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From SysAdmin to Platform Engineer with Steve Buchanan

RunAs Radio

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Adapting to the Dynamic Tech Industry Landscape

Exploring the evolution from traditional tech roles to platform engineering, emphasizing the importance of treating platforms as products, automating processes to serve developers efficiently, and preemptively addressing deployment, security, and management considerations. Reflecting on the shift towards desktop virtualization, managing Citrix Farms to AVD, emphasizing rapid environment deployment in education, and considering broader platform aspects like security, performance, and connectivity. Delving into concepts of serving out desktops to customers, self-hosted agents for Azure DevOps, GitHub actions, and the significance of using app proxies like jump boxes in cloud architecture.

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