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I am joined by a high-performance career coach, who helps Millenials never feel the shame of failure. In addition to providing tips that everyone can use at any stage of our career journey.

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Jordan Willshear

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I am joined by a high-performance career coach, who helps Millenials never feel the shame of failure. In addition to providing tips that everyone can use at any stage of our career journey. 

####Guest#### 

Jordan Willshear

 ####Socials#### 

https://jordanwillshear.com/ 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-willshear-12311783/

Join me in this weeks episode about a quick review of a few containers I use on my homelab.

Join me for this week's episode in setting up containers at home. Will dive into a few products like Docker, Portainer, and more!

In this week's episode, we will dive into my thoughts and opinions of AWS re:Invent 2022. Was it worth it? Is it everything it's hyped to be? Tune into this week's episode and find out!

Quick update on whats going on from my end. If you are attending AWS Re:Invent 2022 reach out, and let's meet at the conference! 

We are all aware that cloud hosting services are ideal for established or larger organizations. What about small organizations or for personal use? Would it make sense to use a cloud provider or a hosting service? 

Join me back for part two of breaking down the Uber hack! 

****Guest****

Jay Aware

It seems that every week another company is a victim of a breach. Let's break down the Uber incident with our special guest.

****Guest****

Jay Aware

We often find ourselves comfortable with day-to-day tasks. Automation can help simplify job responsibilities and reduce work stress.

In this episode, I will provide my thoughts on the pros/cons of organization size (start-ups, small, medium and large). Is one better than the other or are they all the same?

In this episode, we will cover some best practices in securing your identity and accounts. 

Many of us in the tech industry have thought at some point if an MBA is worth it. Should I get into it or is it even something I want? These are the same questions that I had during my journey. In this episode, I will cover all this and more!

We often forget how important documentation can be. It is a critical part of any job in technology and a great resource to reference back when troubleshooting. 

Leveraging VPN should be used at all times. This service allows us to have an added layer of security to ensure our privacy. 

A review of the 2022 AWS DC Summit.

We often talk ourselves out of situations at work where we should push forward. 

We all find ourselves in situations at work where we don't want to speak up. We are so used to our comfort zone that we don't want to challenge/disagree/ask for help.

The downfall of Twitter or will it skyrocket to Mars??

It seems that more companies are in the business of mining and selling user information. Apple seems to be pushing features to help secure our privacy in everyday use with encrypted Apple pay/cash, blocking apps, creating alias emails...etc. 

It seems the word Ops is now being thrown out in front of everything. Let's dive into a popular topic of GitOps and how we can use it to solve popular pain points. 

Excited to share with you all a new series called "Day in the life". In the first episode of this series, we will talk about what it's like to be a Senior Cloud Engineer and a few tips to help in your journey!

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Mike Sweikata

This week I will be joined by a special guest to talk about Terraform! We will cover the basics of Terraform and a few best practices on implementing Terraform in any environment. In addition to sharing a few gotchas in hopes to help you all from making the same mistake. 

Disclaimer: Jay Aware is joining this episode from an unofficial capacity, and not as a representative of HashiCorp. Any statements or discussions made are his opinions only and not the opinion or statements of HashiCorp.

We all see tons of ads on our phones and home networks. The best way to block them is by implementing a service that will blanket the entire network. In this episode, I will cover the two best home solutions to reduce the ads/tracking to help secure your online experience. 

Let's talk about the newly revamped Windows Subsystem Linux offering. It has not been the best offering in the past, but let's see if the recent refresh has made it a good contender. 

One hacker goes against a foreign nation in a DDOS attack.

If you have not already check out AWS Services Part 1! 

Ever heard the term service accounts and wondered what it does? In this episode, I will cover that and a few scenarios of when to use it.

I am a firm believer that failing is part of the journey. If we do not fail we will never learn from our mistakes and we will never level up to the next stage of our careers. 

It feels almost daily AWS is providing new services to its platform. In this new series, I will break down many of the services to help everyone have a better understanding. 

Vulnerability discovered from log4j seemed to have taken the internet by surprise. For few weeks this seemed to be the only topic of converstation by colleagues of mine in various sectors. Could this be the biggest security vulnerablityv of 2021?

We have all been hearing the rave on NFT. It seems to be the next big thing in the crypto world. Listen in to this weeks episode, to have a better understanding of NFT!!

Breaking news today AWS had a major outage that impacted hundreds of companies. AWS prides itself in having the highest availability. However, today (12/7/21) we see a widespread outage across all of US-East-1. 

Panasonic and GoDaddy have found themselves victims of a data breach. It seems every week more companies are coming forward with information about a breach. Lets talk about these two companies and how they got compromised. 

We are very custom to using standard operating systems like Windows/Mac. Often might forget that alternative solutions are available to us. Lets talk about linux and how it is still needed.

It seems each week another company is a victim of data breach. Lets discuss few basic tips on how to defend oursevles against idenity theft.