Jon Cline, who joins to talk about the People First Method, is a Salesforce architect and soft-skill coach. Main Points Links Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL The post 106. The People First Method | Jon Cline appeared first on SalesforceWay.By Xi Xiao

Robert Söesemann, who joins to share about Salesforce & AI from the trenches, is a Salesforce principle architect, and Salesforce MVP. Main Points Links Video Teaser The post 104. Salesforce & AI from the trenches | Robert Söesemann appeared first on SalesforceWay.By Xi Xiao

In this episode Mike sums up the most common career advice over the past 4 years and explains what's up next for him in his own career journey. You can subscribe to Mike's new YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuoEOqepPoBrnpL5C3P6EhgBy Mike Pfeiffer

In this episode Mike catches up with Thomas Stringer to discuss Linux, Kubernetes, and Open Source Development. Thomas is a Principal Software Engineer Lead working on Open Source at Microsoft. Follow Thomas on these channels: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trstringer/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/tr_stringer Personal Website: https://trstri…

In this episode Mike chats with the team at Apex Systems about Hiring Top Talent in 2022. Hiring tips for managers (Apex Systems): https://www.apexsystems.com/careers/career-resources?crt=73 Erica Woods - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericawoods - Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericawoodsgo Cameron Buck - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in…

In this episode Mike Pfeiffer chats with Richard Hooper about working with Kubernetes, learning Azure, and what customers are dealing with when moving towards cloud native. Richard Hooper LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/%E2%98%81-richard-hooper-598a1412/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Pixel_Robots Website: https://pixelrobots.co.uk YouTube (Azu…

In this episode Mike Pfeiffer chats with Taylor Dolezal about the importance of community in tech. Taylor specializes in Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud, and distributed systems, and currently serves as Head of Ecosystem at the CNCF. In this episode we talk about: Taylor’s career origin story as a developer, systems engineer, and technology advocate w…

In this episode Mike Pfeiffer catches up with Matt Davis about Web3, NFTs, and Startup Culture. Matt is a Developer Advocate for 3Box Labs and previously worked at GitHub. Follow Matt Davis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattdavis0351 Connect with Matt Davis on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewdavisit/ Check out Ceramic Network: https:…

In this episode Mike Pfeiffer chats with Andrew Brown recently who's an expert in all things Cloud, DevOps, Data, ML, Security, K8s and Serverless. In this episode, we talk about... How to build the skills you need to survive in a multi-cloud world Why hands-on skills are important now more than ever before Bleeding edge tech including Cloud Native…

In this episode Mike catches up with Kevin Evans, Azure Customer Engineer at Microsoft, about how to build your Azure cloud career. Kevin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheKevinEvans Kevin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinevans01/By Kevin Evans, Mike Pfeiffer

In this episode Mike catches up with Kit Merker, Chief Operating Officer at Nobl9, about Site Reliability Engineering and implementing effective Service Level Objectives (SLOs). Kit on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kitmerker Kit on Twitter https://twitter.com/KitMerker SLOConf https://www.sloconf.com…

In this episode Mike Pfeiffer chats with Wayne McCulloch, Chief Customer Officer at WalkMe, to discuss reinventing training and education. Connect with Wayne on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waynemcculloch The Seven Pillars of Customer Success: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0921XBHWG WalkMe - Digital Adoption Platform: https://www.walk…

In this episode Mike Pfeiffer chats with Andrew Wertkin, Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at BlueCat, about cloud strategy and tactics, along with leadership and mentoring. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvE2swZJAes Follow Andrew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/awertkin Connect with Andrew on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/awe…

In this episode Mike Pfeiffer chats with Kevin Hoffman, author of Programming Web Assembly with Rust and CTO of Cosmonic. Follow Kevin on twitter: https://twitter.com/KevinHoffman Check out Kevin's book: https://amzn.to/3faH92m Check out wasmCloud: https://wasmcloud.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/wasmCloud/ Check out Cosmonic: https://cosmonic.com/…

In this episode Mike Pfeiffer catches up with Rishab Kumar about his journey into the cloud and how he has climbed his way up from Help Desk to DevOps engineer. Rishab's website: https://rishabkumar.com/ Rishab on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rishabk7 Rishab on GitHub: https://github.com/rishabkumar7 learntocloud - 6 month guide to the fundamentals…

In this episode Mike chats with Roger Wahman, CTO at Apex Consulting, and Darin Stevenson, Director of Strategic Solutions and Technical Recruiting at Apex Systems. Learn about the trends Roger and Darin are seeing across their client base and learn about the in-demand skills that cloud professionals should be picking up in 2022. Learn more about A…

In this episode Mike catches up with Robert Hodges, CEO of Altinity, to discuss data warehouses such as ClickHouse, Big Data, and Kubernetes. Follow Robert on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/berkeleybob2105/ OSA CON 2021 https://altinity.com/osa-con-2021/ Fully Managed ClickHouse in the Public Cloud https://altinity.com/…

