Scott Lowe talks with Yasmin Rajabi about her move from an engineering role to product management, including why she made the transition, the technical skills that translated to her new role, what new things she had to learn, and more.

Lyra is the latest infrastructure-as-code project to tackle the provisioning of cloud resources. On today's Full Stack Journey, guest and Lyra contributor Eric Sorenson explains how Lyra works, how it competes with and complements Terraform, and what it does differently from other open-source options.

Let's meet Bolt, an open-source automation/orchestration tool originally developed by Puppet. Today's Full Stack Journey dives into how the tool works, the problems it solves, how it's similar to and different from existing tools, and more. Our guest and guide to Bolt is Yasmin Rajabi.

Pulumi is a tool for building cloud-native infrastructure as code using general-purpose programming languages. Luke Hoban, CTO of Pulumi, joins Scott Lowe on the Full Stack Journey podcast to chat about the tool and how it differs from existing approaches to infrastructure as code.

Today's Full Stack Journey podcast dances with Ballerina, a cloud-native programming language introduced by WSO2. My guest is Anjana Fernando, who has been involved in Ballerina since its inception. We discuss use cases and compare Ballerina to languages such as Java and Golang.

Today's Full Stack Journey episode puts host Scott Lowe in the guest chair to share his own sojourns through the IT stacks.

Infrastructure as code treats your infrastructure like software objects. Terraform is a tool that applies this concept to automating the configuration of large-scale systems. On today's Full Stack Journey, guest Curt Micol shares his insights on the benefits of infrastructure as code and explores the notion of "defensive Terraform."

On today's Full Stack Journey podcast, guest Lindsay Hill discusses major transformations in the network industry, and how IT professionals can understand, adapt, and thrive amidst these changes.

Today's Full Stack Journey explores the evolution of networking technology and how it affects engineers. Guest Andrew Hrycaj discuss where the industry is going, personal skill development, getting team members on board with new networking technologies and learning requirements, and more.

In this month’s episode of the Full Stack Journey podcast, Brett Johnson joins Scott to revisit the topic of automation and how IT professionals can (and should!) embrace automation as a core part of their skill set.

You can follow Brett on Twitter, or visit his blog at https://sdbrett.com.

During this episode, Scott and Brett discuss:

* Challenges Brett encountered in embracing automation as a core part of his skill set (Hint: The challenges aren’t necessarily technical!)

* Helpful tools and resources

* The role of books in learning new technologies. Are they useless?

* Where  blogs fit into an IT professional’s “toolset” when it comes to learning new technologies

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