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Brice Berdah - https://www.linkedin.com/in/briceberdah/

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We discuss the Coral Castle, a strange home/monument constructed by hand without assistance by the diminutive Edward Leedskalnin.  Why did he build it?  How did he build it?  We'll discuss the facts and fun theories.  

This week we sit down with Head Brewer of Blind Enthusiasm's Monolith, Doug Checknita. At only 27 years old Doug is a highly accomplished brewer despite being a relatively new player in the industry, and his work at Blind Enthusiasm's huge, menacing Monolith brewing facility is unique not just for Alberta, but for the entire continent.

Doug grew up in a DIY household full of “doers.” With a third birthday present of a bucket of nails, a bucket of scrap wood, and a set of real tools Doug would soon develop a desire to work hard and make things himself. His heavy appetite for hard work led to diving into Alberta’s craft beer industry in two places at once: Craft Beer Market, where he would have the opportunity to meet people in the industry, and Brew Brothers, where he would get his foot in the door as a brewer.

At the time the Old’s College brewing course was still yet to be, and Doug made the drive down while they were still under construction to voice his interest in joining the program. After joining the program Doug would have the opportunity to move to Quebec for a brewing internship, and he jumped on the opportunity. Despite not speaking any French, he says is was the best decision of his life.

His work with Blind Enthusiasm would start with a misunderstanding. Arriving to meet with owner Greg Zeschuk for what he thought was just a chat over beers, a touch hungover and clad in a metal band t-shirt from the show the night before, Doug would discover it was in fact a job interview. After putting everything on the table about the beer he wanted to make, Doug and Greg would set out on a years-long journey of Doug always asking for me, which led to Blind Enthusiasm as we know it today: A brewery and restaurant in Edmonton’s Ritchie Market, and the massive 3-story concrete brewing facility aptly called The Monolith.

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Diese Woche hatten wir Gregor Biswanger zu Besuch, der uns eine Einführung in das Thema "Verteilte Architekturen mit Microservices" gegeben hat. Dabei lernen wir, warum Microservices im ersten Schritt nicht nur auf technischer Ebene betrachtet werden sollten, sondern auch von Unternehmensseite, wenn es um Teambildung und andere Prozesse geht.
Gregor ist Microsoft MVP, Intel Black Belt und Intel Software Innovator, Berater, Trainer, Autor und Speaker. In den Themen Softwarearchitektur, Cloud-, Web- und Cross-Plattform-Entwicklung mit C# und JavaScript/TypeScript kennt er sich gut aus. Auf seiner Webseite und Twitter findet ihr mehr Informationen.

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• Sebi: Socket.io 
• Dennis: Auf den Daumen beißen und reden, um danach deutlicher zu sprechen. 
• Gregor: Manchmal einen Schritt zurück machen und nach einer Pause noch mal neu denken. 

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On The New Screen Savers recorded on Saturday, December 8, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Jason Howell:

• Leo and Jason discuss Canada's arrest of a Huawei exec, Australia's anti-encryption law, Google shutting down Allo, and Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 855 SOC.
• Jason reviews the Google Pixel Slate. This premium Chrome OS tablet features a 12.3" Molecular Display and starts at $599.
• We continue our Holiday Gift Guides with Jason's picks for high-end headphones from Monolith by Monoprice and HIFIMAN; and gaming headsets and other video game accessories.
• Sam Machkovech shows how you can play your old-school Super Nintendo game cartridges in 1080p goodness with the Analogue Super Nt.
• Is it possible to transfer to a new Google account and keep all your data? Find out in our mailbag.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jason Howell

Guest: Sam Machkovech

The New Screen Savers records live every Saturday at 3PM Pacific on twit.tv/live. Episodes are available for download and streaming later that evening at https://twit.tv/shows/new-screen-savers.

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Overview: Brian and Tyler talk about how existing application developers and PlatformOps teams can map existing applications and framework services into a more distributed set of services that run in containers on Kubernetes and OpenShift. 

Show Notes: 

• Why Kubernetes is the New Application Server (blog)
• Kubernetes: Your Next Java Application Server (video and demo from @burrsutter)

We mentioned last week that we’re moving into the 3rd Era of Kubernetes (automated ops, automated apps), with the 2nd Era being about getting a broader set of applications on Kubernetes. Today we thought we’d talk about some design patterns, especially for anyone that’s transitioning from existing applications, and how some of those concepts map to the evolving Kubernetes eco-system.

Topic 1 - At the core of this statement about “Kubernetes is the New Application Server” is three things: 

1. Some explanation about why containers are a useful packaging mechanism to avoid the difference between developer environments and production environments (package dependencies, etc.)
2. How to mentally map between the more monolithic frameworks that are widely used today, and more distributed concepts that align more with Kubernetes and containers.
3. Even within a language like Java, there are now variants (JakartaEE, Microprofile, Node, SpringBoot, etc.) and developers might not want to embed all functionality within the application, if it can be offloaded to platform services.

Topic 2 - It walks through the 10 elements that either map to Kubernetes, an OpenShift service, or emerging functionality in Istio (or maybe Knative)

1. Discover (Service Discovery)
2. Invocation of the Application
3. Elasticity / Scaling
4. Resilience
5. CI/CD Pipeline Integration
6. Authentication
7. Logging
8. API Mgmt and Integrations

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Special Guest Nathan Ladd of the Eventide-Project

Special guest Nathan Ladd, co-creator of the Eventide Project (http://eventide-project.org/) joins host Drew Ogryzek for a discussion around monolithic software architecture versus microservices, what that means, and what the informed CEO should know when a team is considering tackling this type of software design shift.

What is a monolith? What does microservices architecture bring to the table? What should we consider when determining what makes sense for the software that drives our business?

"The database layer; how you arrange your bits on disk, is one of the biggest factors in terms of the plyability of a monolithic codebase to become services. If not the biggest. I happen to think it is the biggest." - Nathan Ladd

Samantha Ming from the Events Podcast gives a review of the Unbounce Call to Action Conference that happened last week, and fills us in on the upcoming events of the week.

Follow Nathan Ladd on Twitter at @realntl and Samantha Ming at @EventsPodcast.

Events Podcast Presents: Vancouver Tech Events July 4 - 6, 2017

• TUE: July 4

  • Vancouver Team Building 101 Event - Keys to Success
    (Founder Institute | at Profile | 6:30 pm)

• WED: July 5

  • Kubernetes In Practice
    (Vancouver Google Kubernetes Meetup | at Hootsuite | 6:00 pm)

  • Tech Starters Code Night
    (Lighthouse Labs | 6:00 pm)

• THU: July 6

  • How to Get a Flood Of Business Using Facebook Ads
    (Vancouver Digital Marketing Mastermind | BrainStation | 6:00 pm)

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The Vancouver Tech Podcast is a weekly show focusing on the growing tech industry in the city of Vancouver. Get caught up on the events and meetups around town, startups, new businesses, developers, designers, community programs, and news. Each episode includes an interview with an outstanding member of our community.

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