Podcasts by Full Stack Journey - Packet Pushers

The Final Journey Of Full Stack Journey from 2023-10-31T15:55:42

The Full Stack Journey is coming to an end. After five years and more than 80 episodes of deeply technical conversations about technologies, tools, and career journeys, this is the final episode...

Full Stack Journey 082: Inside Talos Linux – The Distro Built For Kubernetes from 2023-09-19T13:12:01

Today's Full Stack Journey dives into Talos Linux, a "fit-for-purpose OS" designed for running Kubernetes. Host Scott Lowe speaks with Andrew Rynhard about Talos Linux and Sidero Labs, the compa...

Full Stack Journey 081: Growing Your Application Deployments With Acorn from 2023-08-16T13:08:42

Today's Full Stack Journey digs into the Acorn open source project with Darren Shepherd. Darren and Scott Lowe discuss where Acorn fits into the infrastructure and app development landscape, how...

Full Stack Journey 080: Career Transitions Via Cloud, Infrastructure, And Content Creation With Rishab Kumar from 2023-07-18T16:58:10

Today's Full Stack Journey talks with Rishab Kumar, developer advocate at Twilio. He and Scott Lowe discuss three key things Rishab learned in public cloud, Infrastructure as Code, and creating ...

Full Stack Journey 079: Infrastructure Management With GitOps&Flux With Frank Wiles from 2023-06-13T18:39:35

This Full Stack Journey podcast episode features host Scott Lowe and guest Frank Wiles of REVSYS discussing infrastructure management with GitOps and Flux.

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Full Stack Journey 078: Using pyATS For Network Testing With John Capobianco from 2023-05-16T18:15:58

On today's Full Stack Journey podcast we examine pyATS, a Python testing framework typically used for network testing. Our guest to explain all things pyATS is John Capobianco. John is a Develop...

Full Stack Journey 077: A Career Journey From Finance To InfoSec from 2023-04-18T20:28:56

On today's Full Stack Journey podcast, Scott Lowe talks with Alexandria Leary who left a career as a financial advisor to break into cybersecurity. Alexandria and Scott discuss the reasons why s...

Full Stack Journey 076: Going Deep On Public Key Infrastructure from 2023-03-21T23:14:51

We all use certificates and certificate authorities every day, so in episode 76 Scott takes a deep dive on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) with Linda Ikechuwku of Smallstep Labs. We discuss how ...

Full Stack Journey 075: Authentication’s Role In The Online World from 2023-02-21T21:16:37

Authentication is a key technology that underpins large portions of the online world, and so it's worth exploring in a bit more detail. In this episode of the Full Stack Journey podcast, Scott t...

Full Stack Journey 074: Going The Distance – What Running Can Teach Us About Careers from 2023-01-17T17:15:43

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 a...

Full Stack Journey 073: Finding And Following Technical Passion Projects from 2022-12-13T15:44:25

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 ...

Full Stack Journey 072: A Peek Inside The Comp Sci Ivory Tower from 2022-11-15T16:11:57

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 Pro...

Full Stack Journey 071: Technology Short Takes Audio Edition from 2022-10-18T15:54:33

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 ...

Full Stack Journey 070: A Network Automation Career Journey With Eric Chou from 2022-09-21T12:57:59

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 workin...

Full Stack Journey 069: Network Automation Challenges For Engineers And Organizations from 2022-08-16T14:57:07

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 get...

Full Stack Journey 068: An Introduction To Pixie For Open-Source Kubernetes Observability from 2022-07-26T14:45:08

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 ...

Full Stack Journey 067: What The Heck Is GitOps? from 2022-06-21T14:37:46

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 yo...

Full Stack Journey 066: Five IT Skills To Learn In 2022 from 2022-05-17T16:03:43

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...

Full Stack Journey 065: Developer Tools And Practices Other IT Disciplines Can Adopt from 2022-04-26T14:24:11

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 o...

Full Stack Journey 064: Should You Embrace Chaos Engineering? from 2022-03-15T20:15:13

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...

Full Stack Journey 063: Protecting Your Time And Other Career Advice With Tracy Holmes from 2022-02-15T15:15:37

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 develope...

Full Stack Journey 062: Advice And Recommendations For Tech Learners from 2022-01-18T16:49:35

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...

Full Stack Journey 061: Linux Networking And Observability With eBPF And Cilium from 2021-12-14T14:30:21

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 pod...

Full Stack Journey 060: The Argo Project – Tools To Help You Run Kubernetes from 2021-11-16T15:22:15

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...

Full Stack Journey 059: Composing Event-Driven Applications With TriggerMesh from 2021-10-26T16:09:48

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 ...

