Day Two DevOps
Packet Pushers
Join hosts Ned Bellavance and Kyler Middleton as they dive deep into the challenges of DevOps from the perspective of seasoned practitioners. You'll hear from expert guests—technical leaders, trainers, and consultants with years of hands-on experience—discussing the nuances of DevOps. From AWS to Azure, networking to security, automation to modern cloud environments, each weekly episode equips you with the insights to confidently address tech and business challenges such as resilience, cost management, and performance. Whether you want to hone your skills today or prepare for what’s coming next, Day Two DevOps cuts through the vendor fog to guide you through a shifting IT landscape.
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Jul 26, 2023 • 57min
Day Two Cloud 204: Deploying Cloud-Delivered Security With Cisco Secure Access (Sponsored)
Explore the evolution of remote access to a zero trust model with Cisco Secure Access. Learn about cloud-delivered security architecture, user experience enhancements, and evolving security protocols. Discover the simplified licensing and integration within the Cisco ecosystem for better security outcomes.
Jul 19, 2023 • 56min
Day Two Cloud 203: Becoming An SRE – It’s More Than Just Software Skills
If you want to be a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) you need strong software skills. You also have to be versed in observability, incident response, capacity planning, change management, performance, even security. But wait, there's more! Our guest on today's Day Two Cloud argues you need strong communication skills, emotional intelligence, personal resilience, and the ability to work with a team. Our guest is Amin Astaneh.
Jul 12, 2023 • 45min
Day Two Cloud 202: How Azure Embraces Terraform For Infrastructure As Code
On today's Day Two Cloud, we talk with Microsoft about how it's embracing Terraform to make it Azure-friendly, including the Terraform Export Tool, the AzAPI Provider, and a Terraform on Azure community. This is not a sponsored episode.
Jul 5, 2023 • 57min
Day Two Cloud 201: Building A Product That Uses LLMs
Today we talk about Large Language Models (LLMs) and writing products and applications that use LLMs. Our guest is Phillip Carter, Principal PM at Honeycomb.io. Honeycomb makes an observability tool for site reliability engineers, and Carter worked on a project called Query Assistant that helps Honeycomb users get answers to questions about how to use the product and get insights from it. We discuss taking natural language input and turning it into outputs to help SREs do their jobs.
Jun 28, 2023 • 50min
Day Two Cloud 200: Coaching For Accidental (And On-Purpose) Managers
Going from a tech role to manager is more than just a new gig---it's a full-blown career change. On today's Day Two Cloud we talk with management coach Steve Dwire about a manager's primary responsibilities, what new managers usually get wrong, management education vs. experience, and how to get better at the job. This episode goes places we didn't expect, so come along for the ride.
Jun 14, 2023 • 51min
Day Two Cloud 199: Platform Engineering With Suzanne Daniels
Suzanne Daniels, Developer Relations Lead at Port, discusses platform engineering and internal developer portals. Topics include treating technology as a product, incorporating fin ups and scorecards, integration and aggregation, choosing between building, open-source, and buying a product, and exploring developer resources.
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Jun 7, 2023 • 37min
Day Two Cloud 198: Modern Cloud Design Themes From CFD 17
Guest Michael Levan joins Ned Bellavance and Ethan Banks to discuss modern cloud design themes from CFD 17. Topics include platform engineering, data protection and recovery, the relevance of VMware, using Azure VMware solution for disaster recovery, navigating traditional vs new technologies in the cloud industry, and the importance of delegates at Tech Field Day.
May 31, 2023 • 54min
Day Two Cloud 197: Understanding Decentralized Identity With Dr. Joanne Friedman
Expert in Decentralized Identity (DID), Dr. Joanne Friedman, discusses the significance of DID, challenges faced by developers in the OT group, empowering individuals with decentralized identity, establishing trust in the system without a central authority, implementing DID in manufacturing, and various platforms for engaging with the guest.
May 24, 2023 • 47min
Day Two Cloud 196: Peering Behind The Curtain Of Podsqueeze’s AI Podcasting Service
Today's show gets behind the curtain of a cloud service called Podsqueeze. Podsqueeze is an application that ingests audio and video files and then produces text-based output including a show description, an episode transcript, suggested headlines, segment timestamps, suggested social media posts, and more. The Packet Pushers are experimenting with Podsqueeze as part of our own production. Being curious nerds, we thought this was a good opportunity to see how the service really works. Our guest is Tiago Ferreira, one of the entrepreneurs and developers of Podsqueeze.
May 17, 2023 • 40min
Day Two Cloud 195: Planning For Post-Quantum Cryptography
Today's Day Two Cloud explores post-quantum cryptography and how to make your cryptographic secrets safe from quantum computers. We're looking at a time horizon of at least five or ten years, so this isn't an immediate threat, but it doesn't hurt to start thinking about it now. We dive into how quantum computing and quantum encryption work, their impact on cryptographic secrets, what it means for technologies such as IPSec VPNs, and more. Melchior Aelmans is our guest.
