Episodes
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.
Published 07/26/21
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.
Published 06/24/21
In this episode Mike Pfeiffer catches up with Tristan Morel L'Horset, Senior Managing Director at Accenture.
Published 06/16/21
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.
Published 06/12/21
In this episode we're catching up with Don Jones, Head of Software Developer Skills at Pluralsight, about building your cloud career.
Published 06/09/21
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.
Published 05/26/21
In this live recording of the CloudSkills.fm podcast Michael Levan chats with Luke Orellana about testing with Terraform 0.15.
Published 05/18/21
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 we've gotten over the past couple years.
Published 05/14/21
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.
Published 05/03/21
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.
Published 04/23/21
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.
Published 04/14/21
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.
Published 04/07/21
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 build them. Jason has been in IT a long time and is also an expert on soft skills. He blogs, writes books, and authors courses on Pluralsight about...
Published 03/30/21
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.
Published 03/23/21
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.
Published 03/19/21
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.
Published 03/10/21
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.
Published 03/03/21
Today Michael is chatting with two guests at once! He’s got Chris Ray, a Chief Information Security Officer, and Jake Rajnovich, Director of Product Development at Syntervision. They’ve been building an exciting new cybersecurity product called Oasis, and they have lots of interesting things to share about it.
Published 02/25/21
Mike is sitting down to chat today with vExpert and Cisco Champion Michael Cade, a senior global technologist over at Veeam. Michael has spent the last 18 months or so diving deep into the Cloud, and he’s a great resource for folks looking to expand that skill set.
Published 02/23/21
Previous guest Steve Buchanan is back to chat with Mike about a whole host of skills you can add to your toolbox to level up your career. Steve is a Director for Avanade, a large consulting organization, who works in cloud transformation. Since his last appearance on the podcast, he’s been staying busy with DevOps, Kubernetes, and Azure, so he has lots of great insights to share.
Published 02/18/21
For many, the industry is seeming a lot more complex these days, and a lot of folks are feeling pressured to have to learn everything. In fact, you could say that generalization is the new specialization! On today’s podcast, Michael is sitting down with Tom Granot, a Developer Advocate at Lightrun, to discuss what to do about this new trend.
Published 02/11/21
Today, Mike is sitting down with John Lunn, aka Johnny Chipz! John has been working with Microsoft technology for about 15 years as an IT pro, and now is big into the Azure live-streaming world. He’s got all sorts of great takes on the current state of the industry and how everyone can best focus their attentions to gain new skills they’ll need in the coming years.
Published 02/09/21
Artificial Intelligence is becoming more and more important to the world we live in. Mike’s guest today is Simon Crosby, the CTO at Swim.ai.
Published 02/04/21
Tanya Janca, who was on the podcast last year, is back! Since the last time we talked, she’s been very busy founding her own company, We Hack Purple. Tanya’s an expert on App Security, and through her company, she’s sharing those skills with online on-demand courses.
Published 02/02/21
In this episode we're catching up with Travis Roberts to chat about all things Windows Virtual Desktop, Azure, and a lot more.
Published 01/28/21