Full Stack Journey 058: New Challenges And Embracing Change from 2021-09-21T18:40:39

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 ...

Full Stack Journey 057: Open Policy Agent from 2021-08-17T18:33:32

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 D...

Full Stack Journey 056: Network Automation Progress And Problems from 2021-07-20T16:14

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 wel...

Full Stack Journey 055: Application Migration And Kubernetes from 2021-06-29T19:03:40

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 Kubernete...

Full Stack Journey 054: Changes Big And Small from 2021-05-25T14:38:32

On today's Full Stack Journey podcast, host Scott Lowe shares some personal changes in his life, including leaving VMware for a startup called Kong, selling a house and moving, and buying and us...

Full Stack Journey 053: Exploring Developer Advocacy And Developer Relations from 2021-04-20T19:45:54

Today's Full Stack Journey delves into developer advocacy: what is it, why do organizations have this role, and what makes a good developer advocate? Host Scott Lowe has invited four practitione...

Full Stack Journey 052: Scaling Infrastructure As Code Beyond A Single Engineer from 2021-03-16T14:44:19

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) can work great for a single user, but what happens when lots of people are pushing changes? Scott Lowe and guest Tim Davis talk about the challenges of scaling IaC b...

Full Stack Journey 051: Knowing When It’s Time For A Career Transition from 2021-02-16T21:30:56

Career changes and transitions seem inevitable in technology. When is the right time? How do you know you're ready? Is it a smart move? How do you deal with imposter syndrome? Full Stack Journey...

Full Stack Journey 050: What, Exactly, Is Serverless? from 2021-01-20T13:50:39

Serverless is all the rage these days, but what exactly is it? What does that term mean and what should the technology be used for? Is it the same as Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS)? Consultant Al...

Full Stack Journey 049: Kubernetes Backup And Data Protection With Open-Source Velero from 2020-12-15T15:08:16

Have you developed a backup/restore strategy for your Kubernetes clusters? In this Full Stack Journey episode, we discuss why Kubernetes operators should be planning for backup/restore functiona...

Full Stack Journey 048: Where Is IT Headed In 2021? from 2020-11-30T21:06:19

On today's episode of the Full Stack Journey podcast, host Scott Lowe is joined by fellow Packet Pusher podcast host Drew Conry-Murray for a lively discussion on the trends they see on the horiz...

Full Stack Journey 047: Using Kubernetes And Crossplane To Provision Cloud Infrastructure from 2020-10-20T15:06:37

Today's Full Stack Journey episode explores the Crossplane project, which uses APIs in Kubernetes and public cloud providers to allow you to provision and manage cloud services and infrastructur...

Full Stack Journey 046: Understanding AWS Controllers For Kubernetes (ACK) from 2020-09-22T16:45:51

Today's Full Stack Journey podcast explores AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK). Currently available as a developer preview, the ACK project lets customers manage their AWS services directly fr...

Full Stack Journey 045: Learning To Program In Go from 2020-08-18T19:27:29

The Go programming language is popular among cloud developers. Today's Full Stack Journey podcast brings three guests to the show to talk about their journey learning Go, why it may be valuable ...

Full Stack Journey 044: Skills Development From Engineering To Leadership from 2020-07-21T17:17:02

Patrick Kelso returns to the Full Stack Journey podcast to revisit topics including skills development, being an individual contributor versus a manager/leader, and how life has changed him and ...

Full Stack Journey 043: Lighting Up The Firecracker Project For Serverless Computing from 2020-06-16T14:16:11

Firecracker is an open-source project, launched by AWS, for serverless computing. On today's Full Stack Journey podcast, Michael Hausenblas of AWS joins host Scott Lowe to talk about Firecracker...

Full Stack Journey 042: How An IT Specialist Chooses Adjacent Competencies from 2020-05-19T19:24:30

David Klee is a SQL database expert, but he's also knowledgeable about virtualization, networking, and infrastructure. In today's Full Stack Journey podcast, host Scott Lowe talks with David abo...

Full Stack Journey 041: Talos Builds An Open-Source OS For Kubernetes from 2020-04-21T13:50:45

Today's Full Stack Journey examines the Talos open source project, which is aimed at building a fit-for-purpose OS designed expressly for running Kubernetes. My guests are Tim Gerla and Andrew R...

Full Stack Journey 040: Learning To Work From Home from 2020-03-24T14:31:09

A panel of guests share tips, tools, and best practices for working from home in the latest episode of Full Stack Journey. Host Scott Lowe speaks to Puja Abbassi, Lisa Caywood, Simon Crosby, and...

