Welcome to DevOps with Zack! Hosted by Arshad Zackeriya (Zack), a Platform Engineer, AWS Hero, and AWS User Group Leader based in New Zealand. This podcast breaks down real-world cloud architecture, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and DevSecOps into actionable insights. Whether you are looking for industry best practices, deep dives into the current tech landscape, or practical daily use cases, hit follow to level up your DevOps journey.
Discover how Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling (KEDA) revolutionizes workload management in containerized environments with real-world examples and practical tips.
About the Guest Speaker:
Carlo is a chemical engineer and beer brewer who, after falling in love with tech, made the leap of faith to pursue a career in IT. He works primarily in Cloud Native, Containers, and DevOps space. His advocacy is to write and share how to leverage new technologies in solving real-world problems. He enjoys mentoring and empowering others. Lastly, he enjoys a bottle of beer or hanging out with his kid!
Carlo's blog: https://medium.com/@carlocolumna (https://medium.com/@carlocolumna)
Carlos's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlo-columna/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlo-columna/)
Learn More About KEDA: https://keda.sh/ (https://keda.sh/)
2 Oct 2023
Empowering Hāpori Wāhine: Unveiling the Impact of AWS Community for Women in Tech
Welcome to another riveting episode of 'DevOps with Zack'! In this episode, I have a special guest, Suzana, who is making waves in the tech community of New Zealand with her remarkable contributions. Suzana joins me to share her incredible journey.
Suzana is an AWS User Group Leader in New Zealand, an AWS Community Builder, a certified AWS Cloud Practitioner and the Auckland AWS Tools and Programming meetup group organiser. She is also a FullStack Dev Group Auckland NZ and Cloud Native Auckland co-organiser. Suzana graduated as a Full Stack developer in New Zealand after her 40s, having no previous tech background. She also has a bachelor's in
Communications with over 20 years of experience from Brazil. Passionate for both areas, Software Development and Communications, she actively uses her skills to increase the number of women, minorities and under-represented groups in tech, help graduates and juniors excel in their careers and support projects focused on the tech community's growth.
The article about the challenge of starting:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7110487710972203008/ (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7110487710972203008/)
Suzana's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzanamelomoraes/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzanamelomoraes/)
14 May 2023
Amazon EventBridge Pipes: A New Approach to Event-Driven Architecture
In this podcast, Pubudu will take a deep dive into the benefits of using Amazon EventBridge Pipes, how it works, and why it is a game changer for developers.
About Pubudu:
Pubudu is a senior backend developer at Starred (starred.com (http://starred.com/)) and an AWS Community Builder in Serverless category. In free time, he likes to play around with Serverless services and share his experience about them in social media, tech talks and in blogs.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pubudusj/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pubudusj/)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pubudusj (https://twitter.com/pubudusj)
Medium: https://medium.com/@pubudusj (https://medium.com/@pubudusj)
Dev.to: https://dev.to/pubudusj (https://dev.to/pubudusj)
EventBridge Pipes Articles:
https://medium.com/@pubudusj/split-messages-from-single-sqs-queue-into-multiple-sqs-queues-using-eventbridge-728809342352 (https://medium.com/@pubudusj/split-messages-from-single-sqs-queue-into-multiple-sqs-queues-using-eventbridge-728809342352)
https://medium.com/@pubudusj/self-healing-serverless-app-with-lambda-destinations-and-eventbridge-b548d4554df0 (https://medium.com/@pubudusj/self-healing-serverless-app-with-lambda-destinations-and-eventbridge-b548d4554df0)
18 Feb 2023
The most waited Amazon CodeCatalyst!!
In this episode, Johannes and I talk about the new Amazon CodeCatalyst that was announced at AWS re:Invent 2022.
Johannes is another fantastic AWS Community builder I met at AWS re:Invent 2022. Check out the following links to see what he has published.
