Cloud Architect Interview Demonstration (Tech Career Interview Training!)

all right we should be broadcasting to the world now hello everyone this is michael gibbs i'm the founder and ceo of go cloud architects and we are here doing some cloud architect demo interviews and what's going on here is we've invited some people from the community to do a practice interview and we're going to give a real-life interview we're going to ask some questions and we're going to provide some feedback so you know interviewing in general is a daunting experience it's a bit on the scary side and that's just life now for the folks that have volunteered to do this they're interviewing in front of an audience of thousands of people so the people that are doing this are going to have an incredible experience and why we're going to have a chance to interview they're going to interview under a real stressful environment so when they actually interview in real life it's going to be simple for them because it's not going to be like there's people coming from anywhere i'm going to let you know the people that are going to do the interview i've got some samples we've got four people here four others have signed up to join nobody has been informed of the interview questions i don't really know the background of the majority of people that are going to be interviewing for them and i'm going to ask the background because in real life what do we hiring managers do we look at your resume and from your resume we're going to look at the kinds of experiences that you've had and from there we're going to judge your technical competency i intentionally do not have resumes from anyone but you know the interview is really important so what is the whole point of this cloud architect interview or solution architecture interview let's talk about it the interview does two things it enables you to determine if you like the cultural fit of the organization if that organization is going to make them make you happy and enables the organization to see if you're a good fit now when we go through these interviews i want you to think about it from the perspective of the hiring manager hiring managers will hire what they need to have on their team what does that mean it means people that are technically competent it means people that they can trust it means people that know their limitations so they know what they know and know what they don't know so they don't make errors like the kind of error that occurred at facebook two weeks ago where there was an eight billion dollar error because someone didn't know bgp well enough made a bgpms configuration and took down an organization so that's kind of why we're kind of talking about these things so things that organizations are going to look for in an interviewer as follows your technical competency your safety your level of enthusiasm your executive presence your communication skills your capabilities your attitude your energy your ability to be a team player the ability to work with others these are the kind of things that organizations are looking for so what are we going to do we're going to ask a series of questions now i want you all to understand the technical interview process that cloud architect interview process that solution architect interview process we have to gauge the following do you have the technical competency do you have the business acumen do you have the communication skills the executive presence the emotional intelligence to get the job done so we have to see these things it is very normal for us to ask a cloud architect or a solution architect to give a presentation these are not just tech jobs these are cross between technical and business executive roles so when we ask these questions we're going to ask leadership questions behavioral questions and technology questions so we're going to be asking all of these and when you prepare for these things be prepared now we're going to ask some of the very common cliche questions which you should have an answer for all the time we're going to also address questions that i know that people will most likely not be able to answer because i want to see how the people answer a question for which they don't know organizations will always ask questions that they don't think you're going to know the answer to because they want to see if you're going to lie or if you're going to be honest you're going to have the opportunity to do it for real like you would in a real interview we're going to get to things so this should be a really good experience we're going to address some of the behavioral questions we're going to address some of the technical competency questions we'll address some leadership questions and i've got lots of faith for all of you it's going to be a fun experience it's going to be a learning experience so those are the things that we're going to do we've got some people from all over the world here we're gonna kick it off to kick it off if you can let us know that you're here by typing cloud hired hit the like button if you're able to the subscribe button tell people and let's go let's have some fun let's prepare people to interview so what i'm going to do is i'm going to interview everyone for about 15 minutes that's on this list and then after the interview i will provide feedback things that could be better for the next time so use this as a chance and if you're one of my students and you have a chance to watch this watch this you can learn what the competition does if you're not one of my students watch this anyway learn something learn what the competition does be better than the competition and you will get hired every time be better than the competition you'll get paid more be better than that competition get promoted mark just be the best you possibly can be so chris from my team is going to bring on one person we're going to start the interview process we're all going to support this person this is really hard it's an interview in front of a giant audience so let's be respectful let's be thankful and to all you guys that are here you know my hands uh hats off to you it's i'm very proud of you we're all going to make this a great learning experience chris if you'd like to find the first person that will be part of this interview and we'll ask a few questions and then we'll summarize those questions and the kind of answers that will get people hired so this should be a good learning experience chris would you like to place on the screen yeah definitely let me uh let me pick the uh i think the ceremonial first choice here and uh something to keep in mind for everybody you may notice that some people have cameras on some people don't have cameras on um some people might be using their real names and might not be using their real names so if somebody has their camera off that's for a reason uh don't don't think that that's normal practice um when you're do when you are doing a virtual interview you will have your camera on of course so i just wanted to put that out there so um let's go with uh mr whitfield davis first and i will get everyone set up okay sounds great so chris i guess what you probably should do is bring whitfield and me front and center screen or however you're managing this whatever you feel is appropriate whitfield and i will start the interviews everyone will be here to support whitfield we'll cheer wit phil dawn we'll ask a couple of questions we'll provide the answers to get him hired hopefully he doesn't first but if not it doesn't matter we will give everyone feedback to get everybody better the whole point is this is training training to be better so whitfield um hey mike how are you hello how are you any chance i can get you to move your chair over a little bit because you're half on the screen off the screen oh here it is i need you to move your chair to the exact opposite direction so i think you need to move it right this way um the exact opposite direction oh no yeah yeah there we go okay perfect whitfield now i can see you so for those of you that are in the audience including you whitfield watch my body language okay scroll back over to the other side okay mike you need to make sure that you aren't you're watching stream yard mike oh that help that will help you a lot yeah yeah but i was talking i was talking to mike mike needs to okay so i was watching youtube and there's a 60-second delay so i'm telling you to move and okay he was already where he needed to be okay for everybody in the audience including you whitfield this is a sign that things are going well this is a sign that i'm not happy this is really i'm not liking it so if i don't like something adapt improvise overcome so whitfield thank you so much for coming here today could you tell me a little bit about yourself so mike i've been in the field now for about 18 years i started in um i started actually on wall street working for chase manhattan bank many many years ago uh started in 1999 just basically pushing monitors around kind of setting things up uh it was my first job in it and um i got to know um i worked inside of the data center also so i got to see um from the point of the data center all the way up to the actual desktop uh being set up for the user so end to end i worked with some of the cisco guys i worked i myself started out with windows and decided to switch to unix so i uh worked in solaris um solaris seven and eight and uh linux came on the scene a little later i was also involved in the y2k which is pretty interesting and uh got a chance to work with disaster recovery and backup uh for a few years moved to junior administrator and then moved into uh production unix engineer and started to do different migrations um between unison unix and linux and actually worked in the disaster recovery environment for a long time um spent 15 years at jpmorgan chase and uh uh what i got to know and what i got to find out was after leaving that environment after 15 years i was not fully prepared to go out and find another job it was like being a jack of all trades but mastering nothing just being around in in many different uh many different environments um i moved from financial to retail or for home depot for about two years and um that was a a another set of i was back in the data center working in that capacity and working with hadoop and hadoop storage um and basically becoming a fixer just fixing everything both online software um move from that to work for nasa johnson space center here in houston and uh worked as an application uh support person so i was less in a linux capacity and more in an application support capacity but uh never got uh i would say got a chance to get things uh nailed down where i could actually work in the cloud and learn about the plow it was like okay put down fires everywhere having all this experience and not really centering and focusing and you know i gave you a call and found out because after i left nasa uh johnson space center which is now i'm trying to specialize now in you know cloud and specialized in something as you told me it's better to have a specialty than to just have the jack of all trades so that's been my experience in it um what i i can uh say is that i've met a few experts in it and the experts that you do me at a very high level or they're at a consulting level where they come in do some things and then you don't see them again so i'm trying to be um i'm trying to actually learn the cloud and make a better career for myself in this new uh braille technology that we have going on now okay okay so it sounds like you've got a really big background on uh in technology it sounds like you worked for a big bank it sounds like you work for nasa it sounds like you've done predominantly break fix have you done any design work um not design work no i've done no design work but i have my last um my last application engineer support uh job that i had uh for nasa i started to get into doing ux design boomlet looking at the architecture um actually speccing it out uh designing it um with drawings and that really gave me a better understanding of what i've been working on for the two for the last two years actually getting it from that uh that level okay so very interesting sounds like you've done a little bit of design so um have you worked as part of large teams i have back uh back as a infrastructure engineer i worked as part of the larger team live stream oh so you worked as an infrastructure engineer were you touching the network or was it just all server stuff i was touching all service stuff i would only touch the network if there was a network problem on our side uh meaning on the linux unix side and then if it was something then we couldn't determine whether it was maybe um a an ethernet port it wasn't set right or it wasn't set to auto detect like it should be set if we were getting that kind of trouble yes i can fix that but on the largest side when something did happen and we had both application and infrastructure outage then we refer to guys like you okay so let me ask you a little bit about your linux it sounds like you've done a lot of it there's a file that's sitting on on every linux server and you can basically map a name to an ip address should you not be using your dns what's the location of that file and what's it called um i think it's in slash etsy it is the xd slash hostname etsy slash host that's the file exactly for which you put mapping names to ip address should you not be using domain authentication okay so navigating the linux operating system let's say i've got a syslog that's full of all these error messages okay what would i do to search for a single to search for something that's relevant is there a string that i could do that maybe i could pop into the bash cell that would search for something and basically parse through a log file that's like 80 miles long and output it to another file that cares just what i care about and how would i do that so you can you can use awk and you can use set the stream editor um and uh try to find a regular expression so it would be uh it'll be a a combination of or said and grep that i would use to get the exact um the exact type of file that you the exact type of string you would need and also um probably also maybe grab by the timestamp also um to actually see what what we have there and uh send it into a file that we can look at and uh then out of that file go ahead and troubleshoot um what's going on paying attention to the time stamp uh of when um the um when the problem actually occurred and maybe trying to even map that timestamp to what networking i have or what the application or database might have you know and kind of cross-reference the time stamp to kind of cut down exactly where to get that problem good strong now i'm going to ask you one last tech question and then we'll go over everything when would you use epn and when would you use a private line or a direct connection to connect to the cloud provider so a vpn would be used if you have a sensitive application that might be set that might be set in a uh gateway that's set up between um let's say aws for example and the application in the application team they might use a secure vpn to uh get to that application to get to that database um or uh when using like the private uh internet it would probably be for a web server application or something that might be using lambda uh that needs to be accessed um through through the web so when you don't have that uh security that you might need in an application you might not want to go between that vpn gateway in the in your client uh network and the aws connector okay i'm going to stop you right there okay two things occurred one is the interview and ended on that question no matter what okay um and i'll tell you why and then i'm going to give you feedback when you get a question like that that you don't know it's far better to say i've not had the opportunity to work with that technology yet but i'm highly energetic i'm highly motivated i'm enthusiastic and i love tech i know what i know and i know what i don't know and then how to find the answers to things quickly but this is not an area that i have expertise on i've got an expertise on linux routing and whatever it is that you're an expert on because what happens when you answer it incorrectly that's where you really do your self-damage so people use a direct connection when they need guaranteed speed in terms of bandwidth and latency and people use a vpn when they're looking for the cheapest option to connect in a secure environment and they don't require guarantees of bandwidth or latency so there's that and that's okay if you didn't know it um but if you guided me the fact that you weren't sure that would look better than getting it wrong okay so let's walk through and dissect this interview the first question which was to tell me about yourself as a very common question it's a cliche question you really needed to say something like i'm whitfield i've been working in tech for over 20 years i've had the opportunity to work for chase bank all the way to nasa i've been at the leading edge of technology for the last two decades i've had the opportunity to work in brake fix i've had the opportunity to work in the application side and now i'm here on cloud something very enthusiastic it was too long you got to go in there you got to hit them hard show them why you're there now remember hiring managers like people that are capable which you obviously are you had some competency that came out on there they like people that are energetic and enthusiastic you got that in there they like people that are emotionally intelligent to bring out the best in others willing to go above and beyond and people that are part of teams so somewhere along the line you needed to hit that teamwork i'm a great team player i'm always willing to go above and beyond so you went a little too long in the beginning and you started off i've been with chase for 18 years yes yes yes he's got it and then you hit nasa and it was good and then you started talking about being a jack of all trades and having a hard time getting a job and that's where it really sunk so kick it off you should you know you should uh you know you should hire me because or the same thing tell me about yourself i'm a highly energetic highly enthusiastic technology professional with 20 years experience i've worked for chase i've worked for nasa i've worked for the best and i love every last minute of it something to that effect show some passion energy enthusiasm regarding the unix piece that was awesome um you know i i the ability to you know grab pipe and run a regular expression to look at something a combination awk and knock yeah perfect said excellent example it became very clear to me that you were very familiar with the unix operating system and that's why i asked you some competency questions and it was good shorter crisper to the point for these architecture roles because these architecture roles are