The Technology Whisperers - A Technology and Innovation Podcast
Alistair Ross and Sean Muller, who combined bring you almost 50 years of technology experience, bring you a podcast to help demystify technologies and provide guidance about where technology is going and how you and your business can use those technologies to get better outcomes. From CEO’s to those just starting out, The Technology Whisperers Podcast helps you understand the technology landscape and where you should be investing to get the best benefits for yourself and your business. So come along and listen in!
Episodes
Friday Apr 15, 2022
07 - Technology Whisperers Caleb Buchanan and Interns journey episode
Friday Apr 15, 2022
Friday Apr 15, 2022
This episode we get to talk with Caleb Buchanan about his journey from University into an internship and transitioning to a permanent position. We here what the experience was like and what pitfalls to avoid, and along the journey we get to hear about rock climbing and the challenges young technologists face. Caleb is a rising star at Servian with a penchant for infrastructure as code, devops and mlops.https://www.linkedin.com/in/caleb-buchanan-454269181/
https://www.summeroftech.co.nz/
https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/explore/postgraduate-programmes/master-of-artificial-intelligence/overview
https://www.sjs.co.nz/
Monday Apr 04, 2022
06 - Technology Whisperers MLOps GCP Vertex AI episode
Monday Apr 04, 2022
Monday Apr 04, 2022
This episode Alistair and Sean demystify what MLOps is and isn't and how it differs from DevOps. They also talk through GCP VertexAI and how it can provide a hosted MLOps platform for those using GCP now to help develop Machine Learning Models and management and maintain those models.
https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alistairjross/
alistair.ross@servian.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sgmuller/
sean.muller@servian.com
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
005 - Technology Whisperers Graph Analytics episode
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
###Deep Technical Episode###This week we dive into a really technical and exciting capability, graph analytics. We try and demystify the why and what of Graph Databases, Graph Analytics and what they bring to observability and accelerated graphical views of what your data can tell you. Youcef Kadri walks us through the value and how long it takes to realise them. So as always, listen enjoy, share, subscribe and reach out if you want to talk.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/youcefk/
youcef.kadrI@servian.com
https://medium.com/@youcef.d.kadri
https://neo4j.com/
https://www.tigergraph.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sgmuller/
sean.muller@servian.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alistairjross/
alistair.ross@servian.com
Friday Mar 04, 2022
004 - Technology Whisperers Women in Technology episode
Friday Mar 04, 2022
Friday Mar 04, 2022
We have a special episode today where Amanda Watson sits down to talk about demystifying the value of a diversified workforce especially in technology. Amanda gives us the inside scoop to how CVs are different and what power and management looks like from different perspectives. We explore the value these different viewpoints bring to technology and development . Finally we talk about the upcoming International Women's day and what events are happening in New Zealand.
#BreaktheBias
https://techwomen.nz/event/celebrating-international-womens-day-2022/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/74334850
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-watson-38b2132/
Monday Feb 28, 2022
003 - Technology Whisperers Sensible Security episode
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Today we have a special episode where Alistair, our resident CISO and security guru, will take us through what a sensible security approach that won't break the bank and helps businesses understand the value of security. Lucky Sean gets to play the CIO asking lots of probing security questions.
https://www.servian.com/cybersecurity/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alistairjross/
alistair.ross@servian.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sgmuller/
sean.muller@servian.com
Tuesday Feb 15, 2022
002 - Technology Whisperers Tech-Debt episode
Tuesday Feb 15, 2022
Tuesday Feb 15, 2022
In this episode Alistair and Sean discuss Technical Debt and Legacy Technologies.
We define what Technical Debt is and is not.
“Not making a decision is making a decision, and usually a bad one.”
We talk about Hardware vs cloud vs software tech debt.
Define good Debt vs bad Debt.
When is deciding to incur tech debt is acceptable.
Impact from Technical Debt to business costs and future capability.
financial impacts - licensing, TCO (Total cost of Ownership), lockin-cost, write-downs
risks - security, people, business, process
And finally how to deal with Tech Debt
knowing what you have - discovery process
translation - between business and technology
cost/impact to cost/upgrade and cost of delay
financial planning to remediate and impact to business initiatives
Migration options (7)
rehost
replatform
refactor-rearchitect
repurchase
retire
retain
Architecture and roadmaps to deal with Tech Debt
Strategies for preventing future debt
challenges to making decisions
1 user still on the system
monolithic architectures
unknown devices/systems
ownership of systems, software, business processes
financial approvals to remediate
Stalwarts (server huggers)
Basically an actioned packed episode!
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
001 - Technology Whisperers Introduction episode
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
Listen to Sean Muller and Alistair Ross talk about their 30 year journeys through the world of technology.As the Introduction to the Technology Whisperers we get a view of what technology whispering is and how you can take advantage of Sean and Alistair's combined 50 years of experience to help demystify the world of technology. Join them as they talk about Tech debt, AI/ML, cyber security, and many more technology topics.
https://www.servian.com/
https://feed.podbean.com/kiwiinnovators/feed.xml
https://www.youtube.com/user/ajrossnz
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Pre-001 Special Covid-19 Vaccine Pass Explained Event
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Monday Jan 10, 2022
New Zealand has now moved into the new COVID-19 Protection Framework also known as the Traffic light System. This framework states that as the alert levels change, the requirements on businesses will change, but under all levels, a business will have more freedom to operate if you mandate vaccination certificates.
The Government has produced a free verifier app that can be used for in-person verification, however, if companies would like to introduce more sophisticated capabilities, such as integration into existing digital journeys or pre-verification processes, then the technical specification provides enough details for them to do so.
We are keen to help all New Zealand businesses hit the ground running now that the Traffic Light System is in play, so we held two virtual seminars where we will explained the technical specifications and how to integrate them into your existing systems.
The special Bonus episode, a Pre-001 episode, of The Technology Whisperers brings you the full content of one of the two events. Please enjoy and watch for our 1st Full Episode in January 2020.
The Technology Whisperers
Alistair Ross and Sean Muller, who combined bring you 48+ years of technology experience, bring you a podcast to help demystify technologies and provide guidance about where technology is going and how you and your business can use those technologies to get better outcomes. So if you are struggling to understand the technology landscape and where you should be investing to get the best benefits for yourself and your business, come along and listen. Also if you just like cool tech that is what we talk about.