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Alastair Cooke

BrownBags are a series of online webinars held using GotoMeeting and covering various datacenter & datacenter Certification topics. These BrownBags are held live at various dates and times a...

Episodes

20 of 90 episodes

Unleashing AI On My Homelab

Join us as Cobus Bernard takes us on a live tour of his sprawling homelab - and explains why Claude wrote most of the Terraform and Ansible...

01:02:41Sep 4, 2026

Responsible AI with Amazon Bedrock

Join us as Faye Ellis breaks down what responsible AI actually looks like in practice on Amazon Bedrock - live demos included, straight from...

01:06:19Jul 21, 2026

AI Observability: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Join us as John Mark Troyer and Rakesh Gupta break down what AI observability actually means once agents leave the demo and hit production -...

01:02:34Jul 13, 2026

Learning New Skills and Languages in the AI Era

Join us as Bob Belderbos breaks down how to actually learn new skills and languages in a world where AI can write the code for you before yo...

01:00:15Jul 10, 2026

Getting Started with Local AI (2/3)

Join us as Du'An digs into the real mechanics of running AI locally and in production - from GPU memory math to multi-agent architectures, o...

00:48:34Jul 6, 2026

AI (for Normal People) with AWS Hero Thorsten Hoger

Join us as Thorsten breaks down how everyday people - small business owners, retirees, hobbyists, and anyone who isn't a developer - can use...

00:52:58Jun 26, 2026

Agentic AI: In The Real World

Join us as Dave walks through what it actually takes to build custom AI agents from scratch - not theory, but real projects he has shipped f...

01:00:35Jun 15, 2026

How to get to AWS re:Invent FOR FREE

Join us as Dale Orders (AWS Community Builder, four-time All Builders Welcome participant from Australia) walks through everything you need...

00:47:49Jun 9, 2026

How to get to AWS re:Invent FOR FREE

Join us as Dale Orders (AWS Community Builder, four-time All Builders Welcome participant from Australia) walks through everything you need...

00:59:11Jun 9, 2026

Trusted Publishing

Join us as Mike Fiedler (AWS Hero, PyPI Safety & Security Engineer, Python Software Foundation) makes the case for eliminating long-lived cr...

00:59:11Jun 9, 2026

Yelling at LLM Costs

AI subscriptions are becoming as essential as internet bills - and just as expensive. The vBrownBag gang takes a hard look at the real cost...

00:56:34May 28, 2026

The AI Dev Skills You Need to Future-Proof Your Career

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...

01:04:22May 26, 2026

Claude / Codex / Gemini / Open-model Gen AI from Zero with Andrew Brown

Andrew Brown (ExamPro) joins the vBrownBag crew to talk Gen AI skills, bootcamps, and whether vibe coding has made "learning to code" irrele...

00:59:54May 10, 2026

Survive & Thrive: Skills for Techs in 2026 with Stephen Sennett

AWS Hero Stephen Sennett joins the vBrownBag crew to argue that foundational knowledge matters more now, not less. 🧠 They dig into why comm...

01:01:33May 9, 2026

Getting Started with Local AI

Join us for Part 1 of a 3-part series as Du'An Lightfoot (Senior AI Engineer at Akamai) breaks down everything you need to know to get start...

01:17:47Apr 21, 2026

AI for Good

Join us as Kira Intrator (MIT-trained urban planner, systems thinker, and social impact technologist based in Geneva) makes the case that AI...

00:37:52Apr 20, 2026

700,000 Learners Later: AWS Education Community and What's Changed

Join us as Hiroko Nishimura (AWS Hero, LinkedIn Learning Instructor, and author of AWS for Non-Engineers) reflects on seven years of teachin...

00:44:51Apr 18, 2026

Uncovering the Hard Truth of Vendor Neutrality in OTEL

Join us as Josh and Adriana call BS on the oversimplified vendor neutrality narrative - because switching observability vendors isn't magic,...

00:50:10Apr 7, 2026

Troubleshooting AWS Hallucinations from Vector Store DBs

Join us as Amelia shares the debugging story nobody tells you about - how her vector store DB couldn't surface specific data until she teste...

00:48:04Mar 5, 2026

AI Agents Made Simple: Everything You Need to Know

Join us as Du'An breaks down AI agents in a way that actually makes sense - what they are, how to use them, and how to get started today. Du...

01:09:21Feb 27, 2026