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In this insightful podcast episode, join prominent tech education figure and software engineer/site reliability engineer ⁠Ivan Velichko⁠ as he delves into the creation of his innovative learning platform, ⁠iximiuz labs⁠. We discuss the platform's structured learning path, emphasizing the importance of fundamentals and practical applications, the significance of hands-on experience and the limitations of random blog posts in skill mastery. Discover Ivan's unique approach to learning and the challenges he faced in developing this platform. Ivan Velichko's story to becoming a tech education content creator comes to life as he shares his wisdom and expertise. Don't miss this episode as we navigate the world of Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies learning with a dedicated tech educator and industry influencer! find out more about Ivan - https://iximiuz.com/en/about/ X: https://twitter.com/iximiuz Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iximiuz/ You can support this podcast on the ⁠⁠anchor page⁠⁠. Make sure to subscribe and follow ⁠⁠Alexa's Input Twitter account⁠⁠ to get notified when a new podcast episode comes out. About the guest Ivan Velichko: (04:03) - Ivan’s self introduction. (04:41) - How Ivan got into the tech world. (05:56) - Ivan is a workaholic, when he is doing the programming job. (06:29) - Ivan’s first job after college, outsourcing work for major companies like Coca cola, Philips, etc. Ivan’s educational journey as the content and the platform creator: (07:30) - Thoughts on the appropriate approach for learning, making it a project! (09:00) - Ivan’s journey with Kubernetes. (10:20) - Ivan’s experience with solving five hundreds of Leetcode problems. How does it sound to you, if you’re actively on the tech market? (12:43) - Ivan’s thoughts on knowing about underlying Kubernetes layers. What has changed? What has not compared to the past? Fundamental is a key focus. (15:25) - How Ivan made the decision on how to pick up something to investigate and how. (17:42) - How to turn the learning into the content: blog posts. (19:20) - The quote “You don’t know how much you don’t know the topic until you write about it“. Fill in the gaps during the writing. (20:09) - How Ivan launched the idea of creating courses. (23:14) - How much effort it took and what technology was used to create the learning platform: both back-end and front-end experiences. (25:12) - The most rewarding way for Ivan to deliver the content: building playgrounds & connecting them into a course, differentiating/producing the challenges, keeping the content structured, internalizing the skills, not just understanding them. Must-listen part! (31:05) - Users’ feedback on what approaches/courses they love to take. Wow, 1500 challenges! Memory and practice. Must-listen part! (35:34) - Ivan’s thoughts on the improvement in terms of the content collection and delivery. (38:27) - Ivan’s thoughts on his Twitter/X following. (39:57) - Ivan’s plan about the next step: create more content, open his learning platform to other content creators targeting H2 of this year. Stay tuned! (41:23) - Ivan’s curtain call for the audience.

Mauricio (Salaboy) Salatino is a Senior Software Engineer II at ⁠Diagrid⁠, author of ⁠Platform Engineering on Kubernetes⁠, blogger, and involved in multiple open source projects like ⁠Knative⁠, ⁠Dapr⁠, ⁠vcluster⁠, and ⁠Crossplane⁠. In part one of this podcast, Mauricio and I discuss all things platform engineering - tooling around multicloud infrastructure, the complexities and challenges for developers building on multicloud, measuring platform performance, changes and advancements in the space and much more! Find Mauricio's: ⁠blog⁠, ⁠linkedin,⁠ ⁠twitter⁠ You can support this podcast on the ⁠⁠⁠anchor page⁠⁠⁠. Make sure to subscribe and follow ⁠⁠⁠Alexa's Input Twitter account⁠⁠⁠ to get notified when a new podcast episode comes out.

Mauricio (Salaboy) Salatino is a Senior Software Engineer II at Diagrid, author of Platform Engineering on Kubernetes, blogger, and involved in multiple open source projects like Knative, Dapr, vcluster, and Crossplane. In part one of this podcast, Mauricio and I discuss all things platform engineering - how he came about writing a book, the state of platform engineering today, continuous delivery practices, Kubernetes abstractions, cloud-native application challenges, and much more! Find Mauricio's: blog, linkedin, twitter You can support this podcast on the ⁠⁠anchor page⁠⁠. Make sure to subscribe and follow ⁠⁠Alexa's Input Twitter account⁠⁠ to get notified when a new podcast episode comes out.

