Jillian Rowe specializes in setting up AWS clusters for collecting and analyzing bioinformatics data. She’s worked with several companies to set up “virtual labs” where they can use Data Science techniques and Machine Learning to analyze and understand the data they collect from their studies. This episode walks through a lot of the approach she…

Will and Jeffrey discuss the things that DevOps Engineers need to know. If you’re diving into DevOps, you’re probably wondering what skills do you need to know? Also, how much of the skill you need to have is technical versus non-technical. People skills and soft skills verus hard typing and at-the-keyboard skills. If you’re in…

Yann Stoneman joins the adventure to talk about the tools and approach he uses to cut AWS costs for his customers. The panel chimes in with how they track costs on AWS as well and what they do when they realize costs are creeping up. They then dive into Yann’s story going from Juilliard to…

Chuck dives into the 3 essentials for getting the next successful outcome you want in your career. Whether that’s something simple like a raise or something more complex like going freelance, you can achieve it by working on 3 main areas. First, building skills. The most obvious type of skills you’ll need is technical skills….

Will Button returns to discuss the roots and meanings of the DevOps movement with Caleb, Chuck, and Jeffrey. They take on the idea that DevOps is the infrastructure department and dissect the ideas pulled from the Agile and other movements that fed ideas into the DevOps movement. They also go over leadership and other requirements…

Chuck explains what he taught Nathan last week when we asked how to get hired at a FANG (Facebook Apple/Amazon Netflix Google) company. Essentially, it boils down to how to build the skills and knowledge needed to pass the interview. How to build the relationships to get into the door and have the interviewer want…

Matthew Helmke is a Senior Technical Content Developer at Grafana Labs. He helps companies and people track metrics and alerts around their data to understand what is going on in the systems and information that they manage. He walks Caleb and Jeffrey through the process of understanding systems and data to draw a picture that…

Andrei Kvapil joins the adventure to discuss Kubernetes with Jeffrey Groman. Andrei breaks down how he and his company needed to set up Kubernetes to manage their blade server setup and how they wound up running Kubernetes in Kubernetes to gain the characteristics they needed. Panel Jeffrey Groman Guest Andrei Kvapil Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator…

When Perl.com went down, its owner and others had no idea that the domain had been stolen months earlier and later resold. Brian D. Foy stepped in to run down leads and contact people on behalf of the folks who owned the website to find out what happened. He walks us through the process of…

Chuck was on a strategic call with one of his potential coaching clients talking about cryptocurrencies and realized that this is one of the major reasons that people want to become influencers. Or, rather, that many people aspire to make a difference and/or make money and the best way to do that is to become…

In a lot of ways, DevOps folks are essentially Developers. They encode infrastructure and processes often using code. This episode with Will Button dives into how Developers can jump into DevOps by learning the ropes of what they’re coding against and the problem sets solved by DevOps. This show also goes into how to communicate…

Charles talks about the things that get developers stuck when they’re trying to start their podcast or other influencer channel. He explains how to get around having those things hamper your journey. Panel Charles Max Wood