Andrew Brown joins Shala, Chris, and Damian for a re:Invent re:cap of their favorite announcements, tips on how to attend re:Invent, and more.

Resources:

https://genai.cloudprojectbootcamp.com/

https://www.exampro.co/

https://x.com/andrewbrown

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-wc-brown/

What better way to learn about Machine Learning than with an AWS Machine Learning Hero???

Join us as we talk with Cyril Bandolo about the best ways to learn about this exciting new field!

• 00:00 - Intro

Resources:

Twitter: @BandoloCyril

Bluesky: @cyrilbandolo

YouTube Channel: @datasciencewithcyril

Serverless ML Course: https://training.serverlessguru.com/courses/serverless-machine-learning

AWS Hero Linda Mohamed joins the vBrownBag to show us how she uses Amazon Q to scale community engagement (also a sneak peek for her AWS ReInvent 2024 session!)

• 00:00 Intros and chit-chat

Resources:

https://www.youtube.com/@mrs_lee_g

https://thejugglingcompany.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELvedTUcjPo&t=6s

https://registration.awsevents.com/flow/awsevents/reinvent24/public/page/catalog?search.sessiontypes=sessionType_breakoutSession&search=%22Linda%20Mohamed%22

Jeramiah Dooley joins the vBrownBag to discuss his experience at and insights from GitHub Universe 2024, and explores the transition from individual contributor to people manager. Great career tips inside!

• 00:53 Introducing Jeramiah Dooley

Resources:

https://gh.io/badger

https://gh.io/spark-signup

https://bsky.app/profile/jeramiah.net

Aaron Miller joins the vBrownBag to discuss the human side of DevOps, HumanOps, a recap of an AWS event in London, and his experience in the AWS New Voices program.

• 02:56 Introducing Aaron Miller

Resources:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/devops-guidance/the-devops-sagas.html

https://github.com/HumanOps/HumanOps

AWS Hero, CTO, & long time friend of the show Calvin stops in to help make developers lives easier! 🥰 In this episode he walks us through scaf a project he's created to build kubernetes based environments to enable django devs to (1) get up and running quickly (2) provide a similar environment across local, dev, and prod and much much more.

• 00:00 - Intro

Resources:

Calvin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/calvinhp/

scaf repo - https://github.com/sixfeetup/scaf

presentation - https://github.com/sixfeetup/2024_PyOhio_MasteringtheZenofDevExperience

Damien Burks joins the vBrownBag to demo a solution he architected & uses Terraform & GenAI to accelerate his content creation

• 01:10 Call to action! Who's hiring? Let us know and we'll promote 🚀

Resources:

https://x.com/damienjburks

https://www.devsecblueprint.com/

https://www.youtube.com/@damienjburks

JJ Asghar shares his thoughts on IBM TechXchange & InstructLab with Chris Williams

Resources:

https://x.com/jjasghar

Keith Townsend (Futurum Group & The CTO Advisor) shares his thoughts on IBM TechXchange with Chris Williams

Resources:

https://x.com/CTOAdvisor

Microsoft technologist Kevin Evans explores the general trend of technology maturation, certifications for aspiring cloud solutions architects, his thoughts on near-future changes for existing cloud solution architects, and more.

• 00:00 Welcome and a detour into homelabs

Resources:

https://x.com/TheKevinEvans

https://www.youtube.com/@Code-To-Cloud

https://codetocloud.io/