

Ardan Labs Podcast
Bill Kennedy
This podcast features intimate conversations with engineers who are in the forefront of building or teaching technology. Join us as we learn how our guests got started in tech, the type and level of education they've obtained, their work history, and personal stories about their journey. We publish the show on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and the Web biweekly on Wednesdays at 12pm US Eastern Time. Subscribe and STAY TUNED!
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Aug 31, 2022 • 1h 13min
Advancing Your Career with Sonja Price
Sonja Price is a career strategist, salary advisor, leadership coach, and the founder of Dynamo Careers. We learn all about Sonja’s journey from being employee #2 at a startup in the early 2000’s to finding her passion for helping others to advance their career. You’ll hear tips on negotiating, how to ask for a raise, and how to get to where you want to go in your career.Connect with Sonja:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonjaprice/Dynamo Careers: https://dynamocareers.com/ Mentioned in today’s episode:Pivot Point System (Book): https://www.amazon.com/Pivot-Point-System-Unlock-Career/dp/1092945598The Infinite Leader (Book): https://dynamocareers.com/the-infinite-leader-book Why Should You Change Jobs Every 2-3 Years? (Blog): https://dynamocareers.com/change-jobs-every-2-3-years Free Assessment: https://dynamocareers.com/assessment Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/ Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/ Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs

Aug 17, 2022 • 1h 55min
Cluster Infrastructure, Coreboot, & Plan 9 with Ron Minnich
Ron Minnich is the President of the Plan 9 Foundation and a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google. Ron has been on the forefront of many technologies, starting his journey with computers as a kid in the 1960’s. We hear stories of building relay computers, cluster infrastructure research, supercomputing, LinuxBIOS (coreboot), Plan 9, & his present day work at Google. Connect with Ron:Email: rminnich@gmail.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/corebootLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronminnich/ Plan 9 Foundation: https://plan9foundation.org/Coreboot (LinuxBIOS): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreboot Mentioned in today’s episode:Gemini 2 Launch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_2 Geniac: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geniac (Book) The Elements of Networking Style: https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Networking-Style-Animadversions-Intercomputer/dp/0595088791 (Book) Software Tools: https://www.amazon.com/Software-Tools-Brian-W-Kernighan/dp/020103669X (Book) Computer Lib/Dream Machines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Lib/Dream_Machines OpenSUSE Talk (June 2022): https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSC22/program/proposals/3767 IBM Blue Gene: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Blue_Gene Emulytics: https://www.sandia.gov/emulytics/ Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/ Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/ Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs

Aug 3, 2022 • 1h 33min
Trust Engineering with Florent Biville
Florent Biville maintains the official Go driver at graph database company, neo4j. We talk about the challenges and benefits of constantly learning new languages, interviewing at large companies, consulting life, and the importance of building trust through consistency. Connect with Florent:Twitter: https://twitter.com/fbivilleWebsite: https://florent.biville.net GitHub: https://github.com/fbiville Mentioned in today’s episode:neo4j: https://neo4j.comGo Driver Documentation: https://neo4j.com/developer/go/ Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/ Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/ Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs

Jul 20, 2022 • 1h 29min
Never Say No to Opportunities with Steve Wade
Steve Wade is a founding engineer at KSOC Labs, a cloud-native SaaS platform built to remediate Kubernetes security risks in real time. We talk about the struggles around playing professional soccer, the importance of saying yes to opportunities, finding fulfillment in your career, and LOTS of Kubernetes chat.Connect with Steve:Twitter: https://twitter.com/swade1987Website: https://www.stevenwade.co.uk/GitHub: https://github.com/swade1987Mentioned in today’s episode:KSOC Labs: https://www.ksoc.com/Cuelang: https://cuelang.org/Kelsey Hightower on healthz: https://vimeo.com/173610242Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blogGithub: https://github.com/ardanlabs

