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In addition to our intensive courses, we also host satellite events such as workshops, skillshares, and demonstrations in collaboration with community centers, hackerspaces and hacklabs, and other groups across New York City, and elsewhere via Internet video conference. These events are a low-commitment way to get a feel for our more intensive courses as well as meet some of our teaching team.
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Computer Language Foundations: Command Line Basics
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Privacy Defender Webinar Ticket $70Privacy Defender tickets are the recommended ticket type for those who can afford to help fund the digital security and online privacy advocacy communities with their financial resources, are attending the workshop with the support of their employers or other backers, or have other resources available to them. Purchasing tickets at this level makes it possible for us to offer reduced price tickets to those in need.
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You have read about people who can talk to machines. Maybe you imagined secret chambers, hidden away behind locked doors, with dark rooms basking in blue from electric fires. Some of these people seemed friendly, others scary, but all of them were powerful. How did they learn to communicate with… (read more)Performances by
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The Imitation Game: Introduction to Administering Virtual Machine Systems
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Privacy Defender Webinar Ticket $70Privacy Defender tickets are the recommended ticket type for those who can afford to help fund the digital security and online privacy advocacy communities with their financial resources, are attending the workshop with the support of their employers or other backers, or have other resources available to them. Purchasing tickets at this level makes it possible for us to offer reduced price tickets to those in need.
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Reduced price admission (for queer-identified, femme, and BIPOC people) $25Reduced price workshop tickets help offset systemic biases prevalent in society and in the technology sector especially.
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This workshop is a practical introduction to creating, using, and administering virtual machine (VM) systems. Even if you’ve never heard of a virtual machine before, you probably already use the underlying technology. And you can get a lot out of using a virtual machine even if you aren’t a software… (read more)Performances by
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Writing with Blue Fire: Shell Scripting for Beginners
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Privacy Defender Webinar Ticket $70Privacy Defender tickets are the recommended ticket type for those who can afford to help fund the digital security and online privacy advocacy communities with their financial resources, are attending the workshop with the support of their employers or other backers, or have other resources available to them. Purchasing tickets at this level makes it possible for us to offer reduced price tickets to those in need.
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Reduced price admission (for queer-identified, femme, and BIPOC people) $25Reduced price workshop tickets help offset systemic biases prevalent in society and in the technology sector especially.
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Thank you for purchasing a ticket to our upcoming “Writing with Blue Fire: Shell Scripting for Beginners” webinar. Please allow several minutes for delivery of your webinar access credentials to the email address associated with your payment processor account. Remember to check your spam folder, as well!
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Learn how to inscribe your thoughts, dreams, and desires into your computer and take your command line skills to the next level by learning how to write simple programs called shell scripts. In a way, invoking commands one at a time is like writing a program interactively, whereas writing a… (read more)Performances by
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Securing Email: Protecting Everyday Communications from GMail to ProtonMail
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Privacy Defender Webinar Ticket $70Privacy Defender tickets are the recommended ticket type for those who can afford to help fund the digital security and online privacy advocacy communities with their financial resources, are attending the workshop with the support of their employers or other backers, or have other resources available to them. Purchasing tickets at this level makes it possible for us to offer reduced price tickets to those in need.
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Reduced price admission (for queer-identified, femme, and BIPOC people) $25Reduced price workshop tickets help offset systemic biases prevalent in society and in the technology sector especially.
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Thank you for purchasing a ticket to our upcoming “Securing Email: Protecting Everyday Communications from GMail to ProtonMail” webinar. Please allow several minutes for delivery of your webinar access credentials to the email address associated with your payment processor account. Remember to check your spam folder, as well!
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This workshop shows you how to keep your emails private regardless of what email provider you use. By learning how to use the freely and widely available Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) cryptosystem in email, you will see how easy it is to not only encrypt messages so that they remain… (read more)Performances by
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Shields Up: Firewalls and Other Network Perimeter Defenses
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Privacy Defender Webinar Ticket $70Privacy Defender tickets are the recommended ticket type for those who can afford to help fund the digital security and online privacy advocacy communities with their financial resources, are attending the workshop with the support of their employers or other backers, or have other resources available to them. Purchasing tickets at this level makes it possible for us to offer reduced price tickets to those in need.
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Reduced price admission (for queer-identified, femme, and BIPOC people) $25Reduced price workshop tickets help offset systemic biases prevalent in society and in the technology sector especially.
Prices shown may exclude nominal handling fees.
Thank you for purchasing a ticket to our upcoming “Shields Up: Firewalls and Other Network Perimeter Defenses” webinar. Please allow several minutes for delivery of your webinar access credentials to the email address associated with your payment processor account. Remember to check your spam folder, as well!
