DevCast

Dev Technology moved to 100% remote work on March 16, with many teams starting prior to that date. Adam and John meet to talk about how teams are adjusting, what has been working, and what they wish we had done differently.

Topics discussed include

• Life in general right now, society’s reaction, and supporting local businesses
• How Adam and John are adjusting to working from home with the entire family
• Remote work etiquette and why you should turn your camera on
• Productivity tools that have been working well for us
• How remote work brings out existing issues--it doesn’t create them
• Maintaining engagement and the absence of collisionable communication and thinking about ways to add it back in
• What we wished we did months ago

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Zach Lawrence, Dev Technology Senior IT System Administrator, joins Adam D’Angelo to talk about a preparing for the AWS Solution Architect Associate Exam as well as some of the unique considerations for development in the cloud environment. Zach and Adam discuss the following.

• AWS Solution Architect exam prep tips including the importance of understanding the vocabulary, using practice tests to prepare, and the importance of practicing with VPCs
• The importance of understanding the formal features of AWS for making tradeoff decisions
• How architecting in the cloud changes the way you think about developing a solution—the underlying infrastructure is essential to leveraging the benefits of the cloud
• Using different locations for latency tradeoffs
• The importance of hands on learning
• Selecting cloud native vs cloud agnostic functionality
• Security on-prem vs the cloud
• Avoiding vendor lock-in

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John Janek and Adam D’Angelo talk with Kurt Lloyd, Dev Technology Principal Engineer, to talk about the intersection of Black History and technology.

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Adam D’Angelo and Niroop Gonchikar get together to talk about the technology that drives face recognition, fingerprint readers, and more. Biometrics is enabling our digital lives in incredible ways, and there’s an important need to not only look at the technology, but its application and the framework around its use. 

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Join John Janek and Adam D’Angelo as they welcome special guest Becky Crane to talk about Agile in Government. With years of experience delivering mission critical products to government, Becky shares her observations, thoughts, and insights. Learn about what agile means in govtech on this week’s DevCast.

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2019 was a pretty phenomenal year for cloud in government. Join John Janek and Adam D’Angelo as they dive into a discussion about AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and what happens to mid-tier providers in a govtech world that is heavily burdened with regulation and compliance. We might even talk about JEDI – but we promise no Sith!

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Join John Janek and Adam D’Angelo as they dive into digital procurement on this episode of DevCast. What is a Reverse Industry Day? What is a Digital IT Acquisition Professional? What in the world is co-designed procurement? Get those questions answered and hear what they might mean for the govtech community.

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Adam D’Angelo and Yemi Oshinnaiye dive into a variety of information technology topics. They discuss the following and more.

• How culture affects IT innovation
• What does professional discipline mean for the IT field
• Regulation of information technology
• Security and privacy

Referenced in this episode:

"Taming Information Technology: Lessons from Studies of System Administrators (Human Technology Interaction Series)" https://www.amazon.com/Taming-Information-Technology-Administrators-Interaction/dp/0195374126

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Adam D’Angelo and Yemi Oshinnaiye sample bourbon as they wish Yemi luck in his new position at USCIS and discuss Amazon, Facebook, what happens with your data online, the difference between bourbon and rye, what if everyone knew everything about everyone, are Siri and Alexa spying on you, and are we cyborgs?

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Computer programing was largely considered “women’s work” when the first programable digital computer was being developed in the 1940s. Today, less than 17% of students graduating in computer science and information technology are women. Why is this? What can we do about it? And why is it important?

Michelle Scheuerman, Dev Technology Vice President, and Becky Crane, Dev Technology Program Manager talk about the history and future of women in IT, some of their personal experiences, and how we can help encourage women in IT.

This episode was inspired by the New York Times article “The Secret History of Women in Coding.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/magazine/women-coding-computer-programming.html

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