Jul 6, 2022 • 1h 32min
Ethical AI, Endangered Languages, & NLP with Daniel Whitenack
Daniel Whitenack is a co-host of the Practical AI podcast and a data scientist with SIL International. In one of our more technical episodes, we hear about Daniel’s journey from computational physics in college to using artificial intelligence for language processing. Tune in for a conversation on ethical AI, endangered languages, real-time translation, and more!Connect with Daniel:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwhitenaWebsite: https://datadan.io/ Email: dan_whitenack@sil.orgPractical AI podcast: https://changelog.com/practicalai Gopher Slack Channel: https://invite.slack.golangbridge.org/ Mentioned in today’s episode:SIL International: https://sil.orgMultilingual AI: https://ai.sil.org Federated Learning: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_learning Microsoft Flight Simulator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator Babel Fish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel_Fish_(website) Data Science with Go (GopherCon 2016): https://youtu.be/D5tDubyXLrQ Pachyderm: https://www.pachyderm.com/ Nvidia Grace Hopper: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/grace-cpu/ Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/ Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/ Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs

Jun 22, 2022 • 1h 30min
LinkedIn Learning, Interviewing, & Adding Skills with Adelina Simion
Adelina Simion is a technology evangelist at Form3 and teaches courses on Go with LinkedIn Learning. We learn about Adelina’s passion for learning new things and now sharing that knowledge with others. Tune in to learn how someone becomes a LinkedIn Learning instructor, tips on interviewing, thoughts on changing jobs to add skills, and more.Connect with Adelina:Twitter: https://twitter.com/classic_addetzLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adelina-simion/Linktree: https://linktr.ee/adelinasimion Mentioned in today’s episode:LinkedIn Learning courses: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/instructors/adelina-simionGoLab Conference: https://golab.io/Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blogGithub: https://github.com/ardanlabs

Jun 8, 2022 • 1h 23min
Tokyo, Python, & Google with Ian Lewis
Ian Lewis is a developer advocate at Google Cloud. In this podcast episode, Ian shares some of his insights on how to be a productive engineer when the codebase is in another language, how to build a successful conference, navigating the job market, containers, security and more. Connect with Ian:Twitter: https://twitter.com/IanMLewisLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianmlewis/Website: https://www.ianlewis.orgMentioned in today’s episode:Google Cloud: https://cloud.google.com/Commodore 128: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_128Unibasic: https://www.unibasic.com/Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blogGithub: https://github.com/ardanlabs

May 25, 2022 • 2h 4min
Teaching & Sharing Knowledge with Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson is a senior developer relations engineer at Google. Mark has a passion for teaching and sharing knowledge with younger engineers. We hear about his experience growing up in Chicago, overcoming adversity & peer pressure, navigating the job market, interviewing at Google, and much more!Connect with Mark:Twitter: https://twitter.com/marktechsonWebsite: https://marktechson.comEmail List: http://marktechson.dev/welcomeWant more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blogGithub: https://github.com/ardanlabs

May 11, 2022 • 1h 28min
Leaving a Legacy of Love with Ken Wimberly
Ken Wimberly is the founder of the Legacy of Love app, a parent-to-child journaling app designed to capture the moments that matter. Ken speaks about the challenges of building and growing an app as a non-technical founder, his entrepreneurial endeavors as the owner of a pizza place, in commercial real estate, and opening a chain of laundromats.Connect with Ken:Email: ken@legacyoflove.appFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lordwimberly Mentioned in today’s episode:Legacy of Love: https://legacyjournal.app/LaundryLuv: https://www.laundryluv.com/ Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/ Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/ Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs

Apr 27, 2022 • 1h 18min
Environmental Consulting to Tech with Cathleen Turner
Cathleen Turner is a senior software engineer at Perch and founder of Czero Grocery & CZero Foods (formerly listful.ai). We hear about how she first was introduced to programming through her studies of environmental science & oceanography. After realizing environmental consulting was not for her, Cathleen dove in head first to programming. We talk about coding bootcamps, working with startups, being a woman minority in tech, and more!Connect with Cathleen:Email: cat@listful.aiTwitter: https://twitter.com/_cat_turnerLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathleenturner/CZero Foods: https://twitter.com/czerofoodsMentioned in today’s episode:MatLab: https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab.htmlLaunchCode: https://www.launchcode.org/Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blogGithub: https://github.com/ardanlabs