765205/ https://nostarch.com/python-crash-course-3rd-edition https://ehmatthes.github.io/pcc_3e/ https://mostlypython.substack.com/ https://github.com/ehmatthes/django-simple-deploy https://django-simple-deploy.readthedocs.io https://github.com/initialcommit-com/git-sim https://github.com/ehmatthes/whimbrel https://pypi.org/project/pexpect/ http://learngrandstaff.com/ https://automationpanda.com/2018/08/01/the-testing-pyramid/

Episode Followup – How to Kick Ass with Python, Lambdas, and Terraform with Sean Tibor

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Sean Tibor is a Sr. Cloud Engineer at Mondelez International and host of the Teaching Python Podcast! In this episode, he discusses tools, lessons learned, and best practices for using Terraform in a serverless environment! Resources: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seantibor/ https://twitter.com/smtibor https://serverless.tf/ https://github.com/antonbabenko/serverless.tf https://docs.powertools.aws.dev/lambda/python/latest/ https://docs.python.org/3/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/fluent-python-2nd/9781492056348/

Episode Followup – Can You Test Your Infrastructure as Code (IaC)? with Rosemary Wang

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Rosemary Wang is a Senior Developer Advocate at HashiCorp and author of “Infrastructure as Code, Patterns and Practices: With examples in Python and Terraform”! In this episode she discusses tools, lessons learned and best practices for testing Terraform! Resources: https://joatmon08.github.io/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosemarywang/ https://twitter.com/joatmon08 https://tinyurl.com/rosemary-iac

Episode Followup – Refactoring Your Python Code Without Losing Your Mind with Chris May

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Chris May is a Python Consultant, Trainer, & Author: In this episode, he discusses best practices & methods for refactoring your Python code. When you should, when you shouldn’t, and gives us a step-by-step example of how to do it! Resources: https://www.linkedin.com/in/1chrismay/ https://fosstodon.org/@_chrismay https://twitter.com/_ChrisMay https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/tech-debt-day https://everydaysuperpowers.dev/resources/python-refactoring-toolkit/ https://everydaysuperpowers.dev

Episode Followup – Terraform Practices to Enable Infrastructure Scaling with Hila Fish

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Hila Fish is a Sr. DevOps Engineer at Wix, a HashiCorp Ambassador, and an AWS Community Builder(Whew!)! In this episode she discusses best practices for deploying Terraform at scale! Resources: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hila-fish/ https://twitter.com/Hilafish1 https://bit.ly/3QwhL7t https://docs.aws.amazon.com/tag-editor/latest/userguide/tagging.html https://bit.ly/3D9NfNy https://bit.ly/3RQyUtC https://bit.ly/3TWoV80 https://bit.ly/3Brt7Fp https://bit.ly/3KZUQjG https://bit.ly/3U8xJYz

Episode Followup – Diving deep on CI/CD – Why you should START with it by Johannes Koch (@Lockhead)

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Having talked to a lot of builders (Community Builders, AWS engineers, …) world wide there is a pattern of new projects being started without proper CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment) in mind which later results in decreased developer productivity. Starting with the value flow of developer experience and DevSecOps best practices we are going
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Episode Followup – How To Give Back to Open Source Without Losing Your Mind

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Mike Fiedler is a PyPI maintainer and Code Gardener and in this episode we talk about how to contribute to open source software (OSS)! We learn how to start easy, contribute effectively, and the best ways to get started! Resources: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miketheman/ https://twitter.com/mikefiedler https://choosealicense.com/ https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example https://www.codetriage.com/ https://goodfirstissue.dev/ https://opensource.com/ https://hacktoberfest.com/

Episode Followup – Once More Into The Breach by Renaldi Gondosubroto

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Renaldi Gondosubroto is a developer advocate for cloud security as well as an AWS Community Builder and joins us today with his talk Once More Into the Breach, establishing a secure coding culture in an era of continuous threats. Renaldi is a software developer, enjoys ethical hacking, and enjoys sharing his knowledge and insights at
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Episode Followup – Using Cloudflare Tunnels for Self-Hosted Apps with Chris Colotti

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Chris Colotti is Principal Solutions Architect at Cohesity and in this episode: We all run some kind of self-hosted apps, and we’ve probably been accessing them remotely in similar ways, but there’s a new much more secure, and easy way to access all these self-hosted applications using CloudFlare Tunnels and CloudFlare Access which is FREE!
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Episode Followup – Building Loosely Coupled & Scalable Backends Using AWS Serverless with Lakindu Hewawasam

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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

Episode Followup – Decomposing Terraform for Multiple Clouds with Rob Hirschfeld

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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