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Andrew Brown presents a roadmap for understanding generative AI that covers the learning journey from getting started with GenAI, to prompt engineering, learning through use cases, and more. 04:25 Starting the GenAI journey 🧑‍💻 08:15 Prompt engineering 10:00 Workbenches & playgrounds 14:50 Types of LLM models 35:00 Approaching AI learning with a use case 📋 42:44 Models as a service 47:45 LLM de...

In this episode of the vBrownBag, Damian does a deep dive on getting started with PowerShell on AWS Lambda. He covers setting up a development environment, packaging & publishing PowerShell on Lambda, lessons learned, and more! 00:28 A quick overview of PowerShell & AWS Lambda 💪 01:07 Anatomy of a PowerShell Lambda function 01:35 Setting up a development environment 03:00 AWSLambdaPSCore modules...

In this episode of the vBrownBag, Shala demonstrates how & why she uses Hashicorp Terraform (for her day job!) to stand up proof of concept tests on AWS far faster than what is possible in the console. 00:00 Intro 1:37 Shala walks us through her GitLab repo 💪 5:23 We're discussing DevOps, y'all 10:52 Shala explains why she started using Terraform for proof of concept testing 13:00 Using Terraform...

In this episode of the vBrownBag, Damian does a deeper dive into the Meatgrinder, showing how the different AWS services interact, how the process logs to CloudWatch, and more! 00:00 Intro 1:20 The AWS Services that power the Meatgrinder 💪 1:51 AWS S3 2:18 AWS EventBridge 2:50 AWS Step Functions 4:10 PowerShell on Lambda & Step Functions interaction 🕺💃 7:05 Python Lamba function 7:33 Logging su...

In this episode of the vBrownBag, a host is a guest! Damian does a deep dive into the vBrownBag Meatgrinder, an event-driven automation solution built with AWS Serverless that powers the show behind the scenes. Meatgrinder uses AWS S3, Event Bridge, Step Functions, Lambda, and Cloud Watch and handles post-production automation of vBrownBag content. We'll talk about the design decisions made while...

Riaan Nolan is a HashiCorp Ambassador that has developed Hashiqube, a DevOps development lab that runs all HashiCorp products. Hashiqube has a Docker daemon inside meaning we can run containers inside Hashiqube using Kubernetes (Minikube) or Nomad or Docker run. It runs all Hashicorp products: Vault, Terraform, Nomad, Consul, Waypoint, Boundary, Vagrant, Packer and Sentinel. It also runs a host of...

Reuven Lerner has been using Python for 30 years and teaching it for over 20. Join us as we talk about "How to sort anything with Python". This is sure to be a fun & interesting show as we learn more about Python with Reuven. 00:00 - Intro 03:00 - How to sort anything💡 03:32 - Why is sorting important? 04:27 - Python's list sort method 06:45 - Python's sorted function 10:00 - Sorting strings 🤖 1...

Sr. Software Engineer Kat Morgan has been in the IaC and software space for a long time and she has opinions! Join us as we talk about the shifting landscape of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), AI, Programming Languages (cough cough Python) and how Orchestration is changing! 00:00 - Intro 03:20 - Kat's mad libs idea 💡 06:38 - Problem scenario 24:15 - Pragmatic honesty and internest "issues" 😅 30:40...

We've been anticipating this one 🥰 InstructLab is a model-agnostic open source AI project that facilitates contributions to LLMs! In this episode, IBM DA JJ Asghar talks about InstructLab and Open Source AI! JJ walks us through how to setup and train models locally so that you too can AI 🤖😂 00:00 - Intro 04:41 - What is InstructLab? 17:35 - Taking a look 21:40 - Live demo! Resources: InstructLa...

In this episode, AWS Support Engineer Deepti Trivedi talks about how she gamified her AWS certification process and how she leveraged that process to get her AWS Solutions Architect Professional cert! 00:00 - Intro 01:25 - A Story of Procrastination 09:48 - 22:20 - Resources: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepti-s-trivedi/ https://aws.amazon.com/training/digital/aws-cloud-quest/ https://skillbuilder...

In this episode, VP of Cloud and Data Solutions Jenn Bergstrom talks with us about multi-cloud! It's an often used phrase, but what does it really mean? She defines what multi-cloud is, what are both good and bad uses cases, and says "it depends" a lot! Join us for this extra funny episode 🤣 00:00 - Intro 05:03 - What is multi-cloud? 09:48 - "It depends" 😂 22:20 - The dread spectre of Compliance...