The Byte - A Byte-sized podcast about Containers, Cloud, and Tech

The Byte - A Byte-sized podcast about Containers, Cloud, and Tech

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The Byte - A Byte-sized podcast about Containers, Cloud, and Tech episodes

  • An in depth look at Hashicorp Nomad
    Hashicorp Nomad has been around for a while but continues to grow and mature and gets closer to GA by the day. In this episode, I set up Nomad with Docker, deploy a demo application, and walk through all the functionality available.
    17 min
  • Leaning Away from Kubernetes
    In this episode, we look into why companies are looking for alternatives to Kubernetes and what these alternatives are. Interesting is that Kubernetes is super powerful but sometimes too complex thus alternatives are being deployed to address the complexity
    10 min
  • Loom - Say it with Video
    Loom is a new way to engage your customers, team, and community using video. The Loom application makes it easy to record a small headshot of your while recording your desktop or application. The engagement using video as a response in email is great and we are seeing huge rates of engagement so far.
    8 min
  • DockerCon 2020 Live Recap
    The DockerCon Live 2020 Virtual Conference broke down barriers and enabled the global community to attend and participate. From deep-dive sessions, interviews, live coding, and much more DockerCon Live was an amazing experience.
    11 min
  • Interview Chuck Gehman author AWS CloudFormation in Action
    A really interesting interview with our guest Chuck Gehman, author AWS CloudFormation in Action, serial blogger, and he's the "Tech Guy" in Marketing working as a Cloud Consultant for Perforce which builds an amazing version control system which is the defacto standard for the Video Game and Semiconductor industries.
    43 min
  • Grafana Version 7 Reviewed
    Grafana has released 7.0 which has great new features which make building dashboards even easier. The new UI and panels make it easier to navigate and being able to quickly create different visualizations using the same query reduce dashboard development time. Additionally, Grafana has more logic built-in when writing a single query now works across the different visualizations without having to adjust the query.
    11 min
  • Brave - A Fast Security Focused Browser
    Take back control of your web surfing with the new Brave Browser. The Brave Browser is extremely fast and secure by default with a built-in Ad/spyware blocker. Additionally, Brave has a Crypto reward system called BAT which you are rewarded for viewing Ad which adheres to privacy. You have the ability to withdrawal your BAT or use BAT to tip content creators.
    10 min
  • Turbo Charge your Command Line with Oh My Zsh!
    Reduce context switching is the model to improve your efficiency. One of the best tools which I use daily is the Command Line (CLI). I am always looking at tools/processes to improve my workflow. The one tool which has helped considerably is Oh My Zsh! an open-source, community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration allowing for a pluggable architecture for both plugins and themes.
    6 min
  • The GitHub COVID-19 Report about Developer Productivity
    GitHub released a Developer Productivity report called Octoverse which details how our work patterns have changed since the introduction of COVID and the lockdown. Some interesting statistics on the increase of work cadence, response time, and collaboration. However, some negative signals are also highlighted such as potential burnout if such cadence continues.
    10 min
  • Home Assistant - Open Source Home Automation
    Home Assistant is an Open Source home automation tool with privacy as the main goal. Home Assistant is a powerful home automation suite yet slim enough to run on a Raspberry Pi. With 1000+ integrations it's easy to get started automating almost all the devices in your home with little effort. In this episode, we look at how to install Home Assistant and get started integrating devices.
    14 min

About The Byte - A Byte-sized podcast about Containers, Cloud, and Tech

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A Byte-sized podcast about Containers, Cloud, and Tech. The Byte Podcast hosted by Brian Christner. He is known to turn coffee into containers, co-founder of 56K.Cloud, and can be caught mountain biking when not behind the microphone/keyboard. Each episode of The Byte is short and to the point podcasts twice a week about topics from Container, Cloud, to general Technology. Tune in every Tuesday and Thursday for the latest episodes