executive so one other thing when you have something rephrase the question so how do you um how would you look for a file i want to make sure i understand the question are you asking me how to look for a file in a unix operating system yes i am the best way to look for the file is and the other thing is i want to add a little gravitas to it so you would use a combination of the knock set and grip basically what you'll do is you'll set them up you'll create a regular expression and then you'll output it to a file do you hear the difference by making a point pausing your next point pausing and making the next point yes sounds more powerful oh yes you know unix and linux 100 times better than i do i promise you you do but if you've got a little more gravitas executive presence energy and you make that point in sound people are going to believe you know a lot more so that's the key as an architect you're going to start with that ceo you're going to be asking a lot of business questions what are the goals in the business how do you want to shape the business what are you trying to achieve do you need more cells do you need more productivity through decreased cost you need to connect to more people we start there so speak the language of the ceo great job great job great start and i hope everybody give you some guidance to help make it better but a great job nonetheless thank you thank you whitfield thank you mike all right let's hear from whitfield let's hear it for whitfield let's give him a cloud hired in the chat box in front of a tremendous number of people he knows there's 80 people watching right now and there literally would be hundreds if not thousands by tomorrow so let's hear it for whitefield whitfield did great yeah good job it's always tough to go first first well now everybody's gotta follow that up all right so we'll uh we'll bring the next one in uh the next one we'll bring in is uh uh amarath um and i can't pronounce his name i always always mess it up so i'm gonna bring him in and uh we'll uh we'll let him go so get these uh congratulations out of the way up here all up on the screen so everybody so winfield sees all the congratulations he got there all right and i'm never going to be able to get them all because they just keep coming so looking great all right so we'll bring the next one in thank you whitfield all right here we go okay amram it's so good to see you hi amarith and welcome to the interview my name is michael gibbs hi max how are you doing good to see you i'm doing fantastic amaranth thank you so much for coming to interview with us today as you know i need a cloud architect very badly and it's been a long time so i'm super excited to see you here today amaranth could you tell me a little bit about yourself first of all thank you mike thank you for this opportunity for interviewing me my name is amran first i graduated with electrical engineering degree from ryerson university and right after university i worked as a quality control inspector at a ford motor company where i learned all the hardware inspections for for eight months then i wanted to advance my technology and my career then i'd choosing the technical technology path then i worked at then after that i took some certifications and educated myself and then i worked as a field service technician at um bell it's one of the leading communication industry in canada it was it was a company called bell field service technical solution it was a part of that bulk company and there was i was working for more than two years and i enjoyed working there i learned a lot of telecommunication and trouble shooting skills uh from there while i was working there i had i was interested in enhancing my tech and technology knowledge that that field service technician job inspired me to go more for a foreign technology because i love tech so i started learning about spending more time learning about networking and cloud computing and through that way and i was working in the company and at some point i wanted to advance my career to directly to cloud computing so right now where i am at here to do and work for and taking a challenging opportunity to work as a cloud computing cloud related networking uh job that's that's pretty much about my job and yeah that's all about myself as well you know that sounds great amaranth you know you mentioned the word networking the cloud's just a virtualized network in a data center do you know anything about networking i just have a basic understanding about networking okay i'm going to start with something basic to check your competency i'd like you to tell me where this subnet begins and where the broadcast is and where the usable ip address is so the subnet i'm going to give you is the 192 168 1.2 30. could you tell me where that subnet begins i'm going to repeat it again it's a 192 168 1.2 that's the ip address that i'm giving you and it's a slash 30 which is a 255-255-255-252 could you tell me the first could you tell me the address of the network or the subnet address could you tell me the first and second usable address and the broadcast address for that subnet okay when it comes to subletting it's my favorite part in networking too so let me repeat the question 192.168.1.2 30 you are asking me the first ip address and the last ip address and the middle uh usable ip address exactly so the subnet which obviously can't which gets assigned to the network that the router will look at the two usable host addresses and the broadcast address yeah so since it is a 1.2 30 i'll have a for total ip address so which means you will have uh 192.168.1.0 is the subnet is a network id and 1981 192.168.1.3 is the last ip address which is a broadcast ip address and the middle one and two is a usable host ip address but with not one would be used as a gateway ip address so so those are the four ip addresses all together okay excellent that is completely correct could you tell me when i would use ebgp versus ibgp and honestly because it's my understanding about networking it's a basic like a ccna level but i'm i'm going through some of those uh readings so i know about a little bit about bgp so i can't answer that question in in fact i would say i didn't get the opportunity to learn that in the depth to answer bgp but for this inter the basic question i could able to answer it so you're asking what is in interior gateway interior border gave a protocol ibdp and ebgp is xcd8 border gateway protocol yeah i will be able to answer in a very uh with my unlimited understanding and with my basic networking understanding so first of all bgp border gateway protocol it's used for exterior uh now bought a gateway product it's a bgp is the exterior gave a protocol that used i think it's better for me i'm still not 100 percentage like i mean i'm not really familiar with that uh the bgp and to explain in in a very well at this moment and uh so i would say yeah i wouldn't take that question i don't think i'm i'm good fit for that to answer okay so we'll address that afterwards there was either an answer or not an answer um versus where that but that's okay so let's now let's now let's now go a little bit further so you've got a server in the cloud it happens to be in the aws cloud you want storage on that server to persist after a reboot what type of storage on that server would you use yeah that's a good question so i had that understanding about if you want if you want uh something to be persist and we use the black storage option there are there are call providers use the different different names to label them what would be that uh the block storage type it could be different types for example cloud users they call persistent disk aws would use that as a uh elastic block storage different name but that's what they used is a block storage it's in the control cloud cloud concept we call it as a block storage option good while we're at it we'll ask you another technical question what type of storage is used for objects or files that you want to write once and read many times that is not normally usable by a computers but is usable by hosts we typically use it for software distribution we use it for backup on archival purposes we use it uh for front ending static websites it's cheap and it's not designed to be used by computers but it's used by by humans to distribute software artifacts that kind of thing okay that's a good question i learned that question i i learned that concept too so if you want to read write read once sorry if you want the question is you are asking right one right one read many time which is we are going to use a object storage that's good option for object storage because it's it's a human human making that object storage so the computers can not able to read that so we are just putting all the data for data and static contents and binary contents and videos to the object storage so that that that would be the good suitable uh object uh object the storage would be the object storage good okay now the last question not that different than the first question but it's asked all the time why should i hire you uh first of all i think myself has a uh i love technology so i always i willing i like to learn i wanted to and like improve to understand the technology pieces so i would say i always come with the background with the technology technology and engineering background so i have a i'm a very passionate in technology so it's almost i have a four almost three and a half four years of technical experience in the field where i learned those basic uh hardware uh troubleshooting and i have strong uh basic networking understanding as well and also i'm very uh very good at almost i've worked for more than two and a half years in a field service technician i also receive merit excellent i'm very um very good at field uh internet service provisioning based on those technology background i am i'm thinking myself i'm very open-minded i'm energetic and i love for the technology so i like to learn i like to spend my whole time to dedicated for the technology to troubleshoot and and solve the problem so end of the day it's uh i like to help customers like a solving problem for customers it's like this a solving problem for the business challenges being part of a team um being a great team player participating with others an open-minded person and ask ask for help if i don't know i'm a very open-minded person ask for help so i'm i'm in the beginning of stage to going to to break through career as a cloud so i'm saying i'm a very enter level person but i'm very open-minded person so with this skill set i think i'm i'm able to know i'm able to express i'm able to communicate my problem if i don't know i will ask for help those kind of approaches i have to work in the team and like in a team environment or collaborate together to solve and build solve and solve and and provide the best solution for those businesses and customers in this situation and that's why that's why i think i'll be a suitable candidate for this uh job role and and then i think that that's what yeah i would say okay so let's dissect this because you know there were some things that went really well amra some things that went exceptionally well some things that i'd like you to get better at so let's first talk about it the tell me about yourself the first question which sets the tone for the interview that was pretty darn good you came in you told me about the tag what you liked what you're doing that was good crispen that up just a little bit and try and use a little more gravitas make a point pause make a point pause so remember you know when you're an architect versus an engineer the engineer is the worker and we need these engineers they are a critically important person no engineers need nothing nothing gets built nothing gets done no tech means no engineers need no tech but the architect is this hybrid business executive slash tech professional so you have to have this presence or this gravitas we're going to get some more of it by doing the following so if our arms are close together and we talk real fast we don't look very powerful if we open up and we spread out and we slow it down and we make a point and we pause and we make the next point and we pause we maybe use a little gestures not as many as me because i'm mediterranean i can't talk without my hands but you know it makes us look bigger and that's what we need to do so tell me about yourself we'll work with that it was good and strong the first network question i answered you solid excellent logically you repeated it back to me there was grave i gave you another tech question you answered it solidly i gave you that bgt question you had two options if you could have said ebgp is used to connect to external organizations and ibgp is used to connect internally to exchange your routing across your organization that would have been fine and if you knew that i would say amrat answer the question directly succinctly the way i did it without all the preface without all the equivalencation i don't know bgp now if i asked you that simple question you could answer the simple question and then i said to you wait now amrat what do we do with this bgp community thing and you said i don't know that was where i'd say i don't have the opportunity to learn the technology yet but i wouldn't go there in just yet i would try and answer it with what i knew the answer to before i exposed my weaknesses but i would expose my weaknesses to my honesty and integrity long before i would lie so what you did totally appropriate if you had it answer it succinctly i'd say learn that because it's kind of critical because basically with the cloud architecture pretty much everything is bgp so i'd say learn it but you know again not a bad option it's just what i recommend you do next time now on the why i should hire you that one fell apart the beginning to tell me about yourself strong the technical competency some of that was pretty darn strong but the why i should hire you you should hire me because i'm highly energetic i'm highly motivated i'm an excel and i'm very competent if i was part of your team i could make sure your customers are satisfied i could raise the energy in the team i could help bring out the best in others and i could help you look good by being making sure that i do everything on time and on budget convince them why they need you so the interviews are sales and you know i've studied sales i don't consider myself to be a sales rep but i've studied sales because i'm an architect and an architect we need to study cells how do you sell you solve somebody's problem why is a hiring manager interviewing you because they've got problems they've got a lot of things that need to be done and nobody that can do it show how you are the solution to somebody's problem and they will hire you and they will pay you a lot more than the average person that's just there so what i would say is make sure that you get a little better at this you did a good job very very good job but i'm a coach for me it's about becoming better every day yeah i practice interviews myself a lot of them i train them i coach them i make interview courses it's part of our cloud architecture development program as you know but the point is this the point is is it's just about getting better every day amaranth really great job keep practicing it try to take some of the feedback we gave you and practice it but really great job i think with a little bit of practice you're not that far away from finding yourself something yeah thanks a lot for the feedback yeah i see that myself yeah i'm losing my uh because of my nervous because i'm not able to fully listen and absolutely think yeah thanks for the feedback so that's half of it the half of it is remembering when you're when you're when you're a problem solver and you're an architect what you have in your head is really important remember it's not just i passed a certification exam in 10 hours you've got knowledge you can solve customer business problems you can save customers billions of dollars that's in your head that's the knowledge of the architect have confidence in that the customer will see it great job um evo nice job yeah great job there was a point that i got to find the comment there was somebody made a good point about the repeating of the question um obviously it confirms that you hear what they said but it also allows you time to gather your thoughts for just a few seconds which which came across especially with you amaranth that that you were it gave you that little bit of time to um to gather your thoughts and that was that's it serves multiple purposes to repeat back the question so it it does and since chris mentioned that chris is my chief operating officer and a great executive for those that you don't know when i say make a point and pause that pause also enables you to collect your thoughts so when you repeat it back you bought yourself a couple of seconds to think it but also you know when you when you make your point and pause make a point and pause the answer as well and like kenya girl saw the likability fact is you're huge your inner your energy and your confidence they you didn't i'm sure you couldn't see the comments as they were coming in amaranth but everybody noticed your energy and your confidence your your and i know that's something that you were worried about but everybody saw that you had good energy and that you were confident so that was uh thank you thank you because for me for me i'm nervous because i don't know the whole world i'm depending on my christmas tell me about the outside world what is the the job looks like because i'm i'm not sure i'm looking at my eyes and seeing okay am i doing it okay or not so so you guys are welcome you did great and practice it practice it again yeah practice and interview and i used to use stuffed animals because i could put them throughout the room and they'd make me smile but whatever it is now i use my cat cindy um i just put her some places and anyway my cat cindy's part of everything yeah great job seriously uh seriously very happy thank you so much yeah lots uh lots of good feedback here all right thank you amaranth um thank you so much the next one is going to be uh it's gonna be j so give me just a second to get jay in here awesome man so let me go all right jay i've got you up hi everyone how are you hi jay how are you i'm doing well thank you for asking um can you hear me well i can hear you very well perfect so jay thank you so much for coming to uh interview with me today it's a real honor to have you here i've heard exceptionally good things about you from the recruiter so um could you tell me a little about yourself sure first of all thank you so much for taking the time out to interview me i really appreciate the opportunity um i will tell you a little bit about myself now so i am a technology professional with strong interpersonal problem solving and leadership skills accompanied by nine plus years of