Full Stack Journey - Packet Pushers

Firecracker is an open-source project, launched by AWS, for serverless computing. On today's Full Stack Journey podcast, Michael Hausenblas of AWS joins host Scott Lowe to talk about Firecracker, how it works, its adoption, and more. They also touch on EKS, Fargate, and Lambda.

David Klee is a SQL database expert, but he's also knowledgeable about virtualization, networking, and infrastructure. In today's Full Stack Journey podcast, host Scott Lowe talks with David about how and why IT specialists should be competent in other disciplines, how to decide which areas to branch out into, and how adjacent competencies enrich can enrich your specialization.

Today's Full Stack Journey examines the Talos open source project, which is aimed at building a fit-for-purpose OS designed expressly for running Kubernetes. My guests are Tim Gerla and Andrew Rynhard of Talos Systems. We discuss the goals of this project, the problems they aim to solve, and more.

A panel of guests share tips, tools, and best practices for working from home in the latest episode of Full Stack Journey. Host Scott Lowe speaks to Puja Abbassi, Lisa Caywood, Simon Crosby, and John Teresick about the challenges and rewards of daily life in the home office.

Today's Full Stack Journey episode features Lauren Malhoit. Lauren came up in the tech industry as a systems engineer. She's now in technical product marking at Juniper Networks. Lauren and Scott talk about career transitions, leadership vs. management, and "finding a gap where you can be an expert."

Today's Full Stack Journey episode explores Contour, an an Envoy-based Kubernetes Ingress controller. My guest is Steve Sloka. In addition to Contour, we also talk about Steve's journey into Docker, containers, and Kubernetes as a developer, and their impact on his career.

Open source software has had a significant influence on the tech career of today's Full Stack Journey podcast guest, Matt Broberg. We discuss why open source has been so influential, the importance of community in IT, and topics such as how to stay technical when your role changes, and why business fundamentals should matter to technologists.

Today's Full Stack Journey goes back to the beginning with an IT pro just getting started in her career. Kori Younger is a recent college graduate planning on a career in IT. She and Scott talk about how she's prepared for this career, college vs. certifications, the role of dinner-table conversations and their influence on career choice, diversity and inclusion, and more.

Today's episode of Full Stack Journey focuses on the benefits of testing and validation for Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC). We discuss types of testing, available tools, and why IaC has value even for smaller shops. My guest is Gareth Rushgrove.

If you've ever thought about working for yourself, catch this episode of the Full Stack Journey. Guest Ned Bellavance discusses his decision to leave a job as an IT consultant to become an independent content creator of tech training material. Ned shares real-world insights into his experience along with practical takeaways.