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
• 08:20 - What is serverless?
• 16:00 - What is Machine Learning?
• 18:38 - ML vs GenAI vs DL
• 31:35 - Path #1!
• 33:34 - Path #2!
• 38:06 - Path #3!

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
• 09:05 Linda is a juggler, and Damian is fascinated by juggling math 🤣
• 12:30 Building an AI application with Amazon Q, and the learning curve of building an AI app
• 16:30 Introducing the AWS Community Helper app
• 16:45 AI process 😊 vs manual process 😤
• 19:00 High-level app workflow
• 29:45 Architecture diagram of identifying dates
• 39:04 Linda's AI voice clone & AI video avatar
• 45:40 Demo of Linda's AI video avatar

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
• 07:11 Experiencing GitHub Universe 2024
• 22:06 Interesting announcements @ GitHub Universe 2024
• 39:30 Jeramiah's journey from IC to manager
• 43:00 The hardest moment in Jeramiah's career
• 58:57 Jeramiah's thoughts on the ideal manager communication style

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
• 11:42 Aaron's quest to understand DevOps
• 13:00 What DevOps is all about
• 23:12 People, tools, and processes
• 36:10 What is HumanOps?
• 37:30 The five HumanOps principles
• 38:25 Recap of AWS London re:Inforce re:Cap

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
• 04:15 - Six Feet Up???
• 07:55 - Why we started building this
• 17:17 - Why Kubernetes? ☸️
• 38:00 - Live Demo 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤣

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 🚀
• 04:50 Introducing Damien Burks
• 08:05 Level set: What is Terraform and what's it used for?
• 11:55 Problem statement & Damien's solution, the Personal Blogging Assistant
• 26:00 Let's dive into the code! 🏊
• 32:30 Deploying the Personal Blogging Assistant & demo
• 38:40 Using the GCP console

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
• 05:33 Kevin's role at Microsoft and technology maturation
• 10:48 Damian's wife sets off the smoke alarms 🤣(sorry!)
• 14:10 What's next for cloud solution architects?
• 32:15 Certifications for aspiring cloud solution architects
• 46:30 Kevin's advice for existing cloud solution architects

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 👋
• 11:54 Exploring the technology hype cycle
• 20:50 Considering computer vision, as an example of the hype cycle
• 25:06 Where is Gen AI in the hype cycle?
• 29:50 AWS & GenAI
• 32:29 Rediscovering AWS AI/ML services 🔍
• 55:44 AWS Sagemaker Studio demo
• 72:20 Navigating risks & ethical considerations with AI 🤔

Resources:

https://x.com/meetvivekraja

https://kaggle.com

Related videos:

https://youtu.be/eiEZ24-ztHY

https://youtu.be/o7u25U1swIs