experience in the information technology and services industry i'm skilled in designing solutions for customers and delivering results i started my career in sales during college where i honed my interpersonal skills by speaking with people customers on the front side of things and grew into a managerial role technology always excited me and i was curious to learn how everything worked so after graduating i started to focus on my technology career i spent a lot of time outside of work hours to learn the skills needed to help me gain the industry relevance experience and do well in my career i started you know working with different devices like pcs printers ip phones and other devices to grow further in my career i started working with the new company as an i.t operations lead in that role i had a chance to supervise and train junior members and also lead technology projects that were completed on time and within the budget now within that role i discovered about the cloud and i was very curious to learn about cloud technology so my eagerness drove me to take on a course on a platform called udemy.com and create a free aws account so i can teach myself the practical skills i did many labs and completed the course to gain practical experience and pass my aws certification this led me to land a role at my current job as a multi-cloud engineer in this position i am responsible for provisioning and building of cloud accounts as well as consulting and supporting customers who utilize the cloud for their workloads i run pocs whenever needed and guide the customer to the best solutions i'm highly motivated and driven to excel and i believe i can make a great addition to your team okay jay um thank you um so let's okay what is an aws ami and what are the things that it includes definitely so aws refers to an ami as the amazon machine image so these images are actually used when you're first creating a virtual machine on their aws cloud platform you will use one of the amazon machine images provided by aws to create uh your machine so it would it would include an os and you know um supporting components so you can run your virtual machine in aws you can also create ami snapshots from your servers that are already running so you can back back them up and you know use them for recovery in the future okay good so why would an organization want to use auto scaling oh great question this is one of the most important things about the cloud and i will definitely love to share this with you auto scaling is one of the great features that provides organization to scale and become agile right so when you are when you have your web application on the cloud and you're running let's say 10 servers and you have you know user traffic that's going to increase in the future you can set auto scaling groups and you can include those servers in your auto scaling group to automatically scale according to the traffic that you're receiving on your website and then to save money you can basically auto scale down to the minimum required servers this way you're not running resources when they're not needed this lets you um you know increase performance of your web website or applications and it can save money when they're not running on an extra usage compared to um you know on-premise where you'll have to you know think about this ahead of time and order all the servers and you won't be able to auto scale at the rate that you're getting the traffic in okay um i'm kind of liking that so when would you use a nosql database versus a relational database great question mike um database is one of the things that i was interested in and i wanted to learn more so i definitely looked at this in the in the past so a relational database and a nosql database so the difference between the relational database and nosql database is that one is a structured database and one is a non-structured or partially structured database so when i say structured in an in a sql database or relational database you will have to have an idea of what kind of data you're putting on the database ahead of time so you know in a relational database there are tables that create relations between each other so if you had a user user base or um number of users in your company you will have to associate them with the department the type of work they do you know what kind of um you know what kind of tasks they're doing so you'll have relations in those tables when you're storing that or the transactional type of data right so in in in contrast in a no sql database you will use that database for unstructured or partially structured data that's coming in which is not really planned ahead of time because it stores it in a key and document setting this way it can scale better so you know this is the main difference in scalability and on the on the sql side which is the relational database right you'll have to have uh something planned but you can all you can always uh put in other services in place to make sure they scale as well uh like red rap replicas or caching so these can definitely help with performance okay so jawad actually let's uh let me give you one more because i'm going to dissect this there were some things 99 of this that you did so exceptionally well and then there's one thing that we really need to fix um we're going to ask you a behavioral question tell me about your proudest professional accomplishment oh yes there are actually a few um i would i would actually approach this question in a holistic way or you could say a high level way because my proudest compliment accomplishment is you know me growing uh you know from where i was after graduating college uh getting a business degree and then coming into the technology world and learning so many things and with the desire and the drive to grow and you know i i started i started with the desktop support then i grew into it operations then i grew into cloud um you know and one of the one of the proudest accomplishments i can think of when i started my cloud career is when you know the place i work at we had we had a you know a challenge where we had to basically retain a lot of the students that were in the university and you know this was a project that needed to be done in a very timely and tight tight timeline uh within two weeks and i got to work right away because every challenge i face had on um i started researching the products that were going to actually provide that solution for the customer i um you know i i came up to appstream which was uh you know able to stream the applications uh needed uh to you know to actually deliver the content to the users and then i ran pocs with the customers and you know once they were successful i was able to drive it into production within the two-week timeline and that was my proudest accomplishment because it was very tight timeline but i was able to get in there i spent extra hours of my own time to learn it to make sure i can deliver excellent so a couple of thoughts if you had to if you had any transformation about that in the end like you got this application you worked really hard and it saved the customer a certain amount of money or it increased the customer's up time where you increase the availability that would make it much more powerful okay so yeah so so jay so let's go through this the technical answers you gave me jay were exceptionally good and they would all get you hired the only thing that i didn't like was to tell me about yourself which is the kickoff when i asked you to tell me about yourself here's what happened it felt too rehearsed now i know um you've got to have this it felt like you wrote it up and it felt like you were reading it and it felt very long-winded so if you had just something like i'm jay i've been working in tech for 10 years during this time the opportunity to work in banking leadership and whatever you know you're highly motivated highly energetic highly enthusiastic and you love solving customer problems with technology something like that would have been shorter and to the point the rest of it was exceptionally good thank you very much for your feedback i think um you know i did i did write this for one of the assignments and uh you know i rehearsed it many times but i i totally understand what you're saying and i will work on that to make it more natural thank you that's the thing and when you present things and you know i remember one of my executive coaches a long time ago and i remember i had a presentation i was going to be on cisco systems engineering tv and i was going to be presenting to the entire cisco technical team which you know probably had 40 000 people in it and i was a little scared because you know i was like in my 20s and i'm going to go present to a 20 000 plus engineer audience and i had an executive coach and i practiced this again and again and again and then i got in front of my executive coach and gave the presentation and she was like oh no no i'm like what's the matter and she said this is word for she had me do it three times and each time it was word for word identical and she said mike here's the thing it needs to feel free it needs to flow she said so remove your slides get rid of half of the text do it more extemporaneously so jay really really good job here very very good job you know you go on an interview that you will get hired um you definitely will now the difference between doing what i'm describing and and this is the difference not only getting hired because you're going to get hired but it can make a 30 difference in your pay and it can affect the type of job that you actually get i want you to get the best ones um so i'm always going to push you to be better but that was an exceptionally good job you did great i mean really really great good job thank you so much i appreciate that mike i love your feedback and i will work on it thank you really great uh but you know for me i want to make it better yeah that was great that was great got to get these got to get all these comments up here about how great you did jay thank you guys i appreciate it everybody's support is amazing look you know what you know what i love so much it's right now we've got people from all over the world i'm looking at some of these names and i know some of the countries and continents you're in everybody's here working hard to help each other have better careers so they can take better care of their families and promote better lives and better and better and the world can do better i can't think of anything better than having so many of you wonderful people out here supporting each other and that's why i love doing these things so jay excellent i mean excellent just excellent excellent excellent super excited to uh this this response was my favorite because there's a fine line here where kenya carl says he is selling himself without sounding cocky and there's a that's a very fine line to to to do because if you if you come off too too much that's a turn off to to hire managers and that's a fine line to draw thank you kenya selling yourself really well without making it sound too grandiose and too much bravado exactly and that fun there's going to be a fine line for everyone it was so natural and that's why because it was so natural i just want the natural you to come out all the time because when it does it's magical thank you so much mike and chris i appreciate everyone else as well i love the sport this has pushed me to do better thank you oh yeah all right chris let me just address one thing that aqua brought up because aqua is super smart i know aqua he's a great network architect and a great cloud architect when it comes to persuasion and exercising influence there's no person that's done more research than robert caldini and robert taldini has a lot of books when it comes to exercising influence and persuasion and whether you're at stanford university or whether you're at cisco or whether you're at any of the big tech companies through the world every leadership program for the most part works on robert caldini's work robert caldini did a tremendous amount of work studying um what happens when basically you repeat back a question to someone and the customer's success and the customer appreciation was so high um they did a study of people that serve food and when the person said i'd like a hamburger fries and a coke when the waiter or waitress would say okay i want to make sure that i got this right you said you'd like a hamburger fries and a coke hold the bun make the hamburger medium well change the fries for broccoli and oh by the way don't give me the soda give me water instead being able to do something like that actually increased the tips that the food suppliers are receiving by 30 40 or 50 so there's a lot of good data to talk about the reasons why to repeat things back to people and it's been very studied but also it gives you a chance to actually think and anytime you come by yourself a couple of seconds the brain can do some incredible things in a couple of seconds if you're calm enough so chris we've got some really wonderful amazing people if you guys are having a good time if you can type hashtag cloud hired hit the like button invite some friends to join us we always love having a party and the bigger the party the better so chris you want to bring in the next person adam say could you address more on how we should not sound rehearsed isn't rehearsing going to make you sound more prepared and better adam say the answer is yes you want to rehearse but it can't be too rehearsed so for example when the police interrogate someone if it sounds too perfect it makes them nervous so the answer is practice it practice it practice it why did i pick it out on jawad adam it sounded like he was reading something so the key is adam if you say i'm mike i've worked at cisco for a decade i've been in technology for 25 years and again it sounds like hi i'm mike i worked at cisco for i've been in tech for 25 years it's too similar if then said it just sounded more natural if jay talked about you know i've been working in cloud for five years and prior to that i spent a decade here it wouldn't sound rehearsed it was just too perfect and there was no variation of the vocal tone and there was no dramatic pauses in between things and that's what made it sound rehearsed so could jay have had it on a teleprompter had lots of practice like an actor or an actress reading from a teleprompter and not having it feel rehearsed absolutely in fact when i'd be on tv at cisco and they'd have us on tv and they'd have us use a prompter i practice with the prompter i learned how to read and make it sound not rehearsed but it just has to feel not rehearsed and that's based upon the timing of the words the tempo of the words it can't sound too consistent it can't sound like there's a cadence word word word word word no variation of vocal tone that's when it sounds too rehearsed i think chris is trying to add something but he's muted yeah it's all about the inflection making sure that it's natural and it's not not not staccato just to do you know so that's uh and the sad thing is it's gonna take rehearsing to make sure that you're not sounding rehearsed you're gonna have to rehearse not sounding rehearsed to get it right that is an excellent point you're going to have to practice not sounding like you practiced right exactly so that it's just it becomes natural and you you learn but over the course of time you'll you'll you'll get used to it and you'll you'll reflexively be answering things instead of thinking too much especially only tell me about yourself because if you think too much that's when you start to sound rehearsed exactly so all right so we'll bring the next guy in we'll swap this chris out with another chris so chris constantino what is next that's a very cool name well well my family is from in greece everybody's got a name like costa or quote thanks for having me mike are you in from greece in any way chris what's up uh everybody takes me in greeks italians uh all types of nationalities i i consider myself an american um my dad's filipino my mom's german so i'm a mix oh very cool we're all from somewhere it's just i just find it interesting where we're from americans ask what do you do and europeans ask where are you from so since my whole family's from greece or most of my families from greece are half of what i should say i always ask people where they're from because i find it fascinating so chris welcome and thank you thank you for taking time to come in with us today let me tell you a little bit about our company we are growing fast fast fast i can't hire cloud architects fast enough this year my team deployed 20 billion dollars of cloud solutions and i need cloud architects fast if you're part of my team you will be working really really hard i can pay anything to my cloud architects but my cloud architects work really really hard i'm going to let you know about our customers they're highly demanding they expect our architects to work really really hard so tell me a little bit about yourself chris so i bring over 20 years experience i studied computer science in college was very interested in being a software developer and writing that killer application i joined a software startup i started out doing quality assurance testing and hotline support for customers i learned those products really well and through my expertise i helped the vice president of professional services who ran into a critical problem with proof of concept that he was demonstrating to a potential customer in helping him solve that problem and enabling that proof of concept to be successful i was able to take a position traveling as a consultant in his organization that was my beginning of traveling as a technical consultant for software companies all over the u.s um doing solutions for engineering companies manufacturing companies healthcare companies got got exposed to a variety of types of businesses and types of solutions um very i have very strong expertise with the java programming language uh the java stack was primarily used with those companies but as my career progressed to team lead and architect levels i became very interested in working with customers to define the upfront requirements for their solutions and map those to the technology solutions so the last seven years i've been working as a technical business analyst that progressed into in my most recent role as an integration project manager for route one i've learned to structure projects and stock structure agile sprints in a way that deliver business value to customers faster gives them a great roi because i have a development background i speak the language of developers i understand what they need and i can help customers get there faster quicker okay started off so strong um still a very good technical answer um just uh we'll we'll talk about a few things but by the way very strong so um what's the difference between iops and throughput iops and throughput um