
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.
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 312 | Founded | 15 years ago |
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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, Shala, and Damian dig into the Anthropic pricing pl... more
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 the AI era.
Brian walks through his frontline perspect... more
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 upcoming Cloud Code Camp, demos agentic workflows he's b... more
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 requirement, 💬 how to build a T-shaped career that AI can... more
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This podcast provides some wonderful content! The only snag I run into is that some of the videos do not play on my laptop or my phone. Example: VCP-DCV 1&2. I am appreciative of the efforts being made for the benefit and enjoyment of us listeners.
I am preparing for vcap-dca and i feel this podcast gave me enough information to pass the exam.
thanks for the content.
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This show targets IT infrastructure, cloud, and AI practitioners who want practical, hands-on guidance from experienced professionals. Episodes consistently focus on real-world tooling, observability, FinOps, AI governance, local AI deployment, and vendor-neutral best practices, often featuring practitioners who share actionable tips, demos, and war stories from enterprise and community-driven environments. A standout pattern is the emphasis on practical enablement—from running AI locally to building observable, compliant systems—paired with candid discussions about career development in an AI-enabled tech landscape. The format tends to blend technical depth with approachable storytelling, making it useful for engineers, sysadmins, and tech... more
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