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/

AWS Hero Vivek Raja goes beyond the GenAI hype and explores AWS AI/ML offerings, AI ethics, and more.

• 04:05 Introducing Vivek 👋

Resources:

https://x.com/meetvivekraja

https://kaggle.com

Related videos:

https://youtu.be/eiEZ24-ztHY

https://youtu.be/o7u25U1swIs

Andrew Brown presents a roadmap for understanding generative AI that covers the learning journey from getting started with GenAI, to prompt engineering, learning through use cases, and more.

• 04:25 Starting the GenAI journey 🧑‍💻

Resources:

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

https://www.exampro.co/

https://x.com/andrewbrown

https://github.com/omenking

Related videos:

https://youtu.be/zyphIEt55lE

https://youtu.be/zG2outSenlg

In this episode of the vBrownBag, Damian does a deep dive on getting started with PowerShell on AWS Lambda. He covers setting up a development environment, packaging & publishing PowerShell on Lambda, lessons learned, and more!

• 00:28 A quick overview of PowerShell & AWS Lambda 💪

Resources:

https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/AWSLambdaPSCore

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/8.0

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/installing-powershell?view=powershell-7.4

https://code.visualstudio.com/download

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell

In this episode of the vBrownBag, Shala demonstrates how & why she uses Hashicorp Terraform (for her day job!) to stand up proof of concept tests on AWS far faster than what is possible in the console.

• 00:00 Intro

1:37 Shala walks us through her GitLab repo 💪

5:23 We're discussing DevOps, y'all

• 10:52 Shala explains why she started using Terraform for proof of concept testing

Resources:

https://registry.terraform.io/

In this episode of the vBrownBag, Damian does a deeper dive into the Meatgrinder, showing how the different AWS services interact, how the process logs to CloudWatch, and more!

• 00:00 Intro

1:20 The AWS Services that power the Meatgrinder 💪

1:51 AWS S3

2:18 AWS EventBridge

2:50 AWS Step Functions

4:10 PowerShell on Lambda & Step Functions interaction 🕺💃

7:05 Python Lamba function

7:33 Logging success in AWS CloudWatch 🚀

Resources:

https://vbrownbag.com

https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/

https://damiankarlson.com/2024/04/21/whats-in-the-bag-behind-the-scenes-at-vbrownbag-com/