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Since Jun 2024
Latest Episode May 2026

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vBrownBag.com is a community of people who believe in helping other people. Specifically we work in IT infrastructure and we help other people in the IT industry to better their careers through education. Most frequent activity is producing the vBrownBag podcast. vBrownBag also attends global conferences to produce TechTalks and theater sessions.

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Yelling at LLM Costs

May 28, 2026 56m

AI subscriptions are becoming as essential as internet bills - and just as expensive. The vBrownBag gang takes a hard look at the real cost of LLMs and what happens when the free ride ends. Chris,…

The AI Dev Skills You Need to Future-Proof Your Career

May 26, 2026 1h 4m

Join us as Brian Hough (CEO & Founder of Tech Stack Playbook, AWS Hero) gets brutally honest about the state of tech hiring and what skills developers actually need to survive - and thrive - in…

Claude / Codex / Gemini / Open-model Gen AI from Zero with Andrew Brown

May 10, 2026 59m

Andrew Brown (ExamPro) joins the vBrownBag crew to talk Gen AI skills, bootcamps, and whether vibe coding has made "learning to code" irrelevant. 🤖 Spoiler: it hasn't. Andrew walks through his…

Survive & Thrive: Skills for Techs in 2026 with Stephen Sennett

May 09, 2026 1h 1m

AWS Hero Stephen Sennett joins the vBrownBag crew to argue that foundational knowledge matters more now, not less. 🧠 They dig into why communication skills have become a functional technical…

Getting Started with Local AI

Apr 21, 2026 1h 17m

Join us for Part 1 of a 3-part series as Du'An Lightfoot (Senior AI Engineer at Akamai) breaks down everything you need to know to get started running AI models locally on your own hardware. Du'An…

AI for Good

Apr 20, 2026 37m

Join us as Kira Intrator (MIT-trained urban planner, systems thinker, and social impact technologist based in Geneva) makes the case that AI for Good isn't failing because of models - it's failing…

700,000 Learners Later: AWS Education Community and What's Changed

Apr 18, 2026 44m

Join us as Hiroko Nishimura (AWS Hero, LinkedIn Learning Instructor, and author of AWS for Non-Engineers) reflects on seven years of teaching cloud to 700,000 learners - what she's learned about…

Uncovering the Hard Truth of Vendor Neutrality in OTEL

Apr 07, 2026 50m

Join us as Josh and Adriana call BS on the oversimplified vendor neutrality narrative - because switching observability vendors isn't magic, even with OpenTelemetry. Josh and Adriana walk through…

Troubleshooting AWS Hallucinations from Vector Store DBs

Mar 05, 2026 48m

Join us as Amelia shares the debugging story nobody tells you about - how her vector store DB couldn't surface specific data until she tested it with simplified data from ChatGPT. Amelia walks…

AI Agents Made Simple: Everything You Need to Know

Feb 27, 2026 1h 9m

Join us as Du'An breaks down AI agents in a way that actually makes sense - what they are, how to use them, and how to get started today. Du'An walks through the fundamentals of AI agents with live…

This is Fine: Tech Employment in the AI Era

Feb 20, 2026

Join us as Chris gets brutally honest about tech employment in the AI era: what's dying, what's thriving, and how to position yourself to survive the chaos. Chris walks through the current state of…

AI Governance for Virtualized Infrastructure: What vSphere Admins Need to Know

Feb 16, 2026 59m

Join us as Marian explains what AI governance means for vSphere administrators and why it matters now. Marian walks through practical governance frameworks that vSphere admins need to understand,…

FinOps - What It Is & Why It Matters

Feb 12, 2026 1h

Join us as Peter explores the core principles and practices of FinOps that help organizations optimize cloud spend without slowing innovation. Peter walks through what FinOps really is, why it…

Observability 2.0 - More Than Just Logs, Metrics & Traces

Feb 01, 2026 37m

Join us as Neel explores how observability is evolving beyond traditional logs, metrics, and traces into a predictive, AI-powered discipline. Neel walks through the evolution of Observability,…

Teaching AI to Terraform (So We Don't Have To)

Jan 24, 2026 59m

Join us as Sam demonstrates how to teach AI to write Terraform configurations using Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Sam introduces the Terraform MCP server and walks through practical demos…

Evolution of Tool Use and MCP in Generative AI

Jan 23, 2026 58m

Join us as Gautam breaks down the evolution of tool use in generative AI and dives deep into MCP. Gautam walks through the progression from simple prompt engineering to function calling, structured…

2026 AWS Survey with Peter Sankauskas

Jan 15, 2026 40m

Join the vBrownBag crew and AWS Hero Peter Sankauskas for the 2026 AWS Community Survey 🎯 – your chance to shape the conversation around AWS careers, cloud adoption trends, and emerging technologies.…

Learn Infrastructure-as-Code [the FUN way] through Minecraft

Dec 23, 2025 1h 12m

Join us for the final episode of 2025 as Mark Tinderholt (Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft Azure, HashiCorp Ambassador, and author of "Mastering Terraform") teaches us Infrastructure as Code…

How to Build AI Agents with Strands

Nov 20, 2025 1h 13m

Join Du'An Lightfoot, AI Developer at AWS, as he dives deep into building AI agents with the strands framework. In this technical walkthrough, Du'An demonstrates how to create custom AI coding…

KubeVirt for vSphere Admins with Eric Shanks

Nov 11, 2025 1h 1m

Dive into KubeVirt with the vBrownBag crew and guest Eric Shanks! 🎤 Discover how vSphere admins can bridge their virtualization skills into Kubernetes, exploring practical architecture, live…

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