DevOps Accents

DevOps Accents

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  • #49: 10x Engineers and Where to Find Them with Elin Brusberg from Vitec Megler

    How to build your team? How to manage engineers and developers? Can you hire one magical being that can do it all and forget all about it? (Spoiler: No, no you can’t). In episode 49 of DevOps Accents Leo and Pablo talk to Elin Brusberg, Head of Development at Vitec Megler. In this episode:


    • 10x developer — what is that?
    • Building a functioning team vs. relying on that one guy;
    • How to keep your engineers and developers engaged and invested?
    • Comfort vs. Challenge: how people are different sometimes;
    • Developer and business manager, how to build this relationship?
    • How to choose your hiring priorities? 


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      Show Notes:

      • Our guest, Elin Brusberg, on LinkedIn.
      • Vitec Megler is a leading provider of standard software for the real estate business in Norway, making sure they have everything they need to thrive and work efficiently. They are part of the Vitec group, who deliver business critical software for a large variety of niches in Europe.


        • Podcast editing: Mila Jones, [email protected]

        53 min
      • #48: Very Different Clouds and Aerospace Engineering with Ignacio Echavarría from Dovetail Electric Aviation

        What do people misunderstand about aerospace engineers? What future do electric engines bring to aircrafts? How does QA work in aviation? Today we take a break from our usual DevOps and Cloud talk to have a conversation with Ignacio Echavarría, an aerospace engineer and CTO at Dovetail Electric Aviation.


        • How to become an aerospace engineer?
        • The carbon footprint issue and the problem of scale;
        • Quality assurance and rules of maintenance in aerospace engineering;
        • Can aircrafts go fully electric one day?
        • What can aviation look like in the future?


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          Our guest, Ignacio Echavarría.


          Podcast editing: Mila Jones, [email protected]

          1 hr 1 min
        • #47: The Art of Tech Blogging with Ivan Velichko from Iximiuz Labs

          Our guest for this episode of DevOps Accents has taken tech blogging to a whole new level. You may know him as Iximiuz or Ivan Velichko. We discuss how tech blogging was born, how insightful content is created and consumed by tens of thousands of subscribers, and how a hobby becomes a career. We also discuss his Iximiuz Labs, an indie online platform for learning Linux, containers, and Kubernetes that offers interactive online playgrounds, hands-on tutorials, and fun DevOps challenges.


          In this episode:

          • Teaching and learning through blogging;
          • How topics for a tech blog are chosen;
          • Understanding your audience;
          • Monetizing a tech blog;
          • How Ivan's famous diagrams are created;
          • What makes Iximius Labs a comprehensive learning platform.


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            Show Notes:

            • Ivan’s personal tech blog with all the must read articles on cloud tech.
            • Iximiuz Labs, an interactive educational platform with courses, challenges and playgrounds on Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Networking, and Security.
            • Our guest, Ivan Velichko, on X and on Linkedin.


              • Podcast editing: Mila Jones, https://www.instagram.com/mila.jones.production   / [email protected]

              56 min
            • #46: Can GenAI really be useful?

              In this episode, we dive deep into generative AI with Álvaro Sáez , creator of an AI tool Current Anima that transforms text prompts into 3D scenes. Álvaro explains how his technology works and what skills you need to have to build something like this and how difficult it is to build an AI startup in 2024.

              • Alvaro's AI tool that generates 3D scenes from text prompts.
              • The role of Unreal Engine in creating high-quality animations.
              • The oversaturation of the AI market with fake solutions.
              • Competing with AI giants like OpenAI.
              • AI as a tool for enhancing, not replacing, creativity.

                • #GenAI #generativeai #cloud #devops #unrealengine #podcast #mkdev #aimarket #aitools #entrepreneur #startup

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                Show Notes:

                Our guest, Álvaro Sáez

                His company HechicerIA
                Few example of Current Anima's outputs:
                - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IApac2mFmNw
                - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuKuzQlrgBs
                Podcast editing: ⁠Mila Jones⁠, [email protected]

                50 min
              • #45: State of the Cloud Report, Cloud Waste, FinOps and Multi-Cloud

                Cloud Cost Management has kind of taken over as the top concern for organizations. Pablo, Leo and Kirill come together to analyze the numbers from the Flexera State of the Cloud Report in episode 45 of DevOps Accents.


                • 27% of Cloud waste, is that a lot?
                • What is FinOps and what is its role?
                • What are the reasons for the overspent increase?
                • Are multi-cloud organizations on the rise?
                • Disaster recovery.


