Engineers & Coffee

Engineers & Coffee

By Donnie Flood, Larry OgrodnekTechnology
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Engineers & Coffee episodes

  • we became our worst nightmare
    • Google Speech and Language APIs

      • Google open beta of cloud speech API
      • Parsey McParseface
      • Andrew Ng Machine Learning course
      • Google Natural Language API
      • Amazon ML twitter example
      • AWS IoT Button

        • How I Hacked Amazon’s $5 WiFi Button to track Baby Data
        • Twilio sim cards
        • Drizzly dash button
        • 33 min
        • apparently i'm competing directly with google now
          • jukedeck
          • retrospective episode
            • give us feedback!
            • engineers and coffee in google play
            • Chicago AWS Summit
              • EBS cold storage / throughput
              • Managed platform update for Elastic Beanstalk
              • S3 transfer acceleration and larger snowball
                • Acceleration speed comparison tool
                • "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
                  • Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 4th ed., p. 91
                  • Kinesis updates
                  • Cognito User Pools
                    • Facebook Account Kit
                    • Device Farm Interactive Testing
                    • Octocast (Larry's podcast hosting project)
                      • deploying lambda from sbt
                      • Titanic: Machine Learning from Disaster | Kaggle
                      • Stanford Machine Learning Course
                      • 59 min
                      • podcast retrospective

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                        Our retrospective notes:

                        • What went well
                          • Consistent recording and publishing
                          • Content has improved
                          • Interview w/Peter
                          • Downloads in last 30 days - 3700
                          • Learned a lot about podcasting
                          • Forced to keep up on the news a bit more detailed
                          • What didn’t go well
                            • Interaction has dropped off
                            • Donnie’s “tick” - “totally”
                            • We didn’t build anything...
                            • We didn't Interview enough
                            • What to change?
                              • Try to bring conversation to us / community
                                • Come up with a plan
                                  • Chat room, live episode, twitter, e.g.
                                  • Collect emails on twitter?
                                  • Get better at interviewing
                                    • Have more interviews
                                    • research/read how to give good interviews
                                    • Build something
                                      • Follow up on chat/lambda, alexa
                                      • Take what we’re building and make it into episode content
                                      • Market ourselves
                                        • Reach out to more podcasters? Tweet at folks? Get more distribution
                                        • Push the episodes to more podcasting apps - Look into distribuiton on Android
                                        • Ask folks to review us on itunes
                                        • Shoutouts?
                                          • Peter Sankauskas
                                          • Cloudcast guys
                                          • Marc, Josh, Ryanne
                                          • Johnna and Melissa!
                                          • 38 min
                                          • I can talk to my lambda functions!?!?!
                                            • The inside story of how Amazon created Echo, the next billion-dollar business no one saw coming
                                            • Alexa Hardware
                                              • Echo - $179.99
                                              • Echo Dot - $89.99 (only available through Alexa)
                                              • Amazon Tap - $129, portable
                                              • Alexa Skills Kit (ASK)
                                                • Alexa Skills Quick Start
                                                • Sample Code
                                                  • alexa-skills-kit-js
                                                    • Score Keeper
                                                      • Declaring Intents
                                                      • Custom Slot Type
                                                      • alexa-skills-kit-java
                                                      • Standard Slot Types
                                                      • Alexa Fund
                                                      • Alexa Voice Service (AVS)
                                                        • Alexa on a Raspberry Pi
                                                        • hackster.io Alexa Skills contest
                                                        • 51 min
                                                        • it's nice to get out of our aws bubble a little bit
                                                          • We come to our senses, bite the bullet, and move to 1-based episode counting (you did not miss an episode)
                                                          • Google's Greene Hastens Cloud Expansion in Race With Amazon
                                                            • Google gets apple as a cloud customer
                                                            • Urs Hölzle, Google's 8th employee and tech guru, thinks the cloud could make more money than ads
                                                            • Google competing against AWS based on Machine Learning / Deep Learning Chops
                                                              • Google launched new machine learning platform
                                                              • Google Cloud Vision API
                                                              • Google Cloud Speech API
                                                              • Microsoft Cognitive Services
                                                              • Google Stackdriver
                                                              • The Cloudcast
                                                              • 40 min
                                                              • if enough people ask for it
                                                                • Peter Sankauskas
                                                                • Advanced AWS Meetup / SF
                                                                  • Immutable Deployments with AWS CloudFormation by Fabrizio Branca
                                                                  • Stackformation
                                                                  • Stack Overflow 2016 Developer Survey
                                                                  • ChatOps at Github
                                                                    • Hubot
                                                                    • CloudNative
                                                                      • Yeobot
                                                                      • kappa
                                                                      • cruddy
                                                                      • Botkit
                                                                      • Dropbox leaving AWS
                                                                        • The Epic Story of Dropbox's Exodus from the Amazon Cloud Empire
                                                                        • Scaling to exabytes and beyond
                                                                        • 57 min
                                                                        • more datacenters than engineers

                                                                          • 10 Years of AWS
                                                                            • Ten Years in the AWS Cloud by Jeff Barr
                                                                            • A Decade of Innovation by James Hamilton
                                                                            • 10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services by Werner Vogels
                                                                            • the story of hod ancient blog post talking about our old internal EMR-like workflow service
                                                                            • 47 min

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