so iops has to do with the number of operations per second that a device has so a hard drive for example may support a certain number of reads or writes per second um throughput um to me from an application standpoint isn't just that single device but also including the network and all of the other things that are related to the performance of your application okay as it pertains to storage what's the difference between iops and and through and throughput that's a good question i don't know the answer to that okay fair totally fair um you've got two virtual firewalls you need a high security environment you're going to use two firewalls how do you make that work in a cloud so you would have one uh two virtual firewalls let's be what is each firewall protecting you've got two fi great questions you've got a web app and you want to put it behind a firewall you don't want to use something like waff because you want to use a real firewall for industrial-grade security but you can't just use one firewall because you know the firewall fell you're going to use two of them on two virtual machines from the marketplace what do you need to do to make sure both firewalls get used what kind of device would be used to do that um the redundancy on the so the two firewalls are used for redundancy purposes yeah and in a data center obviously they have a heartbeat between them they can do their own health checks but you can't do that in the cloud you've got to run them on ec2 instances so how would you load share across two firewalls for availability and performance um you could use something like a load balancer the load balancer would check for the heartbeat of each each firewall uh make sure that it was available before it sent traffic that way um obviously you once you completed the setup you're going to want to test it make sure that each firewall behaves in the way that it's expected to when the other one is down you would need some way to synchronize the firewall rules uh between the two to ensure that those are when you make a change on one that it had the same change takes effect on the other good real good because that's exactly what you use ej's a network of balance or a gateway load balancer to do something like that so excellent um you've got a customer that wants to use a nosql database and a multi-cloud environment what are your best options to be able to use aws azure and google all at the same time how could you do it so you want each of those separate cloud based applications to be able to access the same nosql database exactly i want a no sql database that i can have running in my data center aws azure and google and i want them all synchronized at the same time without having to worry about code deployments code changes i just wanted to work because i want super high performance high availability how could i do that uh well to enable super high performance and availability you're going to want to use aws direct connect make sure that the network is running at the highest speed possible between those cloud environments and uh the database that's in your data center okay so what about the other clouds do we connect the clouds to the clouds are we connecting my data center to all three clouds we can use it's up to you and what kind of databases could we choose from that's a good question i don't know the answer to that okay and that's fair what i was looking for is to know that you can't use a dynamodb or a google cloud bigtable because you're dealing with a multi-cloud environment so you're going to have to choose from your list of noaa scale databases that are going to be usable such as apache cassandra or mongodb so that's kind of more that industry knowledge all these cloud native services they're beautiful on one cloud but there's no such thing as one cloud now so you know you're not going to be using non-modb you're going to be using mongodb or you're going to using apache cassandra based upon whether your traffic is read oriented or predominantly right that determines which one you actually use so let's give you one more technical question here and okay let's say this let's say i've got 20 servers that each have 120 quarters or 4 terabytes of dram of web servers what type of load balancer am i going to use for these 20 20 servers that each have 128 cores and 4 terabytes of dram and why okay so each has a 128 cores and 128 gigabytes of dram four terabytes of dram four terabytes and an nvme rate array of eight times eight terabyte um ssd drives and nvme drives which provides approximately four million iops and 35 000 megabit per second throughput okay um i think you use an elastic load balancer uh which will adjust to each of those devices uh scale up and scale down as necessary to handle the traffic coming into your network okay so when it comes to load balancers we really have two options let's strip away names like elastic um we've got application load balancers and network load balancers and the same load balancers that we have on google azure oracle dell cisco palo alto are we using a network load balance or an application load balancer and why the application load balancer would give you more options i think um depending on the application that you're running okay so we're going to dissect this so we have to use a network load balancer because an application load balancer is slow it's intelligent but slow so when we're routing between microservices for example we would use an application load balancer but we're going to route between servers that have 120 cores and 4 terabytes of dram we need something big so we're going to be using a lot of less a lot of network load balancers for that so for the speed and performance let's walk through this let's dissect this because there were some things that worked really well so you were the first person because you're technically solid that i wanted to see if you were going to adapt to the environment you didn't um i gave you some things in the beginning i told you how busy we were i told you how hard our people worked and i told you that we have i have an unlimited budget and i can afford to pay anything but i have a backlog of work did you hear that did you address that at all i i didn't i talked a little bit about my experience working for a startup company but i didn't directly tie the two together to that first question that tell me about yourself you went in there solid you told me about your 20 years experience that's the time where you would kick in i'm highly energetic i'm highly motivated and i'm very hard-working that manager it's in his head he has to hear that you're hard-working shove it he just told you wants to hear it six times i've been working in tech for 20 years i'm highly energetic i'm highly enthusiastic highly motivated and i work hard to delight my customers now that was in there you started going down down the java path and an application in the software path this is cloud architecture there is no coding so don't talk about your irrelevant skills your java development or your coding talk about your relevant skills which is your architectural design skills so look if you were going to apply to be an application architect all that's great but you want to be a cloud architect cloud architect designs the servers the network the storage the overall end-to-end and not the applications so don't talk about your software development unless you're applying for an application talk more about how you can solve customer problems so that part now once i started getting into the tech stuff you did very solid you were real solid so again coming from an application perspective all the application people always think of as application load balancers network people like me automatically think network load balancers so you're going to be biased there i'm going to be biased at the networks the next thing that you should look at when it comes to these things is look at the capacity realize network load balancers for example are much much much faster than application load balancers now the question is why a network load balancer is not too smart source destination ip address protocol and port number not much application load balancer it's looking deeply into the header it's looking for a lot of information so it's got to do a lot more work if you ask me to do two plus two all day long i'm going to be pretty quick if you ask me to do calculus in my head the numbers are going to be much slower i'm probably never going to be able to answer it because i'm not this bad my cat's probably better at calculus than i am but you know the point is is you know i want you to get it out so listen to what the person is telling you now for the next person we're going to do some body language work too but you have an extremely good technology extremely highlight that listen a little more give a little bit of feedback now the way you answered those questions was great the tech questions that you don't know sorry i've not had the opportunity to learn that yet but i'm highly energetic i'm highly motivated i know what i know and i know what i don't know and i can find the answer to things that i don't know very quickly but i need to be honest with you but i know a lot about about relational databases bgp ospf i don't care something that's going to guide me the interviewer to ask you about what you know about i don't want your interview to chat you tell me what you know i hear what you know because you tell me what you know and i hear what you know i give you what you need and you do really really wrong so you actually did quite good grip i just want you to be better and but you did really good so adaptiveness watch what's going on listen to what people tell you and um uh realistically speaking you'll be in a very good place so that's where i was kind of going but great job seriously thank you thank you terrific job awesome job yeah really quick i'm glad that chris had to do that not me yeah honestly that chris did a really good job you chris christopher you know really great job let's get some cloud hires i think chris is going to be getting his job relatively soon so straightforward to the point great yeah daniel picked up on something here it was uh and it goes back to inflection like i was talking about before and chris had a definite he had he had a definition to his answer like there was a into it there was a christmas to it there sure was there was a chris and his definitive and with the straightforward responses there but it goes in line with that definition that point to the end so all right get on get these really really really solid so i really like what you did there chris you know it was great it was to the point so the data from harvard is as follows when we communicate 55 of our communication is what we look like when we say something 38 is what you sound like and 7 is actually what you say so 93 of our communication is non-verbal meaning vocal inflection our posture our clothes the tonal quality of our voice are gestures so 93 kind of kind of scary if you think about it only 7 is our actual content yeah all right well thank you chris for taking part and we'll bring the next person in uh the next person is gonna be um avida let me find her here and um let's see here we go we've got avita up uh i think she's with us hello avida hi hi evita how are you today how are you avita can you hear me yes i can hear you mike how are you i'm doing wonderful in yourself i'm doing so great thank you so much for asking i'm so happy that you're here with us today we are a rapidly growing firm you know we started as a cloud consulting company approximately three years ago and you know we grew steadily and then with the pandemic people have just come to us and literally speaking we've been consulting with literally 300 clients a week and we just don't have enough staff so we need people that can hit the ground running people that are really competent i don't care so much about somebody's experience but i need competent people and i need them yesterday so i'm hoping you're one of those people but what i'm really concerned about what i'm really concerned about are people's attitudes see i want to hire adults i want to hire people that are good i want to hire people that are motivated i want to hire people that i can basically say i need this done and the people will go and do it and i need people that are so good and strong and capable and independent that all i'm going to hear from as mike gets done the customer's satisfied or mike i need some help i need some resources that's what i need because i don't have the time to supervise a lot of people avida so i'm very very very grateful to have you here today so tell me about yourself yes absolutely well first and foremost congratulations to the progressive success of your company three years running and ongoing i absolutely look forward to being an asset to the team i have experience with implementing customer best practices as it relates to creating solutions that increase the satisfaction of our customers and consumers as a lead nationally certified pharmacy technician i actually served as a leader in the medical industry and what that showed me transferring into the world of technology is that i have transferable skills that will enable myself to serve as a leader to ensure that not only myself but my team members are able to hit the ground running with the projects that we have on board to ensure that they get completed to their most efficiency and of course as quickly as possible great um how are you with working with teams that's a great question so as far as myself and how i work with teams the core value that i hold is being a motivational and encouraging leader leadership is a vital part to the organization and to essentially serving as the glue that holds us together that holds our productivity and that ensures that it's increased that holds our engagement and that ensures that we have continuous and effective engagement within our team as well as excuse me our consumers so as a leader i love leading my team with motivation and encouragement as you said being an asset to this team we will be three years in and with the influx of our demand i'm sure that we have team members that might feel stretched and that might feel stressed and so for me as a leader it's super important that i bring that high energy and that high encouragement to ultimately bring out those talents those hidden talents from our team members through passion as well as through engagement engagement is one of the biggest priorities that i have on my priority list as it relates to leadership and so it's important for me to not only have check-ins with my team members hey what's going on with this project how do you feel about it how do you feel about your progress with it it's my job and my privilege to ensure that i implement the most efficient project management to ensure that we meet and exceed deadlines that are established but the other side of that being a leader is ensuring that my team members are all on one accord and all on the same page so that we can get to that goal that much sooner and with that i found in my experience as a leader in the medical industry in transferring those skills to the tech industry i found that encouragement and motivation are two huge catalysts that enable us to be able to upkeep the workflow efficiency and productivity as well as engagement with our team that then of course leads us to accomplishing our set goals within the appropriate deadlines and more than often actually exceeding that um and actually getting those projects done even before the deadlines okay could you tell me about a time that you had to work closely with someone whose personality was very different than yours absolutely so in my experience the essence of customer satisfaction is rooted in customer engagement and there was an occasion where one of my team members their personality was more so focused on the robotics so to speak as far as our computer systems and knocking out the um knocking out the tasks that as it relates to our you know hands-on computer systems however i realized that it is very important for us to have that element in our personalities as it relates to our passion and dedication to increase engagement and so i realized that the differences between my personality and my team members personality is that they were more comfortable kind of staying behind the computer in their own zone in their own world checking off the to-do list and to do boxes however my personality also held those components but it was about most important to importance to me to maintain that communication and engagement especially as it relates to our customers so we actually did come across a situation where the customer was unsatisfied because said team member wasn't really attuned to hearing what the customer was complaining about the team member was just more so focused on well if the boxes are checked i did my job what are you complaining about because the job is done but what i was able to bring and rectify in that circumstance was the emotional intelligence to hear the customer and listen to what solution that i could provide with the emotional intelligence that allowed me to be more in tune with what the actual issue was and so when resolving said issue between the team member and the customer after my intervention i got a chance to speak to my team member as a leader and let them know hey let's use this opportunity and the circumstance as an opportunity to reflect on and learn from and so that's just another example on how i got to have multiple experiences that showed me the true power in that motivation that encouragement rooted in engagement that increased our customer satisfaction that increase our customers trust in us for them to feel like they out they are our priority and as a leader i was also able to use that as a learning moment not only for myself but for my team on how we can handle said situations in a better way in the future okay so i'm going to ask you one last one now i want you to uh avita i want you to read me i want you to watch my body language and then we'll give you some feedback so tell me about your strengths and weaknesses absolutely so one of my weaknesses that i realized on my journey of being a leader is that my personality is very aligned with doing my best to go out of my way to assist and to provide extra help to those in need and to those who request upon this journey however i realized that it turned into a weakness yet to be identified because the assistance and help that i was providing ended up being a crutch to certain team members that were learning in the midst of learning certain processes and so as that weakness i actually realized that hey next time around as it relates to team members requesting my assistance and my help instead of us working on a project for an hour and a half and me just thinking i'm helping and them intentionally using me as a crutch i rectified that and i realized that as a