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/

In this episode of the vBrownBag, a host is a guest! Damian does a deep dive into the vBrownBag Meatgrinder, an event-driven automation solution built with AWS Serverless that powers the show behind the scenes. Meatgrinder uses AWS S3, Event Bridge, Step Functions, Lambda, and Cloud Watch and handles post-production automation of vBrownBag content. We'll talk about the design decisions made while architecting the solution, and lessons learned along the way.

• 00:00 Intro and so much banter!

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/

Riaan Nolan is a HashiCorp Ambassador that has developed Hashiqube, a DevOps development lab that runs all HashiCorp products. Hashiqube has a Docker daemon inside meaning we can run containers inside Hashiqube using Kubernetes (Minikube) or Nomad or Docker run. It runs all Hashicorp products: Vault, Terraform, Nomad, Consul, Waypoint, Boundary, Vagrant, Packer and Sentinel.

It also runs a host of other popular Open Source DevOps/DevSecOps applications (Minikube, Ansible AWX Tower, Traefik etc.) showcasing how simple integration with Hashicorp products can result in tangible learnings and benefits for all its users.

In this episode, we'll explore HashiQube on GitHub CodeSpaces.

• 00:00 Introductions

Resources:

https://hashiqube.com/

https://riaannolan.com/

https://github.com/star3am

https://github.com/star3am/hashiqube

Reuven Lerner has been using Python for 30 years and teaching it for over 20. Join us as we talk about "How to sort anything with Python". This is sure to be a fun & interesting show as we learn more about Python with Reuven.

• 00:00 - Intro

Resources:

https://x.com/reuvenmlerner

https://lernerpython.com

https://www.bambooweekly.com

https://practiceyourpython.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THv-m8niDho (All about decorators)

Sr. Software Engineer Kat Morgan has been in the IaC and software space for a long time and she has opinions! Join us as we talk about the shifting landscape of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), AI, Programming Languages (cough cough Python) and how Orchestration is changing!

• 00:00 - Intro

Resources:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/usrbinkat/

https://github.com/usrbinkat

https://x.com/usrbinkat