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vBrownBag
vBrownBag.com is a community of people who believe in helping other people. Specifically we work in IT infrastructure and we help other people in the IT industry to better their careers through education. Most frequent activity is producing the vBrownBag podcast. vBrownBag also attends global confer...
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Responsible AI with Amazon Bedrock
Join us as Faye Ellis breaks down what responsible AI actually looks like in practice on Amazon Bedrock - live demos included, straight from her prep...
AI Observability: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Join us as John Mark Troyer and Rakesh Gupta break down what AI observability actually means once agents leave the demo and hit production - and why t...
Learning New Skills and Languages in the AI Era
Join us as Bob Belderbos breaks down how to actually learn new skills and languages in a world where AI can write the code for you before you've even...
Getting Started with Local AI (2/3)
Join us as Du'An digs into the real mechanics of running AI locally and in production - from GPU memory math to multi-agent architectures, observabili...
AI (for Normal People) with AWS Hero Thorsten Hoger
Join us as Thorsten breaks down how everyday people - small business owners, retirees, hobbyists, and anyone who isn't a developer - can use AI to get...
Agentic AI: In The Real World
Join us as Dave walks through what it actually takes to build custom AI agents from scratch - not theory, but real projects he has shipped for his fam...
How to get to AWS re:Invent FOR FREE
Join us as Dale Orders (AWS Community Builder, four-time All Builders Welcome participant from Australia) walks through everything you need to know ab...
How to get to AWS re:Invent FOR FREE
Join us as Dale Orders (AWS Community Builder, four-time All Builders Welcome participant from Australia) walks through everything you need to know ab...
Trusted Publishing
Join us as Mike Fiedler (AWS Hero, PyPI Safety & Security Engineer, Python Software Foundation) makes the case for eliminating long-lived credentials...
Yelling at LLM Costs
AI subscriptions are becoming as essential as internet bills - and just as expensive. The vBrownBag gang takes a hard look at the real cost of LLMs an...
The AI Dev Skills You Need to Future-Proof Your Career
Join us as Brian Hough (CEO & Founder of Tech Stack Playbook, AWS Hero) gets brutally honest about the state of tech hiring and what skills developers...
Claude / Codex / Gemini / Open-model Gen AI from Zero with Andrew Brown
Andrew Brown (ExamPro) joins the vBrownBag crew to talk Gen AI skills, bootcamps, and whether vibe coding has made "learning to code" irrelevant. 🤖 S...
Survive & Thrive: Skills for Techs in 2026 with Stephen Sennett
AWS Hero Stephen Sennett joins the vBrownBag crew to argue that foundational knowledge matters more now, not less. 🧠 They dig into why communication...
Getting Started with Local AI
Join us for Part 1 of a 3-part series as Du'An Lightfoot (Senior AI Engineer at Akamai) breaks down everything you need to know to get started running...
AI for Good
Join us as Kira Intrator (MIT-trained urban planner, systems thinker, and social impact technologist based in Geneva) makes the case that AI for Good...
700,000 Learners Later: AWS Education Community and What's Changed
Join us as Hiroko Nishimura (AWS Hero, LinkedIn Learning Instructor, and author of AWS for Non-Engineers) reflects on seven years of teaching cloud to...
Uncovering the Hard Truth of Vendor Neutrality in OTEL
Join us as Josh and Adriana call BS on the oversimplified vendor neutrality narrative - because switching observability vendors isn't magic, even with...
Troubleshooting AWS Hallucinations from Vector Store DBs
Join us as Amelia shares the debugging story nobody tells you about - how her vector store DB couldn't surface specific data until she tested it with...
AI Agents Made Simple: Everything You Need to Know
Join us as Du'An breaks down AI agents in a way that actually makes sense - what they are, how to use them, and how to get started today.
Du'An...
This is Fine: Tech Employment in the AI Era
Join us as Chris gets brutally honest about tech employment in the AI era: what's dying, what's thriving, and how to position yourself to survive the...