leader i like to approach said circumstances with a clear objective what is the issue what is the bridge to the solution and what will the outcome of that solution be and to answer your second question that's also where i was able to highlight a lot of my strengths i love being able to create and compile organized data that will allow me to establish set objectives that are required to be lined out and accomplish the goals of the team and the goals of my company i also realize as well that in the organization of that data i have a keen sense of being able to interpret complex feedback that we receive from said data and then generate creative solutions generate creative plans to be executed that will eventually increase the productivity of increase the success of our company and increase the efficiency for us to accomplish the managed projects that i my team were responsible for another strength of mind is that i am extremely passionate on making sure that i do my absolute best to exhaust all resources if i don't know something i know how to get to the next person who does or source out that information through our abundance of internet resources that are dedicated to helping us get to solutions a lot quicker so i love being able to exhaust our resources and in that i find that it absolutely helps us and helps myself as a leader to get to the end result of said projects that i have the privilege to manage as well as the efforts and the assistance added from my team knowing that we have different outlets to exhaust our resources to get to that successful end what goal i been doing for the last four minutes of ita you were flipping through your book i had my arms crossed i was answering email that's why i asked you to watch okay so let's talk about what went right and what went wrong so first and foremost your likability factor is so high that if your answers weren't so long-winded you probably would have gotten hired right then and there so your likability factor is huge huge huge so that is your strength that is your secret weapon i want you to use that now the answers were so long that the hiring manager has less than a 60-second attention span to get an answer and your answers went into the five and the ten minute range and basically speaking i tried to show you with body language i tried to cross my arms i tried to answer my email i tried to do anything i finally held a book up some book that we were my associate and i were looking at the azure expert and literally flipped through it to see if you would notice now i need you to be present in whenever you're in these interviews you need to read the interviewer that interview leans in talk that leonard viewer ian's back stop that interview crosses their arms they had enough close it down or change your topics that person looks at their desk or an email you got to wake them up and so i need you to really really look so what i would say is your likability factor is extraordinary the quality of your voice is exceptionally warm and welcoming it is amazing your attitude is amazing now we got to make the sound come out simpler like i don't know what said anything is once you start telling about said this and said that it's too complicated the interviewer is not going to pay attention so quicker to the point so if i had asked you about your strengths and weaknesses and if you would have said i'm highly motivated i'm highly energetic and i'm meticulous these are my primary strengths my weakness is that i'm a little bit disorganized so i have a series of checklists that i use to make sure that i deliver everything on time and on budget that's an answer if i asked you to tell me about yourself in the beginning if you'd said look you know what i've been in the healthcare and technology field for a tremendous amount of time i've got a tremendous amount of experience in consulting finding customer requirements and delivering a solution to delight the solution that is awesome so the point is you did great it's a really great start great start and you are super super super likable which again is a great start so i'm using me as an example here i'm trying to show you why i want you to just listen so let's try this one more time because that likability factor that you have is so strong and that healthcare background is really all that consulting you did is so good so i just want you to simplify it for the people because the executive the ceo basically needs to read at a sixth grade level because they're so busy they've got a really short attention span so you your likability is so so so so awesome so instead of giving me the highly educated super educated long answer i'm going to give you another one and i just want you to give me a very very simple straightforward to the point answer so now let's go back and ask you that same time tell me about our problem you had to work closely with someone whose personality was very different than yours 60 seconds or less and i know you can do it because you have some of the most likability i have ever seen in 25 years of interviewing and that factor the last person that was as likable as you i'll call him avi he was an israeli guy and i literally hired him with no knowledge of networking whatsoever not only did i hire avi avi went off to become the ceo and sell chromebooks to the developing nations and he's done so much good for the world so the point is your likability factor is that strong that good so let's ask this question one more time the same question i asked you tell me about a time you had to work for someone whose personality was different than yours thank you for that question the time that i worked with somebody and their personality was different from mine was when we had a customer and this customer's experience was unsatisfactory because my team member differed and that their personality wasn't as engaging i value engagement and i value the high standard of communication with said customers and consumers and so that's when i realized that our differences and our personality actually affected the customer satisfaction that resulted with their interaction okay a lot better a lot better now if you if you can even reduce it down a little further i once worked with this person and though we were on the same team philosophically we're exactly opposite i like to approach her from a customer perspective she liked to approach it from a more tactical perspective i understand both are required for a quality solution but the tactical approach that was used for the last few times had not delighted the customer what i said what i did is we had a long discussion we mapped it out i showed that we've tried this approach three or four times we didn't necessarily get the ideal goals so i showed her where my method would probably be appropriate we adopted my method the method promoted not only did the method work the customer satisfaction was increased the customer ordered 13 more than they normally do because they were so delighted so great it was much more succinct to the point try it back try if you can try and tie it back to a positive outcome that shows the transformation because all we architects do is we transform technology this one this responsibility was solid and this was a lot better it was 500 better than the first one so you learn really fast too real fast thank you i appreciate that and i also agree um from the perspective of feeling like you have to provide an elaborate answer i guess to compensate for any gaps that you might feel insecure as the interviewee um i can see how that might have backfired to basically just provide that clarity and as much clarity as possible and it turned into um just extra information that ended up wavering their interest yeah you know it's a it's a lesson we teach salespeople stop it yeah yeah the worst thing that i see on an interview or with sales reps if somebody does so good the hiring manager is like you know what i really like you i'm going to bring you on and the person babbles for a half an hour until we decide to say oh wait we don't want this person so give enough your again your likability factor is sky high that total quality of your voice your personality is so good that it's going to be a big boost to you mike can i can i add something please for that okay so um you know i arguably might have had interviewed as many people as mike has but in a different in different roles over the course of 15 years the thing to remember is you're in the interview already you've already got there you're not having to sell anything anymore you've been sold you're there so just like mike said that it's the same thing that has to be told talk to salespeople if they've got the checkbook out already you just you gotta and and you'll get you'll get familiar with it you'll learn when you've when you've got to that point that you you don't have to you don't have to sell anymore you don't have to talk yes like you said stop you know know when you've gotten to the yes and um it all goes back to the body language um and not just the body language the way that they're responding to you in their questions their questions may change as the interview is going along if you start to notice that the nature of the questions are changing then it's a good sign that you've either lost the interview or you've got or you've gotten past the interview so that's i just wanted to add that to it but uh that was a really good uh you're like my your likability is just out of the roof that was i'd i would have hired you for any position that i had in the past 15 years that was you're like and that's the thing when you hear that kind of attitude and that kind of personality i need this person so i just want to work with that natural awesomeness and make it a little more executive and that way not only do people need you but they're like why i have to have this person immediately and i'll do anything to get this person on my team that's what we're really trying to do yeah so again the important thing is remember you you're in the interview already they wouldn't have brought you into the interview if they didn't think that what they've already seen is enough to do the job and that is that that thing that chris highlighted that is the most essential thing that i need everybody to understand we hiring managers are so busy we don't interview people that we don't think we can hire if you're sitting in that interview seat it's because we think you can do the job and it's up to you to prove yes or no at that point but we're already put you there if you we already brought you in because experience was irrelevant to us if we cared about your experience i'm not going to bring you in and waste an hour of my time i brought you in for an interview because i think you can do the job so convince me you can do the job you're there show me that you've got the skills show me that you can delight me and i will hire you every single time that was great that was great lots of lots of good feedback here in the comments it was exceptionally good thank you i see everybody in the comments thank you all so much i appreciate that a lot and i will definitely take that and meditate on it because i agree and i'm grateful that i had this opportunity to reflect on that aspect and um shift to transform it to use it to my advantage sounds great and awesome awesome and there's even some people from our crew one of my friends joe that actually saw you and instantly said you were a star in the making um joe is a ccie like me um he was one of our students still is part of our family um and is now working um as a senior cloud architect just one of the main cloud providers um so you know if he's reaching out to you saying this you know that's a that's a great thing too so all right well thank you again avida and uh we'll bring the next person in let's see so the next person will be bob and let me add him in all right here we go everybody hi mike how are you doing great how are you today i'm doing fantastic doing fantastic it's beautiful out here today thank you so much for coming here today from when i looked at your resume it looks like you have a security background is that true that is true mike i do well i want to let you know what we're dealing with so i lead a team of cloud architects and we deploy some of the world's largest solutions and the challenge is is now that everybody's going from the data center to the cloud it feels like the cloud providers have convinced people that they don't have to worry about anything on the regards to security on the cloud so everybody wants to come to the cloud and all they think is we're going to use like a waf and a shield and a couple of access lists and their systems are going to be secured and you know my cloud architects are having a really hard time trying to convince the customers that everything they needed in the data center they still need here and then they need some more because now they're on which is a high value target which means not only can the people get hacked as before but the cloud gets hacked and they're they can hack in multiple ways what's your do you have any experience securing the cloud yes i do mike uh cloud is uh very fascinating to me it's something that i get about every day and i get to teach people about every day and that excites me alone but from a security ex perspective uh it's very different from on-prem versus cloud and the data in motion as well understanding where your data is how you tag your data how you monitor the data how you layer the protection from the perimeter the critical assets that you have even your endpoints to me the end points should be a last resort but you can't teach people not to click on certain emails you have to work on educating them but you still are going to get those few people to click on those that may launch a a malware with a dropper that infiltrates your network and may take over a server and become a bot now with the right tools in place the layered approach if something like that happens we'll be able to detect that behavior and automatically shut that down to allow your team to focus on more business critical needs and and save you some time and money in in and it's something that would likely happen and it's hard to explain to people that oh i've got all the tools in the world and i'm protected there is so many viruses created on a daily basis you can buy viruses out on the internet and modify them and inject them however you want it whether it's sql injection or other things that a wireless network and becoming man in the middle so many different ways to protect the cloud and you're in your on-prem devices and you have to do that in combination absolutely in combination so from the perimeter in at least in terms of devices such as the kind of things that we would purchase from a cisco or a palo alto could you walk us through securing our enterprise let's assume it's on the cloud from the perimeter and every step along the way sure from from from the perimeter right at the edge you're going to need a nice next-gen firewall you're going to be able to you're going to be able to stop those bad guys that you're that are known uh out and out in the wild you layer that with a ids ips and possibly a second firewall as well you need to be able to monitor activities that are going on whether it's inbound outbound east-west traffic as well internal is one a lot of the theft comes from internal but you have to be able to monitor everything and you have to have the more mod automation that you can build into it more devices that talk to each other and share those hashes that are known bad allows more speed and agility to to react to those type of infiltrations that may happen sure sounds good but is there like a list of things that you would use from the outside in um like i know you mentioned the firewall the ids maybe there's something to protect the subnets maybe the servers that kind of thing could you walk us through sure from a subnet standpoint uh your critical data may be sitting in a subnet uh in a private subnet so you'll want to be able to put in that instance there to be able to separate that access to that nat instance to where you can have access to be able to provide updates to that database uh or that critical data through that nat instance uh you're going to have uh your your network acls your uh sorry i just went blank excuse me uh there's other assets that our providers have that such as built-in ddos protection being able to stop that that's that's a big thing and really easy for hackers to do is to send the toss attacks in and if you're not protected from that it'll shut you down you will not be able to use your servers at all yeah absolutely so actually while we're at it you mentioned ddos auto scaling auto scaling can help with ddos could you describe to us health i need to learn i need to read a little bit more on the capabilities of auto scaling in a cloud on how it actually can protect against ddos attacks just a thought i don't want to guess you don't want me to guess and that's not something that i'm going to allow myself to do so i will have a proper answer for you uh as soon as possible that sounds good since we're on the theme of security what is ipsec i know the answer but i don't know it off the top of my head the proper and that's fair let's let's do a behavioral question as uh so give me a time where the you were not able to meet the client's expectations and what you did about it well that's a good question um i remember this very clearly it was the first time that i was ever walked out of a building with security i was supplying a solution to ibm and and i had to deliver the message that we would not be able to meet their schedule i made the mistake of not bowing in shame that was very offensive to them and they walked out on me or they had me escorted out of the building they were now within a month they were my best client i learned my lesson i delivered the product on the on this on schedule that they uh agreed to allow me to do and i flew that product back over to them and then jumped on a plane and came back home it was a brutal trip but very well worth it and you go above and beyond when it requires do what you have to do that one excellent answer by the way now there's a two percent tuning to that answer that that's going to be your secret weapon we're going to give you that answer was good real good so like this let's do one more behavioral one why should i hire you i get to learn new things every day i get to teach people new things every day i get to solve complex problems i love technology i live technology i don't i don't turn the tv nothing very new regarding okay so halfway there so the fact that you're passionate about technology that excites me as a hiring manager so let's walk through a couple of these things so in the beginning started off good and i asked you how to secure the enterprise from the outside in started off with the firewall with the ids ips systems my goal would be to hear how