In this episode Mike chats with Chris Hughes, CISO and Co-Founder of Aquia, to discuss cloud security lessons and pitfalls. Follow Chris on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-h-97680442/ Check out the Resilient Cyber Podcast https://www.linkedin.com/company/resilient-cyber-podcast/By Chris Hughes, Mike Pfeiffer

In this episode Mike chats with John Grange, CTO and Founder of OpsCompass. John shares his journey and how he keeps his skills currently while running a startup. Follow John on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jmgrange Follow John on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-grange-190ba652/ OpsCompass: Visibility, multi-cloud security, cost manageme…

Aidan Harding, who joins to talk about Object-Oriented Thinking, is a senior developer and Technology Director at Nebula Consulting Ltd. Main Points OO language in the 1990s SOLID principles Inheritance and composition Refactoring Talking about “reusing the code is not the reason to break things into objects” OO construction Related resources Links…

In this episode I catch up with John Lunn (aka jonnychipz) about building up your cloud skills and how to start mapping out your career strategy. Subscribe to John's Channel https://www.youtube.com/cloudtalkwithjonnychipz Follow John on Twitter https://twitter.com/jonnychipz Follow John on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/japlunn/…

In this episode Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza is back on the show to talk about her journey into cloud advocacy and joining Microsoft. She also shares a ton of tips for anyone getting into the game of producing content. Follow Gwyn on Twitter https://twitter.com/madebygps Check out Gwyn's GitHub for resources mentioned on the show: https://github.com/madeb…

The past couple years have been tough on all of us. Here are 3 things you can lean on when you're not feeling it. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSapGWLGGdQBy Mike Pfeiffer

Julian Joseph, who joins to talk about Salesforce Quality Engineer topic, is a Salesforce Quality Architect, Senior Salesforce QA. Julian has tremendous experience in Quality Engineering, Test Automation, and the DevOps area. Main Points Julian’s self-introduction What does Julian do in Salesforce What does the quality team do in Salesforce The imp…

In this episode Mike chats with Derek Smith about Cloud Evangelism, Getting started on Social Media & Managing the Chaos. Follow Derek on Social Media https://linktr.ee/considerclouddsBy Derek Smith, Mike Pfeiffer

In this episode Mike Pfeiffer catches up with Tim Davis to discuss DevOps Advocacy and how to build your personal brand while you study. Follow Tim on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vtimd Check out Env0: https://www.youtube.com/c/envZer https://www.env0.com/ Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izChYG4AQTM…

How do you invent or reinvent your career in a way that helps you succeed on the most progressive teams in the world? In this episode Mike Pfeiffer shares tips on how to think about your cloud career for the long term, even if you haven't started yet. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpI8JTuF98w…

Should you hang on to your technical skills or consider going into management as you move through your career in the cloud? I'm sharing my thoughts on this episode along with 3 tips you should consider to help make the decision.By Mike Pfeiffer

My guest this week is fellow MVP Tim Warner, and we'll be talking about the new AZ-700 exam and how you can become an Azure Certified Network Engineer. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfsgmnE-sHk Check out our AZ-700 course: https://cloudskills.io/courses/az-700By Mike Pfeiffer, Tim Warner

In this live stream we're catching up with Tim Warner, Microsoft MVP, Microsoft MCT Regional Lead, Pluralsight staff author, and legendary Azure solution architect about keeping up with all things Azure. Follow Tim on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TechTrainerTimBy Michael Levan, Mike Pfeiffer, Tim Warner

Alba Rivas, who joins to talk about LWC for VisualForce Developers, is the Lead Developer Advocate at Salesforce, former Salesforce MVP and dreamOlé organizer, 9x Certified. Main Points The resource collection on this topic (a sample app, 3 trailhead modules, and the webinar series in English & Spanish) How to leverage Low-code tools in LEX to repl…

In this episode Mike Pfeiffer catches up with Tristan Morel L'Horset, Senior Managing Director at Accenture. Tristan is the Growth lead of Accenture's North America Cloud First business and he has a passion for the intersection of Cloud, Technology and Business. Here's what we cover in this episode: Overcoming barriers to cloud adoption Technical a…

In this episode we catch up with Jack Naglieri, Founder & CEO at Panther Labs, and we're chatting about detecting and responding to security breaches in the cloud. Check out Panther Labs https://runpanther.io/ Follow Jack on Twitter https://twitter.com/jack_naglieriBy Michael Levan, Jack Naglieri, Mike Pfeiffer

In this episode we're catching up with Don Jones, Head of Software Developer Skills at Pluralsight, about building your cloud career. Don's new book: https://www.manning.com/books/own-your-tech-career Don's new club: https://ampere.clubBy Michael Levan, Mike Pfeiffer, Don Jones