Alex Saroyan⁠, CEO and Co-Founder of ⁠Netris⁠, joins me in this episode (part 2) to continue our discussion on a host of networking topics - programmable network services, firewalls, smart NICs, networking in hybrid cloud, the evolution of networking and much more!  You can find Alex on Twitter: @alex_saroyan You can support this podcast on the ⁠anchor page⁠. Make sure to subscribe and follow ⁠Alexa's Input Twitter account⁠ to get notified when a new podcast episode comes out.

Alex Saroyan, CEO and Co-Founder of Netris, joins me in this episode to discuss a host of networking topics - how he got into networking, how Netris was founded, what is networking, how public cloud changed networking and how it differs from on premise infrastructure, various networking topics, and much more!  You can support this podcast on the anchor page. Make sure to subscribe and follow Alexa's Input Twitter account to get notified when a new podcast episode comes out.

Josh Bottum, Product Manager for the Kubeflow community, joins me in this episode to discuss all things Kubeflow related - how the project got started, what problems Kubeflow solves, supported features, how Kubeflow differentiates itself from other products, the future of the project, open source experiences and learnings, and much more! You can support this podcast on the anchor page. Make sure to subscribe and follow Alexa's Input Twitter account to get notified when a new podcast episode comes out.

Evan Anderson, Senior Staff Engineer at VMWare, joins me on part 2 of this episode to discuss Istio's role in Knative, Knative's goals, features, requirements and dependencies, provisioning resources in a serverless world, the future of serverless, removing barriers for developers and much more!  Evan graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Dartmouth College. He worked at Google for 15 years and left as a Senior Staff Software Engineer. He now works at VMWare as a Senior Staff Engineer and manages the open-source project Knative. Links: Evan's twitter, linkedin, Knative's YouTube You can support this podcast on the anchor page. Make sure to subscribe and follow Alexa's Input Twitter account to get notified when a new podcast episode comes out.

Evan Anderson, Senior Staff Engineer at VMWare, joins me on this episode to discuss the meaning of "serverless", his work experience at Google, the development of projects like Kubernetes and Knative, his thoughts around the cloud, managing an open-source project, and much more!  Evan graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Dartmouth College. He worked at Google for 15 years and left as a Senior Staff Software Engineer. He now works at VMWare as a Senior Staff Engineer and manages the open-source project Knative. Links: Evan's twitter, linkedin, Knative's YouTube You can support this podcast on the anchor page. Make sure to subscribe and follow Alexa's Input Twitter account to get notified when a new podcast episode comes out.

Danica Fine, Senior Developer Advocate at Confluent, joins this episode to talk about how Confluent provides tools for creating a streaming data platform. We discuss what Confluent is and the problems it solves, Confluent Cloud, Kafka, some interesting use cases and much more!  Danica graduated with a B.A. in Logic, Information, and Computation and a Masters of Science in Engineering in Scientific Computing from the University of Pennsylvania. Danica worked as a software engineer for almost 5 years at Bloomberg, where she worked on streaming infrastructure. Danica has been working at Confluent as a Senior Developer Advocate for a little over one year. Links: Danica's twitter, Confluent's YouTube channel, Confluent's engineering blog You can support this podcast on the anchor page. Make sure to subscribe and follow Alexa's Input Twitter account to get notified when a new podcast episode comes out.

In this episode, Donna Hutchinson, Senior Software Engineer at CircleCI, joins me to discuss her path into tech as someone with a nontraditional background, her experiences with workspace environments and how to make sure that you are in a space where you are supported and can grow, how being a woman has affected her career as a software engineer, and much more!  Donna graduated from Queen's University Belfast with First Class Honours in BSc Business Information Technology. She then went to work for JP Morgan Chase & Co. before transitioning to CircleCI, working as a Senior Software Engineer. You can find my Kubecon EU talk here: Exploring ML Model Serving with KServe (with fun drawings) - Alexa Nicole Griffith, Bloomberg You can support this podcast on the anchor page. Make sure to subscribe and follow Alexa's Input Twitter account to get notified when a new podcast episode comes out.