Lunch with Tech Leaders

The Great Lakes Tech Leaders take a technical deep-dive into the newly launched AI-powered coding tool, GitHub Co-Pilot. The community discusses the technical capabilities of Co-Pilot, how it works, and the potential impact of this tool on the software engineering industry.

The GLTL community returns this week to discuss the visual workflow service - AWS Step Functions. Listen to learn what Step Functions are, how to know when you should be using them over Lambda, and how they can be used for automation, microservice orchestration, and data/ML pipeline creation.

The Great Lakes Tech Leaders discuss the learning curve of Kubernetes, key features and benefits, and some best practices for working with Kubernetes, including optimizing performance, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring reliability.

In this week's episode, the GLTL community dives into the world of feature flags, and explores how mastering this technique can help take your tech career to the next level and even conquer the world. GLTL's feature flag experts start off with a discussion on the different types of feature flags, why they are so useful, and how they can reduce development time, cost and risk. They explore different methods and strategies for managing feature flags in different types of projects, along with the pros and cons of each. Finally, the community wraps up with tips and tricks for getting the most out of feature flagging, from novice to veteran. Listen as industry leaders take a closer look at how feature flags can help you take your career to the stratosphere!

ChatGPT and the future of AI has been a hot topic for the Great Lakes Tech Leaders community. This week, the community's top AI experts discuss the transformer architecture foundation of ChatGPT, the importance of knowing how to interact with AI, and the ethical, legal, and security concerns of using ChatGPT in the tech industry.

This week the Great Lakes Tech Leaders community is here to discuss how you and your team can go from zero to tagging heroes by implementing a tagging schema with consistent values, enforcing tagging policies to ensure compliance, and utilizing automation to maintain consistency and security.

The GLTL community discusses data operations with Data Analyst, Grant Allen from RightBrain Networks and Test Data Management Engineer, Mark Schiebold from General Motors. Learn about measuring the value of data, best practices, and compliance.

The Great Lakes Tech Leaders product management experts return this week to discuss who and what drives defining a product's goals and how to balance user feedback and quantitative data in order to validate those goals.

Why is the popularity of serverless growing? What does serverless really mean? The GLTL community answers these questions and more as they discuss how serverless technologies as a service changes the software development lifecycle, how it enables the DevOps philosophy, and how to optimize your observability and debugging capabilities while working in serverless.

The Great Lakes Tech Leaders community discusses variations of DevOps team topologies and how each model impacts and reflects an organization's maturity, customer focus, and culture.