Douglas Brown interviews Michail Maridakis, Product Manager, and Catherine Gallagher, Product Marketing Manager. Catherine, Michail, and Douglas discuss the new IGEL UD7 hardware for IGEL OS, what news, how it compares to the previous UD6 and UD7 models, some tech specs, use cases, and much more! About IGEL UD7 - The High-Performance Endpoint Devic…

In this live recording of the CloudSkills FM podcast we're catching up with Thomas Maurer from Microsoft about all things Azure Arc and Cloud Governance. In this episode we discuss: Azure Arc Azure Cloud Adoption Framework How to Stay Current with Certifications What you should focus on learning Check out Thomas' blog: https://www.thomasmaurer.ch…

In this live recording of the CloudSkills.fm podcast Michael Levan chats with Luke Orellana about testing with Terraform 0.15. In this episode we talk about: Infrastructure-as-Code security Securing Terraform code Terraform security for the enterprise Infrastructure-as-Code security concerns Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/wa…

Have you ever wanted to give a talk or a presentation but weren't sure where to start? In this episode Mike Pfeiffer shares his best tips for public speaking, teaching online, and recording podcasts and online courses... Plus, Mike Pfeiffer and Michael Levan share their entire gear list, which is one of the most common questions they've gotten over…

In this live recording of the CloudSkills.fm podcast we're talking all things Cloud Adoption & Strategy with Chris Nicholas, Managing Director of Cloud Solutions at Trace3. Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ Chris Nicholas, Managing Director, Cloud Solutions Group at Trace3 https://w…

Christian Menzinger, who joins to talk about User Interface API, is a self-employed Germany-based Salesforce developer, trainer, Salesforce MVP, Community leader. Main Points What is the User Interface API? What problem does it solve? How is it in use before and in LWC? Examples of usage scenarios and sample code Links Christian’s Twitter Christian…

In this episode Mike catches up with HashiCorp Ambassadors Ned Bellavance, Michael Levan, and Luke Orellana to discuss all things Infrastructure as Code. Which tools and services are people using, what are the pitfalls, and how do you get started? We answer these questions, plus more from a live audience.…

Michael is chatting today with Eamonn O’Neill, the founder and EVP at Lemongrass Consulting. This company focuses on helping customers get their SAP on AWS, which makes for a really interesting conversation topic. In this episode, we talk about… Eamonn’s career journey and how he has moved from a more technical role to a more business-minded role. …

Carl Brundage, who joins to talk about Einstein Analytics Dashboards, is a Salesforce CTA, 30 x certified, and Data & Analytics expert. Main points In this conversation, Carl talked about the differences between Salesforce built-in dashboards and Einstein Analytics Dashboards (recently renamed to Tableau CRM), the various phases of utilizing data, …

Mike is chatting today with David Cobb, an Azure and AWS Trainer! They’re catching up on all the awesome things David has been up to the last few years both in the Cloudskills Community and in the industry. You won’t want to miss all the insight he has, especially around life-long learning and teaching. In this episode, we talk about… David’s backg…

Today’s subject is very important but often overlooked - polishing your soft skills. It can be so easy to focus on technical skills and forget about things like leadership, communication, and listening. But we absolutely need these skills for a strong career, too. Mike has Jason Alba on the podcast to discuss why you need these skills and how to bu…

Mike is talking with cloud expert Corey Knapp today. Corey has 20 years of cloud experience, specializing in Azure, dev ops, and more. He is also a great mentor who enjoys teaching others and he has a lot of wisdom to share with you on the podcast. In this episode, we talk about… What Corey has been up to lately, his career background, and how he g…

In episode 344, Douglas Brown interviews Tyler "T.Rex" Rohrer, Co-Founder / Strategic Alliances and Jason E. Smith, VP, Product Marketing at Liquidware. Tyler, Jason, and Douglas discuss what's new at Liquidware within their adaptive workspace management solution, how they are adding value to the IGEL OS Edge OS, and a bit about what they are seein…

On the podcast today, Michael Levan is hosting and chatting with guest Niall Dalton, who came from a systems engineering background and now has his own company. He’s the co-founder of Seaplane, a serverless company that’s working to help people not have to spend all their time managing infrastructure. Niall’s career background and how he came to co…

Mike is joined by special guest Luke Orellana, an SRE at Microsoft. Luke has a ton of great experience to share and has been up to a lot of fun things, like infrastructure development and terraform, that you’ll enjoy hearing all about. In this episode, we talk about… Luke’s background and how he ended up working for Microsoft. The basics of terrafo…

Mike is joined by Brianna McCullough who has had a very interesting career journey in the tech industry and who currently works for Google. You’ll want to listen to this one, especially for insights about how to up your networking game. In this episode, we talk about… Brianna’s background, how she got into the tech industry, and why Minnesota is su…