Lunch with Tech Leaders
RightBrain Networks
Listen on your lunch break to some of the greatest technology practitioners in the Great Lakes region as they have engaging conversations about software development and cloud engineering with other industry leaders and subject matter experts. These episodes are created by the Great Lakes Tech Leaders, a Discord community for like-minded technologists to stay up-to-date on the latest changes and trends in the industry. Please come join the conversation by visiting gltl.rbn.ai.
Episodes
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Dec 28, 2022 • 40min
Episode 22: Quality Assurance - How Does QA Fit in to All of This?
This week, the Great Lakes Tech Leaders community turns to its SQA members to ask what their role is, how they got to where they are today, and where they work within their organizational structure.
Dec 16, 2022 • 43min
Episode 21: What is Product Management?
The Great Lakes Tech Leaders community rounded up product manager members from Google News Apps, DaySmart, and Opendock to discuss how product management came to be, how they would define product management, how they manage getting caught between stakeholders and the end user, and what their day-to-day work looks like.
Dec 14, 2022 • 35min
Episode 20: SRE - SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs
For episode 20, we are kicking off our SRE series with Great Lakes Tech Leaders Jordan DeBeer, Google, Tom Kowalski, AWS community builder, Kyle Robertson, Github, and Adam Oberhausen, RightBrain Networks, discuss how SREs came to be, what SLIs, SLAs, and SLOs are, and more!
Dec 9, 2022 • 34min
Episode 19: Are Delivery Teams Taking Ownership of Their IaC?
In the cloud consulting realm, we're often asked, "Who should do the platform work?". The Great Lakes Tech Leaders discuss how to answer this question given several contextual factors such as non-negotiable standards, engineering, management, and platform team capabilities. The GLTL community also dives into DevOps implementation and execution.
Nov 28, 2022 • 36min
Episode 18: CDK vs Terraform
This week, the Great Lakes Tech Leaders community has an epic CDK vs Terraform showdown as they discuss what's in store for Terraform, the evolution of IaC, and the rollback process.
Nov 16, 2022 • 29min
Episode 17: Cost Savings & Optimization - AWS Focus
This week, Great Lakes Tech Leaders Tom Kowalski, Kyle McAuliffe, Adam Oberhausen, and Travis Walker discuss strategies for optimizing hosting spend going beyond the more obvious ways to save money in AWS. The tech leaders touch on reserved instances, spot instances, compute savings plans, Trusted Advisor, cost alarms, and more.
Nov 4, 2022 • 33min
Episode 16: How to Think Like a Software Architect
Great Lakes Tech Leaders Jason Brown, Lance Carlson, Derek DeJonghe, Tom Kowalski, and Adam Oberhausen how to think like a software architect while maximizing customer value.
Oct 28, 2022 • 26min
Episode 15: Security Suite
Jason Brown, Kyle McAuliffe, and William Valance lead this week's discussion on security suites. The Great Lakes Tech Leaders touch on building solid core components, AWS Trusted Advisor, control tower organizations, and more.
Oct 21, 2022 • 30min
Episode 14: Hiring Good Engineering Teams
This week, Great Lakes Tech Leaders Derek DeJonghe, Adam Oberhausen, and Michael Girard lead a community-wide discussion on what characteristics and skills they look for when building the ideal engineering team and how to look out for them in the interview process.
Oct 14, 2022 • 30min
Episode 13: Open Source Contributing & Consuming
Derek DeJonghe, Tom Kowalski, and Adam Oberhausen lead this week's discussion on consumption and contribution to open-source software. The Great Lakes Tech Leaders cover maintaining small tool repositories, CDK libraries, and how companies invest in maintaining open-source tools.
