BrownBags are a series of online webinars held using GotoMeeting and covering various datacenter & datacenter Certification topics. These BrownBags are held live at various dates and times around the globe and each covers a different bit of datacenter related specialization.
Damien Burks is the Founder of the DevSec Blueprint: "a comprehensive, free, and open-source learning guide designed to equip you with the essential skills and knowledge needed to transition into DevSecOps or grow within your DevSecOps career."! In this episode he walks us through the blueprint, his inspiration for creating it, and how to get started!
How to find Damien:
Website: https://www.devsecblueprint.com/
Twitter: @damienjburks
Bluesky: @damienjburks.bsky.social
GitHub: https://github.com/damienjburks
AWS Community Builder and Software/Platform Engineer Ervin Szilágyi joins us today to talk about his project: creating a BlueSky Bot (for good, not evil 😂). Join us as he walks through the build process, his architectural decision making, and some lessons he learned along the way!
How to find Ervin:
Website: https://ervinszilagyi.dev/
Bluesky: @ervinszilagyi.dev
GitHub: https://github.com/Ernyoke
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/szilagyiervin/
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Every year AWS Hero Peter Sankauskas creates the AWS Survey. In it we can see trends for the various services: what's hot, what's not 🤣 Join us for the 2025 AWS Survey where we review findings from years past and make some predictions about what we'll see in 2025! P.S. Do the survey!!! https://answersforaws.com/survey/
How to find Peter:
Bluesky: @pas256.bsky.social
GitHub: https://github.com/pas256
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petersankauskas/
Show Resources:
Website: https://answersforaws.com/survey/
Welcome to the New Year and the first episode of the year: We are excited to be talking with Developer Advocate Jessican Deen about GitHub Actions and how you can use them to automate your workflows!
How to find Jessica:
Twitter: @jldeen
Bluesky: @jldeen.dev
Website: jessicadeen.com
GitHub: github.com/jldeen
Show Resources:
Keylight CLI: github.com/jldeen/keylight-cli
Excalidraw: https://excalidraw.com/
Learn GitHub Actions: https://github.com/features/actions
Actions Marketplace: https://github.com/marketplace?type=actions
GitHub Actions Docs: https://docs.github.com/en/actions
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.
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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!
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!)
Resources:
https://www.youtube.com/@mrs_lee_g
https://thejugglingcompany.com/
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!
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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.
Resources:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/devops-guidance/the-devops-sagas.html
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.
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
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