you say on the cloud we use our firewalls then our ids ips systems in our network access control list then we protect the servers with security groups then we protect our system by disabling unnecessary services putting on anti-malware protection right right adding a host-based firewall i would have liked a little more there i know you know the answer because i know you i mean you definitely know the answers to all of these things and as i relax and get comfortable it just flows out of me with regards to ipsec if you had known if you could have said ipsec as a suiter protocol that provides encryption it provides endpoint verification it provides message integrity checking and it promotes a means to make sure you have non-repudiation meaning the center can't say they didn't see it that would be fine if you would said it was a technology to create vpns by creating a secure environment in a public environment that again would also still be okay um so all of that would be fine so any of these things are good um so i like that i like the way you answered it if you didn't have a solid answer you didn't mislead me and again you were completely horrible now i asked you the question about when you didn't satisfy a customer that was amazing now perfect answer if you if you had said that same thing and said look it was about 20 years ago i'm kind of embarrassed about it i was serving a client in japan we didn't deliver i didn't know to bow and shame so i was escorted out of the building when i got home it hit me very hard and i needed to know the importance of being culturally relative so i went back to my hotel i learned all about culture i went in there and i went back to that customer the next day armed with knowledge of the customer i went to that customer every day for 38 days delighted that customer and that became the company's best customer that answer you had was so solid if you can hit the need to learning to being culturally relative that would take that from an answer that's a 9 out of 10 to a 50 out of 10. i was embarrassed it was so awkward i'm sure you were and i've been there too we've all found ourselves i tried to bring a checkpoint firewall into dubai the room went quiet and i almost got sent to prison i guess you can't bring an israeli product into dubai and i didn't even think of checkpoint being an israeli product but the point is is it's very easy to do now i was young then it was 20 some years ago right i now know when i'm in an arabic country not to bring an israeli product likewise if i was going to do something in israel i probably wouldn't bring something from arabic country do i love going to arabic countries i sure do there are most fun places in the world do i go to israel too and do i go to greece and do i go to turkey sure i don't really care there's great people everywhere but being culturally relative does matter great people everywhere so having said that that would be the thing that makes that a bigger win for you but that was still very solid but again you knew what you knew you didn't you knew what you didn't know you didn't mislead anybody it was likable it was definitive and it was solid good job and i have i'd be sick written down on a piece of paper and i'm going to bury myself in and i know you will you're going to be going home or you're home you're going to be learning about gre tunnels ipsecs and vpns and you know what that's going to enhance your security and your cloud architect portfolio i'm sure of it and it's great but that's what we all do i learned something every single day literally speaking there's not a day that goes by where i don't learn my wife teaches me my students teach me my cat teaches me every day i learn something yep that's what i love about it it's exciting it is that's what's so much fun about tech we will always always always learn there is so much to learn you were very natural and authentic by became very strong thank you yeah that was great that was an another great example that you scared me with the way you started off that behavioral question i'm like oh let's not talk about kid that's scoring off property [Laughter] but then you came in with the save but the way the way that mike rephrased it was don't start off too scary yeah yeah it's a shocker but yeah sometimes you need that to get attention too yeah yeah if you got if you got the interviewee that's like this yeah start off with the uh with that i gotta escort it off but i've got a job with the right picture on the wall behind me you know what i gotta tell you in life there are customers that won't be satisfied one time 20 some years ago it was part of a company that did a 30 layoff and they had a customer that bought something that never worked they threw me in to this customer to go fix it i was at that customer site literally speaking within an hour i had all their ip multicast video things that hadn't worked for years i proceeded to go to lunch the person that was there erased every one of the configurations that i put on every one of those routers and video encoders and everything that had been set up i come back from lunch i've got a shotgun pointing at me you're here and nothing works i disarmed the person from the shotgun thankfully i'm a krav maga expert and martial arts expert and i remember saying now can we go fix your issue so we can get done get done this and and what was clear is they had a person that was so unhappy that i came in for an hour and fix something that they'd been working on for three months that was had an outage every day that i went to lunch and they sabotaged it so the point is no matter how hard you work no matter how emotionally intelligent you're still gonna have one run in now i left that customer very satisfied that day because things work the person that was there no longer worked there and nobody pointed a gun at me since then but the point was you know these things just happened all right yeah thank you very much everyone and you have to stick your head out there and make the mistakes to get better exactly so thank you for coming on no preparation had no idea what this was even going to be on and you did great awesome yep thank you bob that was great all right so the uh the next person we have is from the youtube community uh we've got mauro and let me add morrow in and then we got one per uh one more person after maro so we'll get all right maro are you there hey guys good and if i'm pronouncing your name incorrectly i'm sorry just correct us it's fine it's fine okay mario where are you by the way i'm in cubic weather you're aware oh fantastic yeah wonderful so thank you so much for coming on thrilled to have you participate before i begin since i don't know you what's your background i'm a developer basically a java developer and go along back back end most of the time but um yeah i want to move to the cloud thing architecture roles and this kind of things aws yeah that's my background basically okay so good so we're going to start like everyone else tell me about yourself uh well my name is maura i'm from quite ecuador south america i was a developer for like 20 years i started with very old versions of oracle java i mean the initial versions of this language the java as a language and very initial versions of of oracle um yeah most of the time i was doing grading application enterprise application mobiles um now with the clothing i am trying to move to understand how the cloud works um i'm trying to do go deeper and try to uh yeah try to work on on cloud things creating applications at a bigger scale and this kind of role uh basically but yeah that's my my my background and a little of my summary sounds great it sounds like you've been in tech a really long time i love to hear that could you tell me the difference between block storage and object storage what they are how they work and why an organization would choose to use each one yeah well block storage is is basically um how the objects of how the files are restored in the server the there are uh sometimes some types um basically enough an object storage is uh um more easy to to store to to store uh bigger files instead of okay um sounds good um what maps an ip address to a to a domain name at the end okay great if if you're so you're there in ecuador if i want you to go to a website buy an ip address and i want you to get a spanish webpage instead of an english website and i'm in the us what kind of dns could i use to basically pick up your source ip address and send you a spanish web page um actually i i don't know i i understand there is some configuration about the language but i don't know if there is a dna dna in a specific specific for for this okay um i'll we'll ultimately give you the answers in the end but that's totally fine um could you tell me the difference between a virtual machine and a container well a virtual machine allows emulate a computer installing this operative system and all the things required but a container is a very small you need which is running on under other uh operating systems and uh the best thing of a container is you can have a lot of containers in the in the same machine and every container runs as a process instead of uh virtual machines which runs uh as an entire application and it's easier to to have a lot of containers and in the in the machine instead of a virtual machine because you have uh more resources for containers instead of virtual machine why because every container runs as a process and the virtual machine consume more resources like memory and processors so which one has more power i believe uh [Music] in a container with containers you can have more a lot of containers running at the same time but with a virtual machine you have only you can have only one single virtual machine or multiple mutual machines but you can have a lot of memory and say a lot of memory and resources for each of them okay so we're going to answer we're going to get to all these so i've got three vpcs and i want them to get i want them to talk to each other what are the ways that i can do it if i want them all to be able to talk to each other uh you can have a private gateway and that that that way you can have and softnets and with with that you can i don't remember exactly the component but i guess alberto private gateway which allows communication between uh every vpc okay and you know we're to give you one more i want to i want to get i want to get one for you um what's a content delivery network is uh like um machines sorted in different parts of the of a geographical location which allow make a cache for some resources that make easier and faster to deliver html page i mean every resource faster to it to the client how does it make it faster because are closer and closer to the destination okay um so what we're going to do is we're going to i'm going to give you one more behavioral question we're going to walk through the answers to each of these questions and then i'm going to tell you how to answer them better for for when it's an actual interview i do this for myself i'm doing it for some of my students that are there you're doing great i just want to make sure that you're taking part and we're so grateful and i want to give you some value so that you can win on your next interview so let's give you one more let's give you a behavioral question because a lot of these things kind of come come up so let's see what would be pretty good for you tell me about you know what you do when you have multiple projects going on so you make sure you to make sure that you you don't lose track or lose focus um well when i have a lot of projects trying to when i have many projects from the same time i am always trying to make up your uh prioritize which is the most urgent and much most important in terms of uh of a time of datelines i'm trying to save more time depending of the deadlines if i have a project more closer to expire so i i will assign more resources more more time and more effort to that project and in that way assignment to the rest of our projects that's the way i'm doing good that was good real good now here's the next question and i wasn't going to do it but i'm going to do it because this is a real thing that can really help you do you have any questions for me yeah yeah yeah well have many questions uh i hope this is the first time i have an opportunity to talk with you um yeah i'm trying to move from from this background to uh cloud things um i don't know it's uh how how easy is uh how do you consider easy to to move to cloud architecture roles or maybe try to move to more architecture application architectures so i don't know what what do you do what do you think about mov2 cloud architecture considering my background okay so i'm going to answer that that wasn't actually what i was trying to do i was trying to give you the interview when you're in an interview the interviewer asks do you have any more questions um that's a chance for you to further sell yourself but let's actually answer your question then we'll dissect your interview so what the answer to your question is i went from practicing medicine to architect inside of six months i think these architectural roles are amazing i take people with no background and get them cloud architect hard every day of the week i take software developers and get them hired every day of the week i take network engineers and get them hired every day of the week someone's background doesn't really matter to me what matters me is energy enthusiasm and attitude someone's willing to work hard they can learn it you could and will become a great cloud architect if you desire to be too easily easily easy for someone like you when i train you it typically takes me about 16 weeks for someone with a good background in technology to get them hired as a cloud architect and in that what we have to teach you is this following and then i'm going to go through the interview we have to teach you how to design systems end to end and what do we need what are you designing you're designing network and data center technology so we have to teach those network and data center technologies because the cloud is all about the network and the data center not necessarily the applications so we'd have to do that we'd have to teach the business acumen some communication skills and you would do great that last thing that last question i answered you how do you deal with multiple things going on at the same time you answered that like an i.t expert with 20 years experience perfectly so you have all of the skeleton of the perfect cloud architect oh that you need to learn it's just a different piece of technology which again would be nothing the processes the procedures all of it everything that you're used to it's all the same the only thing that changes is the tool so let's go back into this interview so you did what you answered sounded strong and solid now there's a little bit of competency that we need to address but again someone with you and your background and that level experience can do a great you're answering in an interview in a language that's not even yours with perfect english i mean seriously great job that english was perfect living in ecuador when i worked when i worked in panama my spanish wasn't that good i tried but it wasn't that good but i mean so first impressive now when we're dealing with block storage and object storage they're both types of storage area networks meaning they're these big giant raid arrays that are full of hard drives and the speed is limited by the network now object storage is a different kind of storage it's very strange storage it's like a database the data is broken down into objects and basically it's a database with a pointer to your data which is in the form of the object now what makes object storage so unique is it's good for you write once read many times object storage when it takes the data and it breaks it down it breaks it down into an object which means it stores data are metadata about the object metadata is unique to object storage and it makes object storage so useful so i want you to think about this we take our data we break it down into an object and it's got metadata so think of a big data environment well metadata you can search your data think about looking for parts of a file there so so object storage think big data think software distribution think it cannot be used by a server so it's like you ftping something somewhere but you're using s3 or blob on microsoft or cloud storage so think about that in terms of object storage software distribution storing files static websites now think of block storage by comparison as another type of storage area network but it looks and feels like a local hard drive and you can use object i'm sorry block storage for files that change frequently so you can put an operating system on it you can store your data on it it'll look and feel like a hard drive so in the cloud you use a network drive called the block storage drive to mount it like a hard drive it's not a local hard drive it just feels like it whereas object storage by comparison is storage that is stored for software distribution purposes not usable by host does that make sense okay yeah oh i see alonzo's here so alonzo welcome um good to see you my good friend great cloud architect as well so there's that now let's go through some of the questions we actually talked to you about so i asked a couple of questions i don't remember all the questions can anybody from the group remind me these questions because i really want to address some of them the bpc the connection between okay and you have two so a vpc or a virtual private cloud is really like an organization's virtual private data center so that's where you put your servers and your things so if you've got a vpc and you want to connect to another vpc you just pair them together you connect them together through vpc pairing and you can share the information so when you've got two vpcs you can just do vpc peering if you've got three vpcs every vpc has to connect to every vpc so you either need to do fully mesh vpc pairing where everybody connects to everybody or you need to use something like transit gateway or cloud hub that enables cabin spoke environments so that was one of them that we're talking about to connect two vpcs to share information you do vpc pairing there was another one that i wanted to address that um we needed to give you do you remember what that was if not chris from my team or somebody will be a cdn oh a content delivery network so what a content delivery network is it is a network meaning routers switches and cables wide area networks and it has a bunch of locations spread throughout the world so what happens is i'm sitting here in say west palm beach florida i want to go to reach the go cloud careers website i go type on my browser www.gocloudcareers.com my browser and hits my computer my computer does the dns lookup and it finds the ip address it finds that my closest ip address is