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• TCP Talks: Cloud Wisdom with Bart Castle

  In this TCP Talks episode, Justin Brodley and Jonathan Baker talk with Bart Castle, an AWS and cloud computing trainer and media personality. Bart works with IT training company CBT Nuggets and also does cloud-migration consulting projects.  Bart shares the patterns he seems based on training demand and also advises how to decide which certification to go for next. He discusses the importance of solving business problems that will help achieve the business’ goals while retooling and transforming systems. “At this point in my career, every technical conversation that I have is always paired up with a business value conversation,” he notes. But how should a data team shift focus to better solve business problems? He suggests looking for patterns. Uncovering patterns can help determine actionable steps to maximize efficiency and enable new business opportunities. Bart also discusses cloud computing trends, CloudFormation stacking, hybrid deployments, and containers. Featured Guest Name: Bart Castle What he does: Bart is a cloud computing and AWS expert and technical trainer, as well as a consultant.  Key quote: “In the end, we’re still looking for those tools that will bridge gaps. This is why, for me, being an integrations professional and getting what integration means is skill number one across all different arenas. Everywhere you look, it’s an integration problem.”  Where to find him: LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Key Takeaways When thinking about all the different training options, Bart suggests pursuing the certification that would help you land a specific job or role. If you’re not sure what your next job might be, look at SysOps administration first since it is closest to traditional network help desk operations support roles. Based on his training background, Bart sees a rising interest in network automation. Many teams are working with various vendors to address networking and connectivity and to make the transition from command line administration to Python automation.  “A lot of what I’m seeing here is the switch from real deep specialty to real broad generalization, and that can be an overwhelming bite to take when you look at how much information there is to consume,” says Bart.  Learning how the tools work is the easy part, but you have to dig deeper to make it work for your specific business use case. Bart recommends looking for white papers, as well as case studies and blog posts. Communities (like TCP!) can also point you in the right direction.   Bart says, “Once you get those examples of how a piece of input data with the right transformation with this pairing of reporting can solve this problem — now, you’re putting tools in your belt that are going beyond just using the tools, and how to actually solve business problems with them.” Here’s what was mentioned in the episode CBT Nuggets: provides in-demand training, primarily in IT, project management, and office productivity topics. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3): a cloud object storage service.  “What is DevOps?“: an AWS blog explaining the DevOps

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• TCP-Talks: The unknown unknowns of cloud security with Josh Stella from Fugue.co

  Josh Stella (twitter: @joshstella) joins us to talk about the state of cloud security. We discuss Fugue’s new report, the complexity and challenges of IAM, and the most common cloud misconfiguration aren’t always the ones you would expect. Fugue ensures cloud infrastructure stays in continuous compliance with enterprise security policies. Our solution identifies cloud infrastructure security risks and compliance violations and ensures that they are never repeated. Fugue provides baseline drift detection and automated remediation to eliminate data breaches, and powerful visualization and reporting tools to easily demonstrate compliance.

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• Episode 1 – What happens in las vegas makes my liver hurt

  Enjoy our recap of AWS Re:Invent 2018 Topics: Announcements Pre-Reinvent Monday-Tuedsay - Recap Andy Jassy - Recap Werner Vogels - Recap Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting - www.fogops.io - Your leading AWS premier partner helping companies move to the cloudLastweek in AWS - www.lastweekinaws.com - Your weekly dose of AWS Snark and announcements. 

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• TCP Talks: Bring Order to your Monitoring with Mike Kelly – Bonus Ep1

  Justin Brodley and Jonathan Baker kick off our new TCP Talks bonus episodes with a chat with Mike Kelly, CTO at Blue Medora. Monitoring can be hard on-premises or in the cloud. As a result, it can be downright scary with multi-cloud strategies, hybrid cloud, and legacy tools. Bring order chaos, by centralizing the management of metrics and logs. From solving out of disk space alerts to building observability techniques, Stackdriver and Bindplane can help.  Adopting these practices and principals will help your Observability and SRE teams in the cloud.

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• Episode 26: The Cloud Pod Goes Event Driven

  Peter is back after a few weeks away from the show. Azure launches new Event Grid features, Palo Alto Networks picks up Twistlock and Puresec and Google has a really bad day. Plus the amazing lightning round with Peter. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – https://fogops.io/thecloudpod Topics: 25th Episode Blog Post Azure has simplified event-driven architectures with new updates to Event Grid Palo Alto Networks enters into definitive agreement to purchase Twistlock and Puresec Oracle Lays off hundreds from its Seattle office as its cloud strategy remains grounded Azure Adaptive network hardening in Azure Security Center is now GA Amazon EBS adds ability to take point-in-time, crash-consistent snapshots across multiple EBS volumes Announcing Tag-Based Access Control for AWS Cloudformation New Data API for Amazon Aurora Serverless Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) – Now Generally Available Google Cloud has Major Outage on 6/2 Google Cloud Outage resolved, but it reveals holes in cloud computing atmosphere An update on Sunday’s service disruption Lightning Round (Jonathan 6, Justin 9, Peter 1 and Guest 3): AWS is Announcing Windows Server version 1903 AMI’s for Amazon EC2 Amazon Chime now supports United States Toll-Free Numbers

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