Connect with Johannes:
Linked in : https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannes-koch-353b2158/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannes-koch-353b2158/)
Dev.to Articles : https://dev.to/lockhead (https://dev.to/lockhead)
Blog : https://lockhead.info/ (https://lockhead.info/)
Twitter : https://twitter.com/Lockhead (https://twitter.com/Lockhead)
20 Aug 2022
WEB3 Meets DevOps
Nowadays everyone is talking about WEB3. I always had this thought about what WEB3 is and how DevOps can be involved? Luckily I had a chat with my good friend and colleague regarding this matter. After the discussion, I thought of recording a podcast and sharing it with you all.
listen today to understand whats is web3 and how it’ll be used in the future. and more importantly, how can DevOps help the blockchain development to glide through.
About Kalith:
Founding Partner at Metalist and Fitclub. Graduate of North Dakota State University, Bachelors in Computer Science with Magna Cum lade honors. Over 10 years of experience as a serial tech entrepreneur having executed over 50 successful projects and 2 projects in the crypto space.
Connect with Kalith on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/kalith-kumasaru-a1063937 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kalith-kumasaru-a1063937)
Check Kalith’s Awesome Projects :
Metalist : https://metalist.land (https://metalist.land/)
Cyber Fox : https://www.cyberfoxnft.com (https://www.cyberfoxnft.com/)
Check about Alchemy : https://www.alchemy.com/ (https://www.alchemy.com/)
12 Feb 2022
Candy Crush
Alex Radu is a VP Product Adoption and Marketing for Public Cloud at JP Morgan Chase in Glasgow, Scotland the land of the unicorns (it's a thing). Alex is also a speaker, tech community manager and recent graduate of an MSc Computer Science at University of Bath.
She used to work as a conversational developer, software engineer and community manager among other things. Alex is a fervent advocate of diversity in tech and loves to support various communities, like codebar, Aspiring Women Speakers, #IamRemarkable, GitHub Campus Experts, Women Techmakers and more!
In her role, Alex helps bring products and brands to life using community and marketing, as well as acting as a navigator between product, design, engineering and customer teams. This is all supported by data and feedback in all the work she does in the product space and can help reach the adoption and retention goals of the business whilst delighting current and potential customers!
Connect With Alex Radu:
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/maradu/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/maradu/)
Polywork https://polywork.com/alexandrammr (https://polywork.com/alexandrammr)
Twitter https://twitter.com/alexandrammr (https://twitter.com/alexandrammr)
20 Dec 2021
Distributed Systems Observability
Amila is discussing about Distributed Systems Observability. He is a Senior DevOps at Zalando, Germany.
He is Specialised in
Kubernetes
Ansible Automation
Architecting AWS based solutions
Implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines
Implementing deployment pipelines for micro service architectures.
DevOps and Agile practices.
Deep root cause analysis.
LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/amila-kumaranayaka/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/amila-kumaranayaka/)
10 Nov 2021
A Developers Guide To Polyglot Debugging
Had a great discussion with Shai Almog about Polyglot Debugging. Shai Almog is a Developer Advocate at Lightrun. Co-Founder of Codename One. Java Rockstar, Speaker, Author, Blogger and open source hacker. He is a major open source contributor who led key global projects around the world in his 30 year professional career.
Publications : https://www.amazon.com/Create-Uber-Clone-Days-mobile/dp/1983258784 (https://www.amazon.com/Create-Uber-Clone-Days-mobile/dp/1983258784)
Medium : https://medium.com/@Codename_One (https://medium.com/@Codename_One)
GitHub : https://github.com/shai-almog (https://github.com/shai-almog)
18 Oct 2021
Women Who Code
Today's guest speaker is Sewvandi - Undergraduate Trainee @ IFS R&D, an Open Source Enthusiast.
She is Volunteering in:
Women In FOSS Core Representative
President - SLIIT Women In FOSS
Secretary - SLIIT FOSS Board 20/22
Core Volunteer - FOSS Sri Lanka
Her Portfolio - https://sewvandiwickramasinghe-if8nt.ondigitalocean.app
Blog - https://dev.to/sewvandiii
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sewvandi-promodya-wickramasinghe-314a40194
GitHub - https://github.com/Sewvandiii
3 Oct 2021
My Friend's Red Car On The Highway
Today's guest speaker is Chamila Liyanage - Software Architect @ LSEG, Specializing in Microservices & Cloud based Large scale systems design and development. We are talking about some fascinating use cases of DevOps.
