Tag: podcast
Episode 551: Vidal Graupera on Manager One-on-One Meetings with Direct Reports

Vidal Graupera, an Engineering Manager at LinkedIn, speaks with SE Radio’s Brijesh Ammanath about the importance of managers’ one-on-one meetings with direct reports. They start by considering how a 1:1 meeting differs from other meetings and then explore how a new line manager should go about introducing meetings with their team. Vidal describes the objectives […]
Episode 550: J.R. Storment and Mike Fuller on Cloud FinOps (Financial Operations)

J.R. Storment and Mike Fuller discuss cloud financial operations (FinOps) with host Akshay Manchale. They consider the importance of a financial operations strategy for cloud-based infrastructure. J.R. and Mike discuss the differences between operating your own data center and running in the cloud, as well as the problems that doing so creates in understanding and […]
Episode 549: William Falcon on Optimizing Deep Learning Models

William Falcon of Lightning AI discusses how to use the Lightning platform to optimize deep learning models, noting that optimization is a necessary step towards creating a production application. Philip Winston spoke with Falcon about PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning, the Lightning platform, the needs of training vs. inferencing, scalability, machine learning operations, distributed training, the LightningModule, […]
Episode 548: Alex Hidalgo on Implementing Service-Level Objectives

Alex Hidalgo, principal reliability advocate at Nobl9 and author of Implementing Service Level Objectives, joins SE Radio’s Robert Blumen for a discussion of service-level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets. The conversation covers the meaning of a service level; service levels and product ownership; the pervasive nature of imperfection; and why trying to be perfect is […]
Episode 547: Nicholas Manson on Identity Management for Cloud Applications

Nicholas Manson, a SaaS Architect with more than 2 decades of experience building cloud applications, speaks with host Kanchan Shringi about identity and access management requirements for cloud applications. They begin by examining what a digital identity is and then consider the technologies and tools that support identity management in cloud applications. The discussion then […]