actually the content delivery network in miami so my request gets routed to miami now miami is closer to me than california where my web server is so what will happen is i will go to miami now when i go to miami what's going to occur is if the data is there it's going to be sent to me directly and that will give me better performance because it'll go from miami than california you're with me right now yeah but if it's not in miami here's what's going to happen i'm going to enter the content delivery network in miami it's not there it's not cached the content delivery network will then hit the regional cache which is probably somewhere local and then if it's not there it will ride the amazon network or the akamine network or whoever's content delivery network you have all the way back to your web server instead of the public internet it'll ride the private network which is faster guaranteed performance so it'll ride the content delivery network to your web server it'll go from your web server to the regional cache to the miami cache and then be given to me now that's how i get it the next person in south florida that wants to receive that same website before the cash times out will go to miami and be seen so it releases the lead from the servers does that make sense do you see how that works it's writing a private network and it's caching okay now when we talked about mapping a name to an ip address with dns you got it you were 100 correct there are a couple of dns options a simple dns mapping or a type a record is when you map a single name to an ip address www go call careers to an ip address a geo location routing policy will sense that you're in ecuador by your ip address and because it sees that your ip address is in ecuador and it will say spanish is the primary language spoken in ecuador let's serve you a spatial speaking page that's geolocation routing now with dns we could also do weighted routing so you're an application developer let's say you've made a new website in an old website let's say you wanted to shift 10 of the traffic to the new website and keep 90 on the old one to test it out that's where you would use something like a weighted routing policy in dns where you'd send 10 to 1 90 to another and then all of a sudden everybody likes the new website move all the traffic to the new website does that make sense yeah yeah yeah and then let's do one more kind of dns policy for you let's talk about so we've talked about geolocation we talked about load sharing i'm not going to go into the random one so let's talk about a cname record so i started this company gocloudarchitects.com and then made an interview course i've got san diego as my good friend in india making a devops engineering course all of a sudden i work with some leaders from cisco and from other great companies and we have a leadership course i'm no longer go cloud architecture now go careers what is that kind of record where i can map one domain to another domain do you know what that's called uh well um it's your name exactly it's like an alias record or a cname record so good job so the answer is you got that so the key is got really strong software background which gives you a tremendous tech background which makes you stand out on paper great we just need to teach you a little bit more networking and data center things and that's all it's going to take you to go from where you're at on the application side to the cloud i could sex side some network and data center knowledge because that's the club okay good job mara hey chris thank you very good job yeah thank you guys all right nice job thank you it was awesome this opportunity was was awesome thank you so much yeah well we're glad that you that you uh completed the forum and got back to us because we were we're excited to give people this opportunities we really are we love reaching out to the community next week we're going to have a free aws advanced networking training course on our youtube channel if you can attend please do so it's completely free okay hello yeah so yeah let's hear it for here for tomorrow let me put all these comments seriously seriously for tomorrow he came in he volunteered let's give everybody a round of applause he did great yep he did great i'm right well we've got one more person left i'm gonna keep i'm gonna keep putting these comments in as they are coming in yeah thank you thank you for stopping by i'm seriously all right so let me get through some of these uh some of these comments and then we'll add ryan in ryan will be the last person for the uh for the day sounds great i'm so it was so much fun doing this i love every time we have a chance to get to talk to people yeah i i really i've really enjoyed this and in case you haven't noticed i'm wearing a freaking coat in my office because i was wondering that yeah yeah we got issues with the with the air conditioning over here it's working really well said to be a refrigerator everybody's cold except for the cat with her fur and my room turns out to be 90 degrees between all these uh eight specialty light bulbs coming from one angle and the other light bulbs coming from another angle and i've got 64 cores of workstation working on me and a couple of gpus just to stream this so i feel like i never get to stop sweating that's why i think i drink two gallons of water a day yeah yeah with uh with this freaking nor'easter that we've got in florida today and then the and then the uh air conditioner literally not going off i'm freezing all right so if you want to pop in go don't worry um you don't have to be chicken if not we'll i'll try and do this one more time in the future because i love interacting with the community oh i got a feeling i'm going to be planning some stuff in the future all right so let's do a little bit let's let's add ryan in and uh you know ended on a high note no pressure ryan no pressure absolutely ryan how are you doing great how are you doing doing great so ryan has the coolest social media handle i have ever seen in my entire life it's perez the dev and when i saw that the first time i thought that was really really cool so right absolutely so happy to be here thank you so ryan thank you for coming in to talk to abc cloud service it's really nice to have you here so could you tell me a little bit about your background you look awfully young but you but i'm real happy to meet you absolutely uh thank you well my name is ryan perez i'm a creative and analytical i.t professional i'm passionate about technology business and people i've spent the last seven years working and collaborating uh with people to problem solve and really just get the job done i decided to transition to cloud as i love tech really designing and working with people i absolutely love love love to learn uh problem solving and i'm highly energetic and disciplined sounds great to me you know we're always looking for people that are motivated so um what'd you study in school currently i'm studying uh computer science and as well as a minor in finance as like i said i really love business and i want to better understand the business side of technology as well fantastic so um you like the business side you like the technology so what do you think architects actually do because i need cloud architects that actually can really do a good job what's a cloud architect do in your mind well a cloud architect will go ahead and meet with executives meet with leaders of of different companies to go ahead and really uh will first of course understand what the needs of their current customers business you know for multiple different clients and then to go ahead and design the best pro possible solution architecture wise for their for the kind what's your uh level of experience working in teams um i've worked with teams for about the last seven years as well uh collaborating with teams and working directly with people okay um you know i don't normally get people your age that are interviewing for these big jobs but you seem pretty competent so you know what clouds have you worked with uh well i've mainly been working on aws working in the aws cloud uh and i've also been uh taking a look at some gcp cloud as well but i've mainly focused on aws and as i grow my understanding within the data center networking of course i want to further go down aws and build my competency as well within gcp okay that sounds like a great i'm pretty familiar with both clouds they both have great clouds so how would you connect the data center to the cloud it can be gcp it can be aws i don't care um what what are the design considerations that you think about absolutely so to connect your data center over to the cloud there are two considerations you really want to think of you have your uh direct connection uh which would go ahead and you would pretty much connect from your data center to the cloud with much more consistent throughput whereas something like the vpn it's it has ipsec so it encrypts all your data but it's not as uh durable for latency so with vpn you don't really want to use it if you need something with low latency that's where your direct connection will really come through so you have those two opportunities of either direct connection or vpn to connect your data center to the cloud nice okay so what makes the direct connection have less latency or less variations in latency than the vpn that you're describing uh i that would be the uh the link aggregation you would have the links just directly connected they're all bundled pretty much you take four different links let's say you bundle them together and provides for faster okay all right so we'll we'll go back to that one but you know you're doing great so let's figure out what i should so what is active directory and why would an organization use it well active directory is simply a way to go ahead and manage your different users and a different groups within the organization you would simply use it to as you say the the aaa you would go ahead and make sure users aren't accessing things they don't really have permissions to access in order to uh really implement the least privilege and make sure you keep your things running and secure okay if you have two direct connections to aws running bgp and they're equal cost do you have anything you need to think about to make sure you don't get out of order packets uh yes but i haven't had the opportunity to go ahead and really dive into that just yet but i can happily learn and really dive into it later on absolutely good and unless you're a cci network architect chances are you haven't done that and that was the right way to answer that so great job um so let's let's talk about this so how would you let's say i wanted to create a disaster recovery environment of my data center and i wanted to i wanted to cost the least amount possible but i needed to be up and 100 fully operational with in uh 45 minutes oh hi cindy um within 45 minutes to an hour of the system's uh of of an outage what could i do how can i make that work could you pick can you repeat the first part again please so i'm interested in setting up a disaster recovery environment for my data center i'd like to use the cloud to do it what can we do what type of environment would i set up on the cloud that after a failure at my data center the systems would be up at full capacity and fully operational within 45 minutes to an hour with no manual intervention how would i set that up um i haven't had the experience just yet to dive into that but i can definitely go ahead and look into that and i'm really motivated to learn more about that okay and you're doing great um so let's give you one more technical one and that one well i'll tell you how you would do it um within 45 minutes because you're not going to use hot standby and you're not going to use cold standby that one's going to take uh some some some tuning but it's definitely the way to do it so we'll talk about the last uh the last technical question that i'll give you let's try and find one find a good one for you on my list over here um so what's the so what is meant by stateful when i start talking about firewalls being stateful absolutely so when you have your firewall and in consideration of course the stateful you have um your internal user that goes outside of the firewall to go ahead and access you know resources out on the public internet and so when it go when the user goes ahead back into the firewall back inside their internal network the firewall is able to pretty much track that connection back in it recognizes oh okay it's mike from go cloud architects coming back it goes ahead and recognizes the user and allows it back in and of course making sure no one else has access to the internal okay great so it's stateful meaning the firewall is tracking the connection or what's going on and that's how it knows to allow the return traffic back good job really nice job so um what is a the elastic file system and when would the elastic file system be used absolutely so elastic file system you could think of it like your your normal file system on your machine you have your different files i think elastic file system is really great because you can have multiple users access um that file storage so you can have multiple people go ahead and access the data within that so i think it's actually a really great service provided by aws what kind of servers can access the elastic file system um what kind of services access the the file system what kind of servers are mac servers windows servers linux servers i'm actually not sure of specifics to be honest okay that's right okay so we'll work through all these details for you so the elastic file system is is the amazon branded version of sun micro systems now oracle's network file system who uses nfs what kind of servers can mount an nfs volume can windows servers do that or windows devices so it's unix and linux so unix and linux use the network file system windows uses the server message block approach yeah now let's go back to the disaster recovery because you did really good i mean really good so because you were doing really good i kept throwing harder questions at you because you were doing really really good so let's talk about your four options on disaster recovery option one is you've got your data center you make a backup of your virtual machines and a backup of all your data and you store it in the cloud option one for disaster recovery disaster occurs here's what you do you turn all those machine images into virtual machines you launch them you take your data out of s3 you move it onto servers or wherever it needs to be 12 hours later your cloud's up and operational and you're up so is that faster or is that slow it's pretty slow it's pretty slow that's 12 hours take copies of your virtual machines copies of all your data keep it in the cloud but you keep a database running in the cloud and you synchronize the database between your data center and the cloud so they're synchronized now might only take you 10 hours to come up in the event of an average because at least your databases are synchronized is that going to work for most businesses no absolutely now let's talk about option three which is the one i want you to use this is not a hot standby it's more of a warm standby protocol there's a million and one names for these ridiculous things pilot light warm standby all those names are nonsense to me i want you to understand how it works this is you take all your stuff and you create little mini instances in the cloud if you've got 100 web servers you put one web server in the cloud if you've got 100 app servers you put one app server in the cloud all behind load balancers then you set up an auto scaling policy so something happens in your data center dns notices it via the health check dns reroutes you to the cloud all this traffic hits your load balancers and web servers which can't access all of the information and because not all of it can be accessed auto scaling basically scales up and it will take 45 minutes to an hour for this environment to truly work so that is what's probably best for the majority of organizations do you know how expensive it is to have a backup copy of your data center in the cloud a lot sure it's very expensive yeah how cheap it is to have a 50 virtual machines running and have an auto scaling policy they just grow as needed how awesome is that beauty of the cloud it is the beauty of the cloud it is amazing it is awesome and those are the reasons why so that is why we do this the last option would be if you've got a thousand servers in your data center you have a thousand servers in the cloud and that's identical that's a hot standby now we don't need that here there are banks that need that there are healthcare organizations that need that so really building all of this is about the availability system so you answered those two great now there was a technical question before that i don't remember do you remember what it was um you asked about the file system okay so we talked a little bit about file systems as we mentioned nfs is used for lindo server message block for windows there were a couple of others we did you had done really great on what the architects do that initial you know tell me about yourself that is welcoming they were really rock solid you also did something that i really love so your yuck now in your case that's working against you but you played to your strengths so when if you're 70 or if you're 20 you're not in that generic 35 to 55 which is the best place to be an architect where people assume you've got some wisdom and experience but you're not too young and you're not too old so when you're young at your age what i need to do is as follows the gestures you used when you spoke were great they added more executive presence and gravitas okay you spoke a little too fast so we have to balance this with you because you are so young and when you're young your strength is the speed of learning the ability to remember things and the energy level that you have which people like me that are older don't have so that is your strength so we want to get you to speak quickly to show energy enthusiasm and passion but we still need to raise that at gravitas without presence so i would say let's slow it down 10 so what i want you to do is follow us because you were solid and not just a little solid but rock solid i mean that was awesome i mean that was really great so i want to make it a little more so tell me about something you know a lot about just pick something you're an expert on i don't care what it is uh well i really enjoy within technology anything i really enjoy personal development yoga i don't care just tell me something that you know a lot about and you love i really enjoy personal development and um and um productivity read a lot of books on it as well okay tell me why you enjoy it uh well i really enjoy a lot about personal development because i'm always i'm very always very hungry to continually