Full Stack Journey 039: Career Transitions And Finding A Gap To Be An Expert With Lauren Malhoit from 2020-02-21T18:03:59

Today's Full Stack Journey episode features Lauren Malhoit. Lauren came up in the tech industry as a systems engineer. She's now in technical product marking at Juniper Networks. Lauren and Scot...

Full Stack Journey 038: Exploring Kubernetes And The Contour Project With Steve Sloka from 2020-01-21T19:47:51

Today's Full Stack Journey episode explores Contour, an an Envoy-based Kubernetes Ingress controller. My guest is Steve Sloka. In addition to Contour, we also talk about Steve's journey into Doc...

Full Stack Journey 037: The Influence Of Open Source In A Tech Career With Matt Broberg from 2019-12-17T17:50:45

Open source software has had a significant influence on the tech career of today's Full Stack Journey podcast guest, Matt Broberg. We discuss why open source has been so influential, the importa...

Full Stack Journey 036: Starting Your IT Career With Kori Younger from 2019-11-26T21:09:32

Today's Full Stack Journey goes back to the beginning with an IT pro just getting started in her career. Kori Younger is a recent college graduate planning on a career in IT. She and Scott talk ...

Full Stack Journey 035: Testing And Validation For Infrastructure As Code from 2019-10-29T16:15:40

Today's episode of Full Stack Journey focuses on the benefits of testing and validation for Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC). We discuss types of testing, available tools, and why IaC has value even...

Full Stack Journey 034: Choosing Your Own Adventure from 2019-09-24T18:00

If you've ever thought about working for yourself, catch this episode of the Full Stack Journey. Guest Ned Bellavance discusses his decision to leave a job as an IT consultant to become an indep...

Full Stack Journey 033: Transitioning From Engineering To Product Management from 2019-07-16T14:36:18

Scott Lowe talks with Yasmin Rajabi about her move from an engineering role to product management, including why she made the transition, the technical skills that translated to her new role, wh...

Full Stack Journey 032: Lyra Vs. Terraform – Meet The New Kid In Cloud Native Infrastructure Provisioning from 2019-06-18T16:20:11

Lyra is the latest infrastructure-as-code project to tackle the provisioning of cloud resources. On today's Full Stack Journey, guest and Lyra contributor Eric Sorenson explains how Lyra works, ...

Full Stack Journey 031: Using Bolt For Task Automation With Yasmin Rajabi from 2019-05-14T13:00:29

Let's meet Bolt, an open-source automation/orchestration tool originally developed by Puppet. Today's Full Stack Journey dives into how the tool works, the problems it solves, how it's similar t...

Full Stack Journey 030: Building Cloud-Native Infrastructure As Code With Pulumi from 2019-04-02T14:05:35

Pulumi is a tool for building cloud-native infrastructure as code using general-purpose programming languages. Luke Hoban, CTO of Pulumi, joins Scott Lowe on the Full Stack Journey podcast to ch...

Full Stack Journey 029: The Ballerina Programming Language With Anjana Fernando from 2019-03-01T22:05:51

Today's Full Stack Journey podcast dances with Ballerina, a cloud-native programming language introduced by WSO2. My guest is Anjana Fernando, who has been involved in Ballerina since its incept...

Full Stack Journey 028: Turning The Mic On Scott Lowe from 2018-12-18T18:49:43

Today's Full Stack Journey episode puts host Scott Lowe in the guest chair to share his own sojourns through the IT stacks.

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Full Stack Journey 027: Understanding Infrastructure As Code And Terraform With Curt Micol from 2018-11-27T15:29:21

Infrastructure as code treats your infrastructure like software objects. Terraform is a tool that applies this concept to automating the configuration of large-scale systems. On today's Full Sta...

Full Stack Journey 026: Charting The Course Of Network Transformation With Lindsay Hill from 2018-10-23T14:33:11

On today's Full Stack Journey podcast, guest Lindsay Hill discusses major transformations in the network industry, and how IT professionals can understand, adapt, and thrive amidst these changes...

Full Stack Journey 025: How To Embrace Network Evolution With Andrew Hrycaj from 2018-09-25T14:21:51

Today's Full Stack Journey explores the evolution of networking technology and how it affects engineers. Guest Andrew Hrycaj discuss where the industry is going, personal skill development, get...

Full Stack Journey 023: The Future Of Security With James Holland from 2018-07-17T19:25:42

Today's Full Stack Journey podcast peers into the future of security with guest James Holland. We talk about how security is moving up the stack, the use of automation, and what non-security fol...

Full Stack Journey 022: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) With Michael Kehoe from 2018-06-20T19:24:17

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is the topic for the latest Full Stack Journey podcast. Guest Michael Kehoe explores SRE, its relationship w/ DevOps, essential skills, and more.

