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On today's Full Stack Podcast, Scott is joined by Krithika Chandramouli, a software engineer at Meta, to discuss how the lessons she learned while preparing to run her first-ever half-marathon also apply to careers. They dive into the relationship between consistency and one's progress toward a goal, and how understanding the "why" behind a goal can help motivate you. The post Full Stack Journey 074: Going The Distance – What Running Can Teach Us About Careers appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today's Full Stack Journey podcast welcomes software engineer Kat Morgan to discuss finding and following passion projects---which for Kat include KubeVirt and UOR Framework. Scott and Kat have a technical and entertaining conversation about how pursuing passion projects can inform, shape, and create career opportunities. The post Full Stack Journey 073: Finding And Following Technical Passion Projects appeared first on Packet Pushers.

On today's Full Stack Journey podcast we climb the ivory tower to get a glimpse of academic life in the field of networking and computer science with guest Dave Levin. Dr. Levin is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland. His research focuses on networking and security, including measurement, cryptography, artificial intelligence, and economics. The post Full Stack Journey 072: A Peek Inside The Comp Sci Ivory Tower appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today on the Full Stack Journey podcast, host Scott Lowe tries something new with an audio version of his Technology Short Takes blog series. Scott takes three career-focused articles, shares a brief summary of the article, and then discusses the article in a little bit of depth. The post Full Stack Journey 071: Technology Short Takes Audio Edition appeared first on Packet Pushers.

On today's Full Stack Journey podcast we welcome guest Eric Chou, an author, educator, and network engineer. From traditional network engineering to the birth of "cloud" at Amazon and now working to share his knowledge via blog posts, videos, books, and classes, Eric shares lessons learned on his career journey. The post Full Stack Journey 070: A Network Automation Career Journey With Eric Chou appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today's Full Stack Journey podcast explores the barriers to network automation that individuals and organizations face. We also discuss how network engineers can overcome the inertia of just getting started, skills development tips, and more. Our guests are Matt Oswalt and Christian Adell. The post Full Stack Journey 069: Network Automation Challenges For Engineers And Organizations appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today's Full Stack Journey podcast is all about Pixie, an "open source observability tool for Kubernetes applications." Pixie takes advantage of eBPF to capture telemetry data. Joining Scott to provide a beginner-level overview of Pixie is Fabian Ngala. The post Full Stack Journey 068: An Introduction To Pixie For Open-Source Kubernetes Observability appeared first on Packet Pushers.

What, exactly, it GitOps? It seems like a new "Ops" word pops up every week! On today's Full Stack Journey podcast, guest Christian Hernandez of Codefresh explains GitOps, what it is, and how you can get started using it. The post Full Stack Journey 067: What The Heck Is GitOps? appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Drew Conry-Murray and Du’An Lightfoot discuss essential skills for IT professionals in 2022. They include learning to code, learning Linux, and sharing your journey. This topic was inspired by a Tweet thread Du'An recently posted. We also talk about the role of content creation such as blogging and videos to enhance your own learning and advance your career. Du'An is a Sr. Cloud Networking Developer Advocate at AWS Cloud. You may know Du’An from his work as the creator behind LabEveryday, where he posts blogs and videos on technical topics and professional development. You can follow him on Twitter at @labeveryday. The post Full Stack Journey 066: Five IT Skills To Learn In 2022 appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today's Full Stack Journey asks: Are there tools, techniques, or practices common to software development that other IT disciplines should consider adopting? Can these tools and practices help other IT disciplines improve automation, operations, and daily tasks? Guests Adeel Ahmad and Kurt Seifried join host Scott Lowe to discuss. The post Full Stack Journey 065: Developer Tools And Practices Other IT Disciplines Can Adopt appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Maybe you've heard of chaos engineering, and you're curious about what it is. This episode will help you understand! Joining Scott for the Full Stack Journey is Cwen (Chengwen) Yin, a co-founder of the Chaos Mesh project. We define chaos engineering, discuss what it's supposed to accomplish, cover the major components of Chaos Mesh, and more. The post Full Stack Journey 064: Should You Embrace Chaos Engineering? appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today's Full Stack Journey podcast explores an IT career journey with guest Tracy Holmes. Tracy shares lessons she's learned on an IT voyage that includes engineering, data centers, and developer advocacy. Lessons include how to protect your time, why it's useful to say no sometimes, and the importance of learning how to learn. The post Full Stack Journey 063: Protecting Your Time And Other Career Advice With Tracy Holmes appeared first on Packet Pushers.

The Full Stack Journey is back for 2022, and kicking off the year Scott shares recommendations for learning new technologies based on his own career experiences and the technology transitions he's lived through, including virtualization to networking and networking to containers. Scott also shares four key takeaways for learners in the tech industry. The post Full Stack Journey 062: Advice And Recommendations For Tech Learners appeared first on Packet Pushers.

eBPF has taken the Linux networking world by storm. But what is it, exactly? And how it is related to the open-source Cilium project? Duffie Cooley joins Scott Lowe on the Full Stack Journey podcast to discuss eBPF and Cilium. If you're into Linux, networking, or Kubernetes---or any combination of these---this episode is for you! The post Full Stack Journey 061: Linux Networking And Observability With eBPF And Cilium appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today's Full Stack Journey podcast delves into the open-source Argo project, a collection of tools to help ops team use Kubernetes. Our guest is Hong Wang. He's an Argo maintainer and co-founder and CEO of Akuity, a for-profit company built around Argo. The post Full Stack Journey 060: The Argo Project – Tools To Help You Run Kubernetes appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today on the Full Stack Podcast we dive into TriggerMesh, an open-source platform for putting together event-driven applications. It's built on Kubernetes. Scott Lowe speaks with co-founder and CEO Mark Hinkle. The post Full Stack Journey 059: Composing Event-Driven Applications With TriggerMesh appeared first on Packet Pushers.

In episode 58 of the Full Stack Podcast, Scott talks to Nick Korte about a change that happened with his own podcast, The Nerd Journey. What lessons did Nick learn from this change, and how can those lessons be applied to careers in general? Scott and Nick's conversation uncovers some true gems of career advice. The post Full Stack Journey 058: New Challenges And Embracing Change appeared first on Packet Pushers.

What is Open Policy Agent (OPA)? And what can someone do with it? These are some of the questions that episode 57 of the Full Stack Journey podcast tackles. In this episode, Scott is joined by Diego Comas (@diegocomas on Twitter), a user/consumer of OPA, to discuss his direct experience in using OPA in real production environments. The post Full Stack Journey 057: Open Policy Agent appeared first on Packet Pushers.

What's the latest with network automation? Where is the industry getting things right, and where is there more work to be done? How is public cloud influencing network automation? Scott Lowe welcomes Ethan Banks to the Full Stack Journey podcast for an update on the state of automation in networking. The post Full Stack Journey 056: Network Automation Progress And Problems appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Are application migrations still a thing in the cloud-native world? In this episode of the Full Stack Journey podcast, host Scott Lowe is joined by Nicholas Lane, Staff Engineer on the Kubernetes platform team at Wayfair, to discuss application migrations in a Kubernetes environment. The post Full Stack Journey 055: Application Migration And Kubernetes appeared first on Packet Pushers.