grow and learn about the world grow my perspective as well as really share that knowledge with other people as well very passionate about educating other people as i go on my journey as well and really trying to improve myself from the day before i think is really one of my main missions in life okay very solid no i want to i want to do it a little differently okay i like professional development because and then make your first point pause emphasize it make your next point pause emphasize that next point collect your thoughts slow it down ten percent let's give it a shot all right well i really and i really enjoy personal and professional development because i love the fact that as i continuously learn and grow i can go ahead and help other people around me so i'm very passionate about helping elevate not just myself but the people family friends and community around me um improve from the day before i also really love professional development as my main mission in life is to continually improve for myself from the day before and so i think with learning from other people in this sense books i can definitely grow my perspective my understanding and eventually become a master at the craft much better now i want you to try i want to get you to straight ceo level right now because you're so coachable and so tunable i want to get you i want to teach you how to act like a ceo at 22 years old or whatever age you want so just 10 23 23 okay whatever that is that's just amazing like my like alonso says way ryan is wise behind his ears so honestly you're doing great so i like professional development because it enables me to get better every day try it that way i get better every day just try something like i like professional development because hit it hard make a point hit your next point hammer at home slow methodical and use the gestures because i feel you you've got some presence it's good okay i really like professional development because it helps me become better every single day as i continue to learn and expand my perspective on the world i can continually improve every single day and help and better help other people along with me okay everybody in the audience did you see the difference did you feel the difference ryan did you feel the difference yes absolutely much more clear and i was able to articulate much better i had to take the shirt take the jacket off it's so hot that was awesome i'm so happy you're one of our students you're 23 years old you're doing better than people that i can't even imagine would do with 20 years experience wow awesome if i was like that when i was 23 i'm 35 by the way if i was like that at 23. oh my oh my god you look so young thank you by the way yeah you can't see the grays no i can't yeah it's the lighting i do it on purpose but if i was like that uh if i was like if i had what's where you are when you were when i was 23 i can only imagine after 12 years where i would be now i mean where you're gonna be when you're my age is astronomical i mean it's exponential i i can't i can't i'm my words are not coming out you're 25 years old i'm like so excited that you're my student because i can't even imagine what's going to happen at 24. i mean that was and you're you're coachable also very coachable i mean that was just really really great so we've interviewed a bunch of people we've provided some feedback now what questions came out of the day because if anybody has any questions i want to make sure we close them answer your questions and get all of you prepared to be cloud hired yeah let me get all these uh get all these comments about ryan up here like i did for everybody else right right we want to follow up with a question yeah um just just i know for like an interview i'm curious to provide some value to the community what would you say um all right let me put in the structure before um what does it really take to go ahead and be a successful cloud architect in the organization and that would be a great question and what i would say and i'll give you a slightly different way to answer that question but and then if i would answer it i would say what i'm looking for are people that have strong technical competencies stellar customer service skills highly emotionally intelligent great team players and can bring out the best in others that's what i would say now what's the best question to ask someone when they have any more questions that excellent excellent excellent again your wives behind your ears you know what else would be could you tell me what you could you tell me what's most important to you and that way if i was part of your team i know i could make you successful yeah what is going on about getting their problems solved so you did a really great job so pretty good amount of emotional intelligence granted you've done some training and some reading there at your young age obviously you're far more emotionally intelligent than the average 23 year old or 33 year old um did a great job on that presentation clearly that's why you won that contest when we had a promotion contest to see right the best social media post to promote something and when we saw it we were blown away so extraordinarily extraordinarily good job now mr mike you're gonna do great there's a gentleman here adam on this call that's also young who also impresses me every five minutes with what he's done i've got another daniel who's pretty smart i've got lots of young people and they all do wonderful but i gotta tell you i am really excited that is a way to finish off an interview day one of my students does something like that and i'm blown blown blown away like i said we picked people from all over um you happen to be one of my students i've had a few of my students um i've had some other people that are not i don't really care i was just happy and honored to bring people together from the world and try and do some interview catching great job awesome all right i'm going to bring everybody back in and then so you can thank everybody and then we'll close it out i'll let you close it out by yourself mike but just bring everybody in so you can think and thank them all right i've got everybody that's still here yeah which is really great so first you know thank you for coming on i know this is a scary thing it's scary being on an interview as is and it's even scarier being on it live in a forum with the whole world to sleep but you know whether it was avita or moro or bob or whitfield or jazz or amaranth or ryan i mean you guys were amazing today great job all of you seriously that's a round of applause for every one of these guys they worked hard you know this is seriously impressive stuff so highly highly highly recommend it you guys did great super super super super happy and ryan i see ryan white's got a question or two so we'll we'll pick up questions in the end i want to make sure we answer everybody's questions but you guys all did great thanks a little bit of housekeeping while we're waiting next week we have a free aws advanced networking course i'd like all of my own students to attend and anybody else on the internet that wants to please do so chris could you pop a link to that free registration and pop it in the chat box on youtube definitely a round of applause for you guys you guys did amazing mike if i can say one thing so i'm proud of everybody that participated it takes a lot of guts a lot of people join last minute and you know it's nerve-wracking i'm really proud of you all thank you so much for giving the support to the audience thank you so much everyone thanks yeah i'd like to piggyback on that like like jay said there was a lot of last-minute people that joined some people from the community like morrow and chris and whitfield that that signed up through our registration for a chance to take part uh along with the students um and i know there's a lot of people that wanted to and weren't quite sure of themselves one of those being amaranth and he was like all right i'm just going to do it and lo and behold he was awesome so i think i think all of you guys and girls getting on here and doing this i think uh i hope that it goes a long way to showing some of those other people that might have been on the on the line like amarath was who who may not be fully confident themselves maybe this pushes them over the edge to realize okay i can do it i'm ready i can i mean i can start taking some shots um because you're not gonna you won't succeed until you start taking the shots so and that that is actually if you don't ever go step up to the plate you can never win so what is it that's the guy that never watches sports that's true i i i've not been to a baseball game in my youth i don't understand football the american one or the european one very much i think it's i know it's about taking a ball from one side of the sport to the other but i know a lot about martial arts and olympic gymnastics and competitive swimming and doing triathlons and a little weightlifting just nothing with a ball because they're the sports i haven't played but you know there's that so ryan white asked a very good question how do you become more emotionally intelligent yeah i gotta find i can't find it so i'm gonna go ahead and take everybody else off the screen um including myself and leave my computer thank you everybody for taking part in this thank you thank you you guys did amazingly well thank you for having us guys there we go all right thank you i'm going to remove everybody else from the studio so you guys are free to go you're no longer held captive you can play on youtube whichever you like we like to hold people hostage um so let's make sure we answer ryan white's question ryan wanted to know about how to become more emotionally intelligent and ryan emotional intelligence is the biggest predictor of your long-term success ryan emotional intelligence has to do with the ability of to control your emotions as well as the ability to control other people's emotions so there's a lot of things that you can do there's a and daniel goldman and richard baiatas came up with the term emotional intelligence about 25 years ago or so i would read their books they've got some very good information there quite frankly we do a couple of things we use the daniel goldman methods we use all the emotional intelligence methods that i got taught when you know in the practice of medicine because we have to do a lot of things with regards to emotional intelligence and medicine so we happened to teach that ryan now i will tell you if you can control your emotion then and manage it you'll be better so if you can do some form of meditation i'll tell you one of the things that i do ryan i practice yoga yoga is a breathing exercise now yoga can help um there's some things with regards to cognitive behavioral therapy to take your thoughts and control your thoughts but realistically speaking how do you become emotionally intelligent or more emotionally intelligent i'll give you a couple of guidelines one ryan be incredibly open-minded when people tell you things just listen don't ever judge them and people will be willing to take you things ask open-ended questions again open-minded you can't afford to be judgmental ever so learn how to become learn how to be open-minded now the key skill of emotional intelligence is actually empathy it's one of the most critical skills empathy ryan is seeing things from another person's perspective so focus on you know how do you see things from another person's perspective i strongly strongly recommend that now that by the way is the most critical skill study empathy you can learn empathy from the business world but you know what you can basically in healthcare there's going to be some good lessons on how to be more apathetic empathetic is seeing things from another perspective which is different than sympathy which is feeling bad for someone in the course of their struggle so there's learn how to control your emotions through a combination of meditation or be cognitive behavior therapy which are things that you can look there's a good book called feeling good by david burns it is an old old old old self-help book and normally speaking i wouldn't talk about it but i did my clinical rotations at the university of pennsylvania that had albert ellis and david burns the founders of cognitive behavior therapy cognitive behavior therapy is used by navy seals it's used by olympians and other high performance people to be able to take a negative thought and turn it into a positive thought which is really necessary to be there so ryan wright i'd say a few things focus on your empathy focus on being open-minded focusing on asking opening a question and being able to do that that will help a lot and then focus on learning how to keep yourself calm and manage other people's emotions so i do yoga now ryan i know where you're at i will tell you practicing yoga outside i live in a jamaican neighborhood and listening to kali buds while you're doing your yoga meditation is probably not the best musician to be living for um but having said that any kind of meditation you have my phrase into meditation is listening to reggae music and practicing ashtanga yoga that's my version of meditation but whatever it takes to be there is realistically good so i like a little bit of cognitive behavior therapy i love the work of daniel goldman and richard boyatz's thing it was richard bayatas i definitely like all the empathy training that i received in medicine so i would say look up empathy definitely do the emotional intelligence book at minimum from the biathas and goldman folks and that should give you a great starting point ryan and then ryan if you've got any questions you know how to reach me i think you're doing great especially for your age you're doing amazingly amazingly well daniel mitra what do you think of of mentoring and teamwork experiences skills from volunteering outside of one's professional experience daniel i think they are incredible incredible experiences and leading sports teams leading children leading people turns you into a great leader so i think it's a wonderful idea daniel i've learned a lot of leadership by being a crew chief as a paramedic and other kinds of cool things i don't care where it is it can be from volunteer work it's experience it's leadership it counts life is cumulative and i think it's amazing definitely feel strongly about that chinton i want to buy stock and ryan's future too whatever he's going to do we know is going to do really well i'm 100 on a great movie chintan mesophan okay messifen i always love that frog that you have there um so mess finn the book is called feeling good the author is david burns and i might might might even have a copy i usually keep about 101 copies of this book because what happens is i occasionally still practice medicine as a volunteer and usually somebody's having a hard time in their life and i give them this book this is the book it's an old book it's called feeling good by david burns md it is based upon cognitive behavior therapy here is the thing of this book and why i like this book humans all make ten thinking errors here's a thinking er if there's a hundred people on this call and 99 of you give me a thumbs up and one of you gives me a thumbs down the thinking error would be to focus on the one person that said something negative not that 99 that's had something positive so the point is you know we all have 10 thinking errors and those 10 thinking errors affect our thoughts which cause anxiety which caused depression which caused us to lose our cool and when we lose our cold we lose our emotional intelligence so deep breathing meditation controlling your thoughts all very valuable things so global got that for you messifen any other questions chris no i think that's it okay well it's 5 24 it's a friday please join us next week for the free aws advanced networking training it's going to be a ton of fun um chris and is there any things that i need to mention um so we got the oh well you know the whole day was about interviews and there's there's this thing that we have you know up here about interviews oh okay yeah so what chris is trying to tell us is we have an interview preparation program that we've made with the folks over at it excel they have 20 recruiters in new york that each have 20 years experience so that's 400 years experience plus my 20 some years experience we have a complete and total interview mastery program that we're releasing in two weeks anything else that i don't know him to talk about chris um let's see mr youtube you gotta ask them to hit the like button oh please hit the like button and subscribe i'm learning how to use youtube by the day and you gotta ask them to oh nobody's done a class oh yeah here we go you gotta ask them to do this right here okay cloud hired um learning how to use social media platforms i've been an architect for decades i'm loving the social media enables me to connect to people but i'm learning hard that we have to smash the like button forward to other people because there's algorithms involved and if we don't hit the algorithms nobody sees the content then we can't help anybody so thank you for reminding me chris hey that's my job among many other things among many other things oh so yeah so that's everything i got a feeling there's going to be a lot of cloud hired so i'm just going to keep clicking the button here i hope so yeah i love that awake alert and oriented so so we do have the uh we've got the boot camp next week aws advanced networking there's a lot of disappointed people for ccna because they just didn't get out the vote and let aws advanced networking win by one vote so we've got aws advanced networking next week and i've got a feeling mike's going to do ccna eventually there may be a ccna i might be working with a really great cloud architect to possibly put together an azure one somebody on this call who's really really really solid and i might be working on that in our spare time um so you know if that occurs you know i've got a friend who's a little bit like james bond um he's really good at helping put these things together hmm yeah there's one guy that looks like james bond right there well all right well this has been a great day i've enjoyed it so i'm not saying that's who it is but there are people that i'm definitely going to be working with to try and uh do some cool azure stuff too um because you know learn the cloud not a vendor but you know we still want you to get familiar with everything that's out there so yeah have a really wonderful weekend it's such an honor and a privilege to be part of this community honestly i'm honored just for being part of this uh thank you for inviting me anything that we can do to help you have the best cloud computing careers please let us know have a absolutely wonderful weekend

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Length: 175min 10sec (10510 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 05 2021