AI Governance for Virtualized Infrastructure: What vSphere Admins Need to Know
Join us as Marian explains what AI governance means for vSphere administrators and why it matters now.
Marian walks through practical governance...
FinOps - What It Is & Why It Matters
Join us as Peter explores the core principles and practices of FinOps that help organizations optimize cloud spend without slowing innovation.
P...
Observability 2.0 - More Than Just Logs, Metrics & Traces
Join us as Neel explores how observability is evolving beyond traditional logs, metrics, and traces into a predictive, AI-powered discipline.
Ne...
Teaching AI to Terraform (So We Don't Have To)
Join us as Sam demonstrates how to teach AI to write Terraform configurations using Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.
Sam introduces the Ter...
Evolution of Tool Use and MCP in Generative AI
Join us as Gautam breaks down the evolution of tool use in generative AI and dives deep into MCP.
Gautam walks through the progression from simp...
2026 AWS Survey with Peter Sankauskas
Join the vBrownBag crew and AWS Hero Peter Sankauskas for the 2026 AWS Community Survey 🎯 – your chance to shape the conversation around AWS careers,...
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Learn Infrastructure-as-Code [the FUN way] through Minecraft
Join us for the final episode of 2025 as Mark Tinderholt (Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft Azure, HashiCorp Ambassador, and author of "Masteri...
How to Build AI Agents with Strands
Join Du'An Lightfoot, AI Developer at AWS, as he dives deep into building AI agents with the strands framework. In this technical walkthrough, Du'An d...
KubeVirt for vSphere Admins with Eric Shanks
Dive into KubeVirt with the vBrownBag crew and guest Eric Shanks! 🎤 Discover how vSphere admins can bridge their virtualization skills into Kubernete...
From Speech to Speech: A Tale about Amazon Nova Sonic
In this week’s vBrownBag, Principal Software Engineer Dominik Wosiński takes us on a deep dive into Amazon Nova Sonic — AWS’s latest speech-to-speech...
OpenStack Demystified: A Practical Guide for VMware Admins with Damian Karlson
Join the vBrownBag crew for an insightful session with guest (and host!) Damian Karlson as he breaks down OpenStack for VMware administrators. From Br...
Building FAST Channels with AWS MediaLive, MediaTailor, & MediaConvert
Luis is an AWS Community Builder, CTO, and game developer! In this session, you'll learn how to build a live FAST (Free Ad-Supported TV) channel using...
AWS Heroes On Kiro
Join an epic panel of AWS Heroes as they dive into their experiences with Kiro, the AI-powered IDE shaking up development workflows. From spec-driven...
DevOps Without the "Oh, ****!" Moments with Shala Warner
Ready to conquer DevOps fearlessly? Watch as Shala Werner walks through “DevOps Without the Oh, ****!” moments—sharing real-world stories, and her cre...
Hack Your Own Cloud: The Most Common Mistakes and How to Stop Them with Rajeev Joshi
Unlock essential cloud security lessons with Rajeev Joshi and the vBrownBag team as they explore the most common AWS mistakes: misconfigured S3 bucket...
Designing Tomorrow: Where AI Meets the Human Touch
Snigdha Joshi is a UI/UX Designer: In this session, we unravel how artificial intelligence is redefining the future of creative technology from intuit...
Cloud Credibility: Marketing Yourself in the AWS ERA
Janvi Bhagchandani is an AWS Community Builder and an AWS Cloud Captian! In this episode she talks about personal branding and self-marketing within t...
Why Vibe Coding Isn't Enough
In this episode we talk to AWS Hero Brian Hough: Vibe Coding with GenAI is fast and fun — until your app has to actually work in production. That’s wh...
Cannibalism (as a Metaphor for Love) in Open Source
In this episode we talk to Kat Cosgrove, Head of Developer Advocacy at Minimus! We get into a bunch of topics: Horror movies, cannibalism, contributin...
DevOps is a foreign language (or why there are no junior SREs) with Josh Lee
Join Josh Lee and the vBrownBag crew for a lively conversation about why DevOps feels like learning a new language, and the real reasons why there are...