Camila's YouTube Channel, Which is really great he did in the Sinhala language.
Kuppiya - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/kuppiyasl)
21 Sept 2021
Enabling DevOps In A Startup
Ravindu is sharing his experience with DevOps transformation in a start-up and the journey of how they enabled DevOps. He is an Associate Technical Leader @ Emojot inc and DevOps and Cloud Computing enthusiast.
Ravindu's Blog : https://medium.com/@RavinduNOnline (https://medium.com/@RavinduNOnline)
12 Sept 2021
The impact of Observability on the Business
Darshan is an awesome Palowan, Crypto Enthusiast. He discuss about the importance of Observability and the impact of Observability on the business. He is a DevOps Consultant in Palo IT Singapore
5 Sept 2021
Your Order From Kubernetes Is Here!
Thulasya is sharing his past experience with one of the leading taxi/food booking app in Sri Lanka about How Kubernetes made their lives easier, how they managed their infrastructure with unexpected loads (such as rainy days )and some of the best practices, he is an Associate Tech Lead at SyscoLabs, also a Kubernetes enthusiast
Medium: https://medium.com/@thulasya (https://medium.com/@thulasya)
GitHub: https://github.com/thulasya (https://github.com/thulasya).
29 Aug 2021
Running out of IOPS in AWS RDS?
Thilina is sharing his one of the recent experience with AWS RDS Write IOPS. How their team identified bottlenecks in a web application that consists of insensitive writing operations while carrying out a benchmarking load test. He is an Associate Technical Lead - Cloud Services at Sysco Labs and a blogger.
Thilina's Medium Link : https://thilinaviraj.medium.com/ (https://thilinaviraj.medium.com/)
14 Aug 2021
DevOps for Data Science
Data science and machine learning are often associated with mathematics, statistics, algorithms and data wrangling. While these skills are core to the success of implementing machine learning in an organization, there is one function that is gaining importance – "DevOps for Data Science." Today we have our special guest - Dilan Jayasekara who started a career as a Software Developer and then changed his career path to Data Science and now currently working as a Data Engineer at Pitcher Partners, Melbourne. About Dilan: Portfolio : www.djayasekara.com (//www.djayasekara.com) Blog : www.jayasekara.blog (//www.jayasekara.blog) Other : www.cestine.com (//www.cestine.com) (Music Data Analysis) Connect with Dilan: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/dilanjayasekara (//www.linkedin.com/in/dilanjayasekara)
13 Aug 2021
How SRE Relates To DevOps
There is a massive misconception about SRE among the DevOps community. Most think it's all about Monitoring the Production. But is it true? Today, we have a special guest, Kanchana Wickremasinghe VP & Product Manager of Choreo Data Plane at WSO2, to discuss how SRE Relates To DevOps.
11 Aug 2021
I’ve Automated My Self Out Of A Job
"The most powerful tool we have as developers is automation." -- Scott Hanselman
When it comes to DevOps we always talk and hear about Automation! Lets Understand what is this Automation and how pivotal in DevOps.
Guest : Shehan Marino, Lead Engineer in (DevOps/Delivery and Infrastructure) at Xero New Zealand
8 Aug 2021
Demystifying DevOps
In the Software Industry there is a misinterpretation about DevOps. Is it tool ? a Service ? a Product ?. Lets Demystify DevOps!
Guest : Nilesh Jayanandana is an Architect at WSO2 Sri Lanka, A visiting part time lecture at SLIIT (Sri Lanka) and a Kubernetes Trainer.
7 Aug 2021
Intro DevOps with Zack
Hello everyone, welcome to the DevOps with Zack podcast. My name is Arshad Zackeriya and I am currently working as a DevOps consultant. I will be delivering some awesome podcasts about the current industry, best practices and daily use cases of DevOps. Follow this podcast for some awesome updates about DevOps.
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