Angie gives us a crash course on Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how you can get started using it with goose. We also talk about other projects Angie's worked on at Block and what drives her to keep learning new things in tech.LinksAngie's website: https://angiejones.techGoose https://github.com/block/gooseAngie's Modern Day Mashups talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZbXq5qu55U
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Motivated to Learn with Adriana Villela
After 25 years in tech it’s hard not to coast. Adriana has come from writing word docs for the ops team to deploy software, through Devops, and now has a focus on OTel and Kubernetes. How do we get more people from 100 to 400 levels and why is there no content in between? And why we need junior engineers to make our senior engineers better.LinksBluefin wallpapers https://github.com/ublue-os/packages/tree/main/packages/bluefin/wallpapersJustin’s talk with balloons and a spreadsheet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0mWGaBawR8Adriana on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/adrianamvillela.bsky.social
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Recovering from Disaster with Seth Eliot
Disaster recovery is more than automation and infrastructure. There's a lot that goes into your services and some of those things can't be defined as code or automated. When was the last time you restored your database from a backup? How do you use least privileged access when your region changes and how do you even know you're having a disaster. Seth has a lot of experience and a ton of good insights in this episode.LinksSeth’s Linktree https://linktr.ee/setheliotarpio https://arpio.io/services/EKS Auto example repo https://community.aws/content/2sV2SNSoVeq23OvlyHN2eS6lJfa/amazon-eks-auto-mode-enabled-build-your-super-powered-clusterDisaster recovery white paper https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/disaster-recovery-workloads-on-aws/disaster-recovery-workloads-on-aws.htmlDisaster recovery blog series https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/tag/disaster-recovery-series/Ship it! with Pete Naylor https://changelog.com/shipit/127Engineering Resilient Systems on AWS by Jennifer Moran https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Resilient-Systems-AWS-Resilience/dp/1098162420Four Things Everyone Should Know About Resilience https://community.aws/content/2duX45O6vKOE7cmmXQ9Nj3tO3bL/should-know-resilience
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Building a Datacenter with Jake Cooper
Railway wanted to build a better cloud so they started on Google Cloud and ended up building datacenters. Through the burden of success, they figured out there was a lot of things they had to learn and build themselves if they wanted to offer the best cloud experience they could. Jake tells us how they accomplished the move in 9 months, why the built their own orchestrator, and what they’re working on next.Check out Railway at https://railway.com/ and their blog at https://blog.railway.com. Specifically read the post discussed in this episode. https://blog.railway.com/p/data-center-build-part-one
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Staying Curious with Scott Hanselman
You can't grow in technology without learning new things. But sometimes those new things are actually old things. We talk with Scott about a wide range of interests about software, video games, 3D printing, and food. If you want to know why junior engineers are important for your teams you need to listen.Highlights(0:00) What makes good engineers?(12:00) Vibe coding(19:00) Doom scrolling with intention(24:00) Making vs buying(26:00) Praising hard work(30:00) Loss of empathyLinksScott's website: https://www.hanselman.com/Hanselminutes Podcast: https://hanselminutes.com/Scott and Mark Learn to... Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0M0zPgJ3HSf4XZvYgZPUXgSrfzBN26pf
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