DevOps With Zack

Discover how Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling (KEDA) revolutionizes workload management in containerized environments with real-world examples and practical tips.

About the Guest Speaker:

Carlo is a chemical engineer and beer brewer who, after falling in love with tech, made the leap of faith to pursue a career in IT. He works primarily in Cloud Native, Containers, and DevOps space. His advocacy is to write and share how to leverage new technologies in solving real-world problems. He enjoys mentoring and empowering others. Lastly, he enjoys a bottle of beer or hanging out with his kid!

Welcome to another riveting episode of 'DevOps with Zack'! In this episode, I have a special guest, Suzana, who is making waves in the tech community of New Zealand with her remarkable contributions. Suzana joins me to share her incredible journey.

Suzana is an AWS User Group Leader in New Zealand, an AWS Community Builder, a certified AWS Cloud Practitioner and the Auckland AWS Tools and Programming meetup group organiser. She is also a FullStack Dev Group Auckland NZ and Cloud Native Auckland co-organiser. Suzana graduated as a Full Stack developer in New Zealand after her 40s, having no previous tech background. She also has a bachelor's in Communications with over 20 years of experience from Brazil. Passionate for both areas, Software Development and Communications, she actively uses her skills to increase the number of women, minorities and under-represented groups in tech, help graduates and juniors excel in their careers and support projects focused on the tech community's growth.

In this podcast, Pubudu will take a deep dive into the benefits of using Amazon EventBridge Pipes, how it works, and why it is a game changer for developers.

About Pubudu:

In this episode, Johannes and I talk about the new Amazon CodeCatalyst that was announced at AWS re:Invent 2022.

Johannes is another fantastic AWS Community builder I met at AWS re:Invent 2022. Check out the following links to see what he has published.

Connect with Johannes:

Nowadays everyone is talking about WEB3. I always had this thought about what WEB3 is and how DevOps can be involved? Luckily I had a chat with my good friend and colleague regarding this matter. After the discussion, I thought of recording a podcast and sharing it with you all.

listen today to understand whats is web3 and how it’ll be used in the future. and more importantly, how can DevOps help the blockchain development to glide through.

About Kalith:

Founding Partner at Metalist and Fitclub. Graduate of North Dakota State University, Bachelors in Computer Science with Magna Cum lade honors. Over 10 years of experience as a serial tech entrepreneur having executed over 50 successful projects and 2 projects in the crypto space.

Nowadays everyone is talking about WEB3. I always had this thought about what WEB3 is and how DevOps can be involved? Luckily I had a chat with my good friend and colleague regarding this matter. After the discussion, I thought of recording a podcast and sharing it with you all.

listen today to understand whats is web3 and how it’ll be used in the future. and more importantly, how can DevOps help the blockchain development to glide through.

About Kalith:

Founding Partner at Metalist and Fitclub. Graduate of North Dakota State University, Bachelors in Computer Science with Magna Cum lade honors. Over 10 years of experience as a serial tech entrepreneur having executed over 50 successful projects and 2 projects in the crypto space.

Alex Radu is a VP Product Adoption and Marketing for Public Cloud at JP Morgan Chase in Glasgow, Scotland the land of the unicorns (it's a thing). Alex is also a speaker, tech community manager and recent graduate of an MSc Computer Science at University of Bath.
She used to work as a conversational developer, software engineer and community manager among other things. Alex is a fervent advocate of diversity in tech and loves to support various communities, like codebar, Aspiring Women Speakers, #IamRemarkable, GitHub Campus Experts, Women Techmakers and more!
In her role, Alex helps bring products and brands to life using community and marketing, as well as acting as a navigator between product, design, engineering and customer teams. This is all supported by data and feedback in all the work she does in the product space and can help reach the adoption and retention goals of the business whilst delighting current and potential customers!

Connect With Alex Radu: 

Amila is discussing about Distributed Systems Observability. He is a Senior DevOps at Zalando, Germany.

He is Specialised in
Kubernetes
Ansible Automation
Architecting AWS based solutions
Implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines
Implementing deployment pipelines for micro service architectures.
DevOps and Agile practices.
Deep root cause analysis.

Had a great discussion with Shai Almog about Polyglot Debugging. Shai Almog is a Developer Advocate at Lightrun. Co-Founder of Codename One. Java Rockstar, Speaker, Author, Blogger and open source hacker. He is a major open source contributor who led key global projects around the world in his 30 year professional career. 

Today's guest speaker is Sewvandi - Undergraduate Trainee @ IFS R&D, an Open Source Enthusiast.

She is Volunteering in:

• Women In FOSS Core Representative
• President - SLIIT Women In FOSS
• Secretary - SLIIT FOSS Board 20/22
• Core Volunteer - FOSS Sri Lanka 

Today's guest speaker is Chamila Liyanage - Software Architect @ LSEG, Specializing in Microservices & Cloud based Large scale systems design and development. We are talking about some fascinating use cases of DevOps.

Camila's YouTube Channel, Which is really great he did in the Sinhala language.

Ravindu is sharing his experience with DevOps transformation in a start-up and the journey of how they enabled DevOps. He is an Associate Technical Leader @ Emojot inc and DevOps and Cloud Computing enthusiast.

Thulasya is sharing his past experience with one of the leading taxi/food booking app in Sri Lanka about How Kubernetes made their lives easier, how they managed their infrastructure with unexpected loads (such as rainy days )and some of the best practices, he is an Associate Tech Lead at SyscoLabs, also a Kubernetes enthusiast

Thilina is sharing his one of the recent experience with AWS RDS Write IOPS. How their team identified bottlenecks in a web application that consists of insensitive writing operations while carrying out a benchmarking load test. He is an Associate Technical Lead - Cloud Services at Sysco Labs and a blogger.