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Full Stack Journey 021: Continual Learning With Cody Bunch from 2018-05-16T23:08:48

Today's Full Stack Journey explores continual learning for technologists. Guest Cody Bunch shares tips on how to approach new information, why you should share what you learn, how to take notes,...

Full Stack Journey 020: Jason Edelman And Network Automation from 2018-04-18T18:48:57

ason Edelman is my guest on the Full Stack Journey, where we talk about his transition from a traditional network engineer to focus on automation.

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Full Stack Journey 019: Getting Inside Microsoft Azure from 2018-03-20T13:20:28

The Full Stack Journey explores how the cloud drives IT pros to cultivate both developer and infrastructure skills, and provides an introduction to Microsoft's Azure platform.

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Full Stack Journey 018: Istio, Envoy&Service Meshes from 2018-02-13T16:56:16

Today's Full Stack Journey dives into Istio, Envoy & service meshes with guest Shannon McFarland.

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Full Stack Journey 017: Kubernetes&Orchestration With Sebastien Goasguen from 2018-01-16T15:27:38

The Full Stack Journey podcast dives into Kubernetes, the orchestration platform that's taking the container world by storm. Guest Sebastien Goasguen explores the origins of Kubernetes and discu...

Full Stack Journey 016: George Miranda, Service Meshes&Linkerd from 2017-12-12T14:57:43

The Full Stack Journey podcast tackles service meshes and Linkerd. Joining to help explain is George Miranda from Buoyant.io.

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Full Stack Journey 015: J Metz from 2017-11-07T15:49:55

Full Stack Journey 15 features the ever-informative Dr. J Metz. We talk about storage, technology changes in storage, and what these changes mean for IT professionals.

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Full Stack Journey 014: Robert Kloosterhuis from 2017-10-17T14:57:17

The Full Stack Journey continues with guest Robert Kloosterhuis (a.k.a The Fluffy Admin), who joins Scott to discuss finding a balance between hands-on experience and broader knowledge.

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Full Stack Journey 013: Chris Wahl from 2017-07-25T13:30:01

Chris Wahl relates his ongoing Full Stack Journey, including stops along the way for PowerShell and Git, as well as the newest directions where his technology compass leads him.

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Full Stack Journey 012: Bob Stampfle from 2017-06-20T15:07:48

People and processes are the topics for this Full Stack Journey podcast episode with guest Bob Stampfle.

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Full Stack Journey 011: Anthony Burke from 2017-05-30T18:17:46

The Full Stack Journey explores practical network automation, including tips for getting started and for self-motivation, with guest Anthony Burke.

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Full Stack Journey 010: Alex Galbraith from 2017-05-12T16:44:59

This Full Stack Journey episode focuses on expanding your knowledge of and skill with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Our special guest is Alex Galbraith.

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Full Stack Journey 009: Jake Robinson from 2017-05-11T20:53:33

This episode of the Full Stack Journey centers on automation, why automation is important, and how to get started. My guest is Jake Robinson, an automation specialist at VMware.

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Full Stack Journey 008: Ivan Pepelnjak from 2017-05-10T21:59:22

Full Stack Journey episode 8 features Ivan Pepelnjak, well-known author, blogger, podcaster, and speaker. Ivan produces a phenomenal amount of content around networking and adjacent technologies...

Full Stack Journey 007: Ed Horley from 2017-05-09T14:09:08

On today's episode my guest is Ed Horley, who leads the cloud practice team for a Silicon Valley VAR. Ed may better be known as the “IPv6 dude” but today he’s talking about the business awarenes...

Full Stack Journey 006: A Quick Review from 2017-05-05T17:57:28

Episode 6 of the Full Stack Journey pauses the interviews to take a little time to review & reflect on the first five shows.

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Full Stack Journey 005: Patrick Kelso from 2017-05-03T21:22:36

Episode #5 of the Full Stack Journey Podcast features Patrick Kelso, an independent consultant who works in the UNIX/virtualization/cloud space.

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Full Stack Journey 004: Brent Salisbury from 2017-05-02T19:55:48

Brent Salisbury is today's guest on Full Stack Journey. As someone who transitioned from network engineer to software developer, Brent is ideally suited to share his experiences.

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Full Stack Journey 002: Matt Oswalt from 2017-04-28T18:57:04

The Full Stack Journey talks with Matt Oswalt about the intersection of network infrastructure, software development, and automation.

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Full Stack Journey 001: Bart Smith from 2017-04-27T14:39:45

On today's Full Stack Journey podcast, Bart Smith shares some details about his journey from being a Microsoft-centric infrastructure engineer to what he calls a cloud-native full stack engineer...