All Hands on Tech

We have a new podcast out, which you may have already heard the trailer for. It's called TECHnically Possible and it's all about where our current and emerging technologies might just end up, and what that actually means for us humans...including the good, the bad and the strange.

In this first episode we talk autonomous vehicles with Lars Klint and industry expert Jillian Kaplan. They take a look at how we can make smart cars safer, and whether speeding up reaction times and having them ‘talk’ to each other with 5G and edge computing might be the answer. You'll get to dive into the current state of autonomous vehicles, and then hear what our hands-free future might look like!

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• Connect with Jillian Kaplan on LinkedIn
• Connect with Lars Klint on LinkedIn

If you want to learn more about edge computing, try these:

• 5G and Edge Computing: Executive Briefing 
• Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC): Executive Briefing
• It's Time to Think Beyond Cloud Computing 

For more on Jillian, her story and AVs & automation, try these: 

• Saving lives on the road and on the factory floor with intelligent automation 
• Tiaras and Tech  
• Hand-Held Cellphone Ban For Drivers Passes, Headed To Governor's Des 

Can we stop accidents by getting smart cars to talk to each other? Can robot swarms help us fight fires and build skyscrapers? And what happens when AI doesn't need us anymore? Join Lars Klint in a new Pluralsight series as he questions industry experts about where our current and emerging technologies might just end up, and what that actually means for us humans...including the good, the bad and the strange.

Find it here!

https://www.pluralsight.com/resource-center/technically-possible

Veteran agile coach Kimbaly St. Matthew-Daniel breaks down how to help teams evolve from waterfall deployment to more agile methods, and how to have fun doing it. 

The open source space is consistently improving, with a growing number of initiatives and projects built in the open. Front-end developer and consultant Gift Egwuenu shares insights on the importance of open source as well as how you can get started as a contributor, including: 

• How to make your first open source contribution
• Ways to overcome awkwardness and conflict in the open source process
• Tips for finding and making meaningful contributions to the projects you love 
• And more!

Join Pluralsight author, Jeremy Morgan, as he discusses the steps to identifying and eliminating waste in software production with senior manager of software engineering at Jamf, Jan Trojanowski; development director at Electronic Arts (EA), Brian Pang and agile coach Kimbaly St. Matthew-Daniel.

Axel Robinson is the business solutions and implementation manager at T-Mobile. In this conversation, Axel highlights how operational excellence paves the way for delivering a world class customer experience, and how showing love for his team is key to his success. 

Join cloud strategist and Pluralsight author David Tucker for latest news, updates and resources you need to stay up to speed on in the fast-moving world of AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.

For all the resources mentioned in this episode, please check out the video descriptions in the links below:

GCP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0_7yf6b5wI&list=PLif6_xhXJh4TIL1r524qmORA9lb8wO18p&index=1

Azure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro2l-vFhX5U&list=PLif6_xhXJh4TIL1r524qmORA9lb8wO18p&index=2

AWS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWhqwGTjEo&list=PLif6_xhXJh4TIL1r524qmORA9lb8wO18p&index=3 

For today’s episode, we chatted with Kristen Foster-Marks—director of engineering for Flow at Pluralsight—about imposter syndrome, embracing failure as a new engineer, Kristen’s journey into tech, and her unique research into the academic field of second language acquisition and what it can teach us about learning how to code.

Kristen's article series on SLA and learning to code can be found here: https://www.pluralsight.com/blog/software-development/sla-learning-to-code-part-1 

Two members of Pluralsight security curriculum team discuss the implications of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, and what security leaders and companies can learn to protect themselves against similar attacks in the future.

Pluralsight courses and paths mentioned in this conversation:

Red Team Tools: https://app.pluralsight.com/paths/skill/red-team-tools 
Blue Team Tools: https://app.pluralsight.com/paths/skill/blue-team-tools
Security Event Triage: https://app.pluralsight.com/paths/skill/security-event-triage-skill 
Malware: Prevention, Detection, and Response: https://app.pluralsight.com/paths/skill/malware-prevention-detection-and-response 

Rodney Cox, VP of engineering at Via breaks down his rapid rise into software leadership, how he’s building his team, incremental growth and his approach of stretching beyond his comfort zones.