Learning & teaching networking & AI

Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

Du’An Lightfoot, dev advocate at AWS, joins Justin & Autumn to discuss networking, a knowledge gap people many people have. You can ignore the things you don’t understand or you can invest time to learn it.

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Sponsors:

• Coder.com – Instantly launch fully configured cloud development environments (CDE) and make your first commit in minutes. No need to traverse README files or await onboarding queues. Learn more at Coder.com
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• Bitwarden – Secrets management for developers. Leverage trusted open source technology to securely store and manage infrastructure secrets. Bitwarden empowers developers to safely inject secrets into code and prevent costly data breaches with ease.

Featuring:

• Du'An Lightfoot – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Interview

• cidr CLI
• Reddit post mortem
• Sal Khan TED talk

Llama 3 white paper

• The Llama 3 Herd of Models

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapter

1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. The opener (00:00:52)

3. Sponsor: Coder.com (00:04:42)

https://coder.com/

4. What does a Networking DA do? (00:08:35)

5. Where to learn (00:09:49)

6. Getting into networking (00:11:06)

7. Networking in the cloud (00:12:58)

8. Early VPC mistakes (00:14:24)

9. Take on IPV6 (00:15:40)

10. VPC underside (00:17:52)

11. Bastion hosts role (00:20:01)

12. IVP4 vs IVP6 (00:21:32)

13. Home netwroks (00:23:49)

14. Sider tool (00:25:19)

15. Dorm room network solution (00:26:06)

16. Du'An's AI experience (00:27:06)

17. Structuring data for AI (00:30:14)

18. Sponsor: Fly (00:33:38)

https://fly.io/

19. Glob of AI (00:36:48)

20. Thinking like a dev (00:37:43)

21. Perplexity AI (00:39:10)

22. AI education (00:41:26)

23. Monetizing creator content (00:42:53)

24. Workers unions (00:44:33)

25. Monopolies in tech (00:47:50)

26. How to reach out (00:53:08)

27. Sponsor: Bitwarden (00:54:15)

https://bitwarden.com/secrets

28. The closer (00:57:29)

29. Outro (01:18:40)