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The Journey To Full Stack - Interview Series with Scott Lowe

Full Stack Journey tells personal stories about the ongoing quest to become a full stack engineer: an IT pro who can move among multiple silos and work across multiple layers of the modern data center.

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Full Stack Journey 077: A Career Journey From Finance To InfoSec

On today’s Full Stack Journey podcast, Scott Lowe talks with Alexandria Leary who left a career as a financial advisor to break into cybersecurity. Alexandria and Scott discuss the reasons why she changed careers, and provide some information and resources useful for others who are seeking to find a career in cybersecurity.

Full Stack Journey 076: Going Deep On Public Key Infrastructure

We all use certificates and certificate authorities every day, so in episode 76 Scott takes a deep dive on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) with Linda Ikechuwku of Smallstep Labs. We discuss how PKI and certificates work, revocation options, pros and cons of DIY PKI, and more.

Full Stack Journey 074: Going The Distance – What Running Can Teach Us About Careers

On today’s Full Stack Podcast, Scott is joined by Krithika Chandramouli, a software engineer at Meta, to discuss how the lessons she learned while preparing to run her first-ever half-marathon also apply to careers. They dive into the relationship between consistency and one’s progress toward a goal, and how understanding the “why” behind a goal can help motivate you.

Full Stack Journey 073: Finding And Following Technical Passion Projects

Today’s Full Stack Journey podcast welcomes software engineer Kat Morgan to discuss finding and following passion projects—which for Kat include KubeVirt and UOR Framework. Scott and Kat have a technical and entertaining conversation about how pursuing passion projects can inform, shape, and create career opportunities.

Full Stack Journey 072: A Peek Inside The Comp Sci Ivory Tower

On today’s Full Stack Journey podcast we climb the ivory tower to get a glimpse of academic life in the field of networking and computer science with guest Dave Levin. Dr. Levin is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland. His research focuses on networking and security, including measurement, cryptography, artificial intelligence, and economics.

Full Stack Journey 071: Technology Short Takes Audio Edition

Today on the Full Stack Journey podcast, host Scott Lowe tries something new with an audio version of his Technology Short Takes blog series. Scott takes three career-focused articles, shares a brief summary of the article, and then discusses the article in a little bit of depth.

Full Stack Journey 070: A Network Automation Career Journey With Eric Chou

On today’s Full Stack Journey podcast we welcome guest Eric Chou, an author, educator, and network engineer. From traditional network engineering to the birth of “cloud” at Amazon and now working to share his knowledge via blog posts, videos, books, and classes, Eric shares lessons learned on his career journey.

Full Stack Journey 067: What The Heck Is GitOps?

What, exactly, it GitOps? It seems like a new “Ops” word pops up every week! On today’s Full Stack Journey podcast, guest Christian Hernandez of Codefresh explains GitOps, what it is, and how you can get started using it.

Full Stack Journey 066: Five IT Skills To Learn In 2022

Drew Conry-Murray and Du’An Lightfoot discuss essential skills for IT professionals in 2022. They include learning to code, learning Linux, and sharing your journey. This topic was inspired by a Tweet thread Du’An recently posted. We also talk about the role of content creation such as blogging and videos to enhance your own learning and advance your career. Du’An is a Sr. Cloud Networking Developer Advocate at AWS Cloud. You may know Du’An from his work as the creator behind LabEveryday, where he posts blogs and videos on technical topics and professional development. You can follow him on Twitter at @labeveryday.

Full Stack Journey 064: Should You Embrace Chaos Engineering?

Maybe you’ve heard of chaos engineering, and you’re curious about what it is. This episode will help you understand! Joining Scott for the Full Stack Journey is Cwen (Chengwen) Yin, a co-founder of the Chaos Mesh project. We define chaos engineering, discuss what it’s supposed to accomplish, cover the major components of Chaos Mesh, and more.

Full Stack Journey 062: Advice And Recommendations For Tech Learners

The Full Stack Journey is back for 2022, and kicking off the year Scott shares recommendations for learning new technologies based on his own career experiences and the technology transitions he’s lived through, including virtualization to networking and networking to containers. Scott also shares four key takeaways for learners in the tech industry.

Full Stack Journey 061: Linux Networking And Observability With eBPF And Cilium

eBPF has taken the Linux networking world by storm. But what is it, exactly? And how it is related to the open-source Cilium project? Duffie Cooley joins Scott Lowe on the Full Stack Journey podcast to discuss eBPF and Cilium. If you’re into Linux, networking, or Kubernetes—or any combination of these—this episode is for you!

Full Stack Journey 058: New Challenges And Embracing Change

In episode 58 of the Full Stack Podcast, Scott talks to Nick Korte about a change that happened with his own podcast, The Nerd Journey. What lessons did Nick learn from this change, and how can those lessons be applied to careers in general? Scott and Nick’s conversation uncovers some true gems of career advice.

Full Stack Journey 057: Open Policy Agent

What is Open Policy Agent (OPA)? And what can someone do with it? These are some of the questions that episode 57 of the Full Stack Journey podcast tackles. In this episode, Scott is joined by Diego Comas (@diegocomas on Twitter), a user/consumer of OPA, to discuss his direct experience in using OPA in real production environments.

Full Stack Journey 056: Network Automation Progress And Problems

What’s the latest with network automation? Where is the industry getting things right, and where is there more work to be done? How is public cloud influencing network automation? Scott Lowe welcomes Ethan Banks to the Full Stack Journey podcast for an update on the state of automation in networking.