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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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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Recent Guests

Stephen Sennett
AWS hero
Amazon Web Services
Episode: Survive & Thrive: Skills for Techs in 2026 with Stephen Sennett
Du'An Lightfoot
Senior AI engineer at Akamai focused on AI inference
Akamai
Episode: Getting Started with Local AI
Kira Intrator
Based in Switzerland; urban planner and AI for social good practitioner
GOAI; MIT trained; works on AI for policy and development
Episode: AI for Good
Hiroko Nishimura
AWS Hero, educator, and course creator
LinkedIn Learning, AWS Hero
Episode: 700,000 Learners Later: AWS Education Community and What's Changed
Adriana Vilello
Speaker on OTel vendor neutrality and observability
Altenity (observability focus)
Episode: Uncovering the Hard Truth of Vendor Neutrality in OTEL
Amelia Huff Ross
AWS Community Builder; re:Invent participant and speaker
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Episode: Troubleshooting AWS Hallucinations from Vector Store DBs
Peter Crenshaw
FinOps expert with extensive experience in technology investment and cloud spend management.
IEM Manufacturing
Episode: FinOps - What It Is & Why It Matters
Neel Shah
Observability advocate and DevOps community leader
Episode: Observability 2.0 - More Than Just Logs, Metrics & Traces
Gautam Bagel
Technologist and expert in Generative AI, currently working at HashiCorp.
HashiCorp
Episode: Evolution of Tool Use and MCP in Generative AI

Hosts

Chris Williams
Host of vBrownBag, leading interviews and guiding conversations with guests
Shala
Co-host, engages with guests and audience
Damian Carlson
Host of vBrownBag, engages with technical topics and audience
Chris Miller
AWS machine learning hero, contributor to discussions

Reviews

4.7 out of 5 stars from 50 ratings
  • Great w/ a few snags

    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.

    Apple Podcasts
    4
    HybridAK
    United States11 years ago
  • excellent content

    I am preparing for vcap-dca and i feel this podcast gave me enough information to pass the exam.

    thanks for the content.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Shankar Jadapa
    India12 years ago

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The content is particularly useful for those preparing for cloud and AI certifications and hands-on labs.
Listeners praise practical, hands-on content and real-world demos.

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Claude / Codex / Gemini / Open-model Gen AI from Zero with Andrew Brown
Q: In 2026, do you still recommend certifications for learning about AI, and how should they fit with bootcamps?
Certifications are learning posts that help establish baseline knowledge and signal some understanding, but they rarely guarantee a job; hands-on bootcamps and practical projects, especially those that align with real-world workflows and coding harnesses, are more valuable for career advancement.
AI for Good
Q: So what is it that we're doing to fix this today? And more importantly, what can the audience watching this also do to help with AI for Good?
We need to address the systemic mismatches upfront—focus on data quality, governance, and the local context. Individuals can start by helping NGOs clean data and identify immediate use cases, while institutions can invest in data infrastructure, establish data manuals, and build pipelines that translate AI insights into tangible services.
Troubleshooting AWS Hallucinations from Vector Store DBs
Q: Why should people listen to Amelia about this topic, given the experimental and evolving nature of AI data tools?
Amelia shares firsthand, practical experiences from deploying AI with real data in a national lab setting, including the challenges of data preparation, governance, and choosing the right combination of embeddings and models to reduce hallucinations, which provides actionable lessons for practitioners.
AI Governance for Virtualized Infrastructure: What vSphere Admins Need to Know
Q: Are there any lessons that we can take from what they've already done over there regarding the EU AI Act?
One of the lessons learned is timing; educating people on a new act as comprehensive as the EU AI Act was a challenge because of existing compliance fatigue.
AI Governance for Virtualized Infrastructure: What vSphere Admins Need to Know
Q: Can you actually defend that?
Every governance maps back to who owns the AI workload, can you prove what it's doing, and do you have resilience in place?

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What is vBrownBag about and what kind of topics does it cover?

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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2. Du'An Lightfoot
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5. Adriana Vilello
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