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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Oct 7, 2022 • 31min
Episode 12: Centralized Logging Part 3 - Third Party Services
Great Lakes Tech Leaders Ray Welker, Philip Wortinger, and Morgan Worgess-Carveth discuss different third-party solutions they've used, the pros and cons of various solutions, and how they found the services were best utilized.
Sep 30, 2022 • 28min
Episode 11: Certification Paths & Resources
Suggested by tech leader Kyle McAuliffe, the Great Lakes Tech Leaders discuss the certifications they've found to be most relevant, and what resources were most helpful while they prepared for exam day.
Sep 23, 2022 • 33min
Episode 10: CloudWatch Dashboards - Building Custom Metrics
Great Lakes Tech Leaders Derek DeJonghe, Thomas Knox, and William Vallance discuss the value of CloudWatch dashboards with its single pane view, and how to customize dashboards by configuring JSON documents.
Sep 16, 2022 • 29min
Episode 9: Team Composition & Skill Sets
There are a lot of factors to consider when it comes to building the ideal team. Tech leaders Kyle McAuliffe, William Valance, Ray Welker, Tom Kowalski, and Derek DeJonghe discuss how factors such as psychological safety, diversity, communication, and more contribute to overall team productivity and efficiency.
Sep 9, 2022 • 31min
Episode 8: Centralized Logging Pt. 2 - Application Logs
This week tech leaders Jason Brown, Tom Kowalski, and Philip Wortinger continue our centralized logging discussion series with application logs. As monolithic apps are phasing out and multitudes of smaller components across different environments are becoming more favored, centralized application logs are needed. Listen to learn how these Great Lakes tech leaders store their app logs and utilize the data to increase the application's performance.
Aug 29, 2022 • 32min
Episode 7: Immutability, State, and Scaling
Suggested by tech leader Onorio Catenacci, Great Lakes tech leaders Ray Welker, Kevin Lucas, and Tom Kowalski discuss immutability regarding AWS, and how to make things more asynchronous to allow them to build applications that are able to scale.
Aug 17, 2022 • 33min
Episode 6: Centralized Logging Part 1 - AWS Logs
Tech leaders Derek DeJonghe, Tom Kowalski, and Kayla Norris kick off part one of our centralized logging series as they discuss log consolidation of AWS. Listen as they touch on AWS logs such as CloudTrail, VPC flow, configuration logs, and more.
Aug 11, 2022 • 32min
Episode 5: Screening Candidates
There are a lot of factors to consider when screening candidates. What's the candidate's curiosity level? Are they eager to learn? Do they know where to find solutions? Listen as Great Lakes Tech Leaders Jason Brown, Onorio Catenacci, Michael Girard, Mike Onslow, and Ray Welker discuss what they look for when they screen candidates.
Aug 4, 2022 • 50min
Episode 4: Networking in AWS
This week Mike Wahl, Ray Welker, Derek DeJonghe, and Tom Kowalski discussed Transit Gateways in AWS, and how to configure them in order to route between regions and over a VPN. Storage Gateway and Direct Connect in AWS also came up in conversation as they discussed improving latency when work streams are in multiple regions and are needing to access centralized resources.
Aug 1, 2022 • 30min
Episode 3: AWS CDK for Infrastructure as Code
Cloud Solutions Architect, Jason Brown, and Cloud Solutions Engineer, Philip Wortinger, discuss what cloud development kit (CDK) is, and their general impressions.