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                  Show Notes:

                  2024 State of the Cloud Report


                  Podcast editing: Mila Jones, [email protected]

                  46 min
                • #44: The Importance of DevOps Community with Johannes Koch from FICO

                  Can the community influence the evolution of cloud technologies? What is its impact on personal and professional growth? Do we underestimate the value of networking and knowledge sharing? Johannes Koch, Senior Engineer at FICO and AWS DevTools Hero, joins Pablo, Leo and Kirill for this episode of DevOps Accents.


                  • AWS Heroes Program;
                  • Community work vs. Corporate work;
                  • The role of the community for juniors and for seniors;
                  • What is the relationship between big tech companies and influential seniors?
                  • Custom blueprints in CodeCatalyst;
                  • Avoiding GenAI hype.


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                    Show Notes

                    Our guest, Johannes Koch.

                    Things we’ve talked about:


                    • Projen
                    • CodeCatalyst Blueprints
                    • AWS Project Development Kit
                    • Deployment Pipeline Reference Architecture
                    • The state of CodeCatalyst in July 2024


                      • Podcast editing: Mila Jones, [email protected]

                      59 min
                    • #43: What Drives Job Satisfaction with Fabiano Beselga from ada

                      Our guest this week is Fabiano Beselga, Head of Technology at ada, music composer and YouTuber. He joins Leo, Pablo and Kirill for a discussion of his career path, work-life balance and product discovery.


                      • Fabiano’s path in platform engineering and in music;
                      • How to balance your work with your hobby and side-projects?
                      • Work-life balance around the world: Brazil vs. Germany vs. Spain;
                      • Creating tools for your side-projects;
                      • Continuous Discovery Habits;
                      • How to stay motivated and focused?


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                        Show Notes:

                        Connect with Fabiano on LinkedIn

                        And in the company he currently works for.

                        Explore Fabiano's work and music: 

                        • Instagram
                        • YouTube
                        • Spotify

                          • Check out his personal project that we were discussing, a tool to save and share presets for your music gear, Tonic Codes: https://www.tonic.codes


                          Podcast editing: Mila Jones / [email protected]

                          54 min
                        • #42: What a Developer Advocate Does with Ara Pulido from Datadog

                          Tune in for a conversation with Ara Pulido, Staff Developer Advocate at Datadog, and join Leo and Pablo for an exploration of what this job is and why it can be so essential for your company in episode 42 of DevOps Accents.

                          • Who is a Developer Advocate?
                          • What do they advocate for and why it’s not just marketing?
                          • How does successful developer advocacy program look like?
                          • How developer advocates influence product development through community feedback?
                          • How to understand that you need a developer advocate in your company?
                          • Is being a woman in tech more difficult?

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                            Show Notes:

                            • Connect with Ara Pulido on Linkedin.
                            • Connect with Ara on CNCF Slack.
                            • Check out an example of what Developer Advocates do at Datadog.
                            • Datadog is a cloud-based monitoring and analytics platform that provides real-time insights into complex IT environments, helping organizations monitor infrastructure, applications, logs, and other data sources in a unified manner.


                              • Podcast editing: Mila Jones, [email protected]

                              58 min
                            • #41: 10 Years of Kubernetes

                              Celebrate 10 years of Kubernetes with Pablo, Kirill and Leo and join us for a discussion of its history, impact and possible future.

                              • What was it like to experience the rise of Kubernetes?
                              • A big break for cloud and infra technologies 10 years ago;
                              • Where will Kubernetes be in another 10 years?
                              • Alternatives to Kubernetes;
                              • How big is the impact of Kubernetes for the industry?
                              • Kuberenetes issues;
                              • AI hype bubble.

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                                Podcast editing: Mila Jones, [email protected]

                                51 min
                              • #40: Cloud Gaming and Google Stadia with David Wynn from Edge Delta

                                Let’s talk about cloud gaming possibilities of today and remember Google Stadia. Our guest this time is David Wynn, Principal Solution Architect from Edge Delta. Join him, Leo and Pablo for a discussion of the problems cloud gaming faces now and the possible future for this experience.


                                • The transformation of the game industry to the cloud, did it work?
                                • What went wrong with Google Stadia?
                                • Cloud gaming: Technical challenges vs. Marketing challenges;
                                • Console gaming vs. PC gaming vs. Cloud gaming;
                                • Why isn’t cloud gaming taking over?
                                • What will the gaming hardware landscape look like in 10 years?


                                  • Our guest, David Wynn.


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                                  Podcast editing: Mila Jones, [email protected]

                                  58 min

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                                'DevOps Accents', a bi-weekly mkdev podcast on everything around DevOps, Public Cloud and Cloud Native topics, with your hosts Pablo, Leo and Kirill.