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vBrownBag — 90 episodes

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Title
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Unleashing AI On My Homelab

2

Responsible AI with Amazon Bedrock

3

AI Observability: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

4

Learning New Skills and Languages in the AI Era

5

Getting Started with Local AI (2/3)

6

AI (for Normal People) with AWS Hero Thorsten Hoger

7

Agentic AI: In The Real World

8

How to get to AWS re:Invent FOR FREE

9

How to get to AWS re:Invent FOR FREE

10

Trusted Publishing

11

Yelling at LLM Costs

12

The AI Dev Skills You Need to Future-Proof Your Career

13

Claude / Codex / Gemini / Open-model Gen AI from Zero with Andrew Brown

14

Survive & Thrive: Skills for Techs in 2026 with Stephen Sennett

15

Getting Started with Local AI

16

AI for Good

17

700,000 Learners Later: AWS Education Community and What's Changed

18

Uncovering the Hard Truth of Vendor Neutrality in OTEL

19

Troubleshooting AWS Hallucinations from Vector Store DBs

20

AI Agents Made Simple: Everything You Need to Know

21

This is Fine: Tech Employment in the AI Era

22

AI Governance for Virtualized Infrastructure: What vSphere Admins Need to Know

23

FinOps - What It Is & Why It Matters

24

Observability 2.0 - More Than Just Logs, Metrics & Traces

25

Teaching AI to Terraform (So We Don't Have To)

26

Evolution of Tool Use and MCP in Generative AI

27

2026 AWS Survey with Peter Sankauskas

28

Learn Infrastructure-as-Code [the FUN way] through Minecraft

29

How to Build AI Agents with Strands

30

KubeVirt for vSphere Admins with Eric Shanks

31

From Speech to Speech: A Tale about Amazon Nova Sonic

32

OpenStack Demystified: A Practical Guide for VMware Admins with Damian Karlson

33

Building FAST Channels with AWS MediaLive, MediaTailor, & MediaConvert

34

AWS Heroes On Kiro

35

DevOps Without the "Oh, ****!" Moments with Shala Warner

36

Hack Your Own Cloud: The Most Common Mistakes and How to Stop Them with Rajeev Joshi

37

Designing Tomorrow: Where AI Meets the Human Touch

38

Cloud Credibility: Marketing Yourself in the AWS ERA

39

Why Vibe Coding Isn't Enough

40

Cannibalism (as a Metaphor for Love) in Open Source

41

DevOps is a foreign language (or why there are no junior SREs) with Josh Lee

42

Applying Chaos Engineering to ML & Gen AI Workloads with Jenn Bergstrom

43

How to Vibe Code Responsibly (with a little help from MCPs)

44

Building an AWS Well-Architected Review Crew with GenAI featuring Alex Kearns

45

API-Driven Linux: Simplicity At Scale

46

From Ops to Dev: Understanding the Evolving Developer Landscape

47

Increasing Confidence in Your Software Supply Chain with Mike Fiedler

48

Experimenting with Foundation Models

49

Scared but Learning: A Survival Guide

50

How Freelancing Can Prepare You for the Modern Workforce

51

How To Learn Like A Rockstar!

52

Top 5 Azure Automation Mistakes to Avoid with Mark Tinderholt

53

Vibe Coding: Exploring the GenAI Coding Wave with Du'An Lightfoot

54

vJailbreak Automated Migration from ESXi to KVM with Robby Stahl

55

Leveraging Observability & AI in Software Development with Matthew Bonig

56

How To Prepare for the AWS AI/ML Certifications with Aaron Hunter

57

Private GenAI for the Enterprise with Kyler Middleton

58

Let's Talk About Impostor Syndrome with Ashley Lyon

59

The DevSec Blueprint

60

How to Build a BlueSky Bot with AWS Lambda and Terraform

61

AWS Survey 2025 with Peter Sankauskas

62

GitHub Actions: Tips, Tricks, and More

63

AWS re:Invent re:Cap with Andrew Brown

64

Serverless Machine Learning: 3 Paths to Success

65

Build Amazon Q Apps to Scale & Drive Community Engagement with Linda Mohamed

66

GitHub Universe & the Management Leap with Jeramiah Dooley

67

The Human Side of DevOps with Aaron Miller

68

Mastering the Zen of Dev Experience: Kubernetes & the Art of Simplicity

69

Scaling Content Creation using GenAI & Terraform with Damien Burks

70

Thoughts on IBM TechXchange 2024 and InstructLab with JJ Asghar

71

Thoughts on IBM TechXchange 2024 with Keith Townsend

72

What's next for Cloud Solution Architects with Kevin Evans

73

Exploring AWS AI/ML: Beyond the GenAI Hype Train with Vivek Raja

74

How To Future Proof Your Tech Job From GenAI with Andrew Brown

75

Deep Dive: PowerShell on AWS Lambda

76

Terraform: Stand up test environments freaky fast!

77

Deep Dive: Automating the vBrownBag with AWS Serverless

78

What's in the Bag? Automating the vBrownBag with AWS Serverless

79

HashiQube on CodeSpaces: HashiStack in minutes!

80

How to sort anything with Python!

81

IaC, AI, Programming Languages, & Orchestration!

82

InstructLab and Open Source AI

83

Mastering the Certification Game

84

Multi-Cloud Architectures: When & Why?

85

Enabling Inter-VPC & Inter-AWS Access w/ VPC Peering

86

It's Okay to Not Be Okay: Navigating a Tech Layoff with Compassion and Recovery Tips

87

Cyber Resiliency & Orchestrated DRaaS with Suresh Madhu

88

How to Level Up Your AWS Cloud Skills with Morgan Willis

89

A Builder's Guide: Getting Started with Generative AI with Du'An Lightfoot

90

Terraform 1.8: Provider Defined Functions with Bruno Schaatsbergen