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Master the fundamentals of personal and enterprise-grade network firewalls in this hands-on workshop about network perimeter security. By learning to use the macOS, Windows, BSD, and Linux firewalls (including command-line utilities like iptables, nft, and pfctl), you can protect your devices even on untrustworthy or hostile networks, like public Wi-Fi.… (read more)Performances by
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Two Places at Once: Understanding Virtual Private Networks
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Privacy Defender Webinar Ticket $70Privacy Defender tickets are the recommended ticket type for those who can afford to help fund the digital security and online privacy advocacy communities with their financial resources, are attending the workshop with the support of their employers or other backers, or have other resources available to them. Purchasing tickets at this level makes it possible for us to offer reduced price tickets to those in need.
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Reduced price admission (for queer-identified, femme, and BIPOC people) $25Reduced price workshop tickets help offset systemic biases prevalent in society and in the technology sector especially.
Prices shown may exclude nominal handling fees.
Thank you for purchasing a ticket to our upcoming “Two Places at Once: Understanding Virtual Private Networks” webinar. Please allow several minutes for delivery of your webinar access credentials to the email address associated with your payment processor account. Remember to check your spam folder, as well!
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Find out how Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) can help you evade Internet censorship, protect your network traffic, and offer easier access to remote services on firewalled internal networks. You’ll learn how to set up and use OpenVPN, a free and widely-deployed VPN solution, so that you can connect securely to… (read more)Performances by
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Anonymous Publishing on the Darknet
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Privacy Defender Webinar Ticket $70Privacy Defender tickets are the recommended ticket type for those who can afford to help fund the digital security and online privacy advocacy communities with their financial resources, are attending the workshop with the support of their employers or other backers, or have other resources available to them. Purchasing tickets at this level makes it possible for us to offer reduced price tickets to those in need.
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Reduced price admission (for queer-identified, femme, and BIPOC people) $25Reduced price workshop tickets help offset systemic biases prevalent in society and in the technology sector especially.
Prices shown may exclude nominal handling fees.
Thank you for purchasing a ticket to our upcoming “Down the Rabbit Hole: Anonymous Publishing on the Darknet” webinar. Please allow several minutes for delivery of your webinar access credentials to the email address associated with your payment processor account. Remember to check your spam folder, as well!
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Get your message out without revealing who you are by publishing anonymously on the “Darknet.” This workshop shows you how to create Tor Onion services for Web sites through free tools like OnionShare, and even by setting up Tor servers that are built and configured from scratch manually. You’ll learn… (read more)Performances by
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Getting the Right Stuff: Introduction to Data Files, Spreadsheets, and Databases
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Privacy Defender Webinar Ticket $70Privacy Defender tickets are the recommended ticket type for those who can afford to help fund the digital security and online privacy advocacy communities with their financial resources, are attending the workshop with the support of their employers or other backers, or have other resources available to them. Purchasing tickets at this level makes it possible for us to offer reduced price tickets to those in need.
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Reduced price admission (for queer-identified, femme, and BIPOC people) $25Reduced price workshop tickets help offset systemic biases prevalent in society and in the technology sector especially.
Prices shown may exclude nominal handling fees.
Thank you for purchasing a ticket to our upcoming “Getting the Right Stuff: Introduction to Data Files, Spreadsheets, and Databases” webinar. Please allow several minutes for delivery of your webinar access credentials to the email address associated with your payment processor account. Remember to check your spam folder, as well!
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Learn how to collect, generate, and manipulate data of all kinds so that you can make decisions and meet the challenges you’re facing. You’ll see how simple, text-based data files and command-line utilities have been and are still being used in all sorts of applications today, what spreadsheets have to… (read more)Performances by
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Free Guided Tour of Tech Learning Collective Foundations
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Just getting started learning computer technologies? Join Tech Learning Collective instructors for this free, guided tour of the Tech Learning Collective Foundations curriculum. These self-paced courses and practice labs are great for jump-starting your learning as they introduce you to the most important foundations of Tech Learning Collective course material,… (read more)Performances by
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Exploring Cyberspace: Network Sniffing and Scanning
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Privacy Defender Webinar Ticket $70Privacy Defender tickets are the recommended ticket type for those who can afford to help fund the digital security and online privacy advocacy communities with their financial resources, are attending the workshop with the support of their employers or other backers, or have other resources available to them. Purchasing tickets at this level makes it possible for us to offer reduced price tickets to those in need.
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Reduced price admission (for queer-identified, femme, and BIPOC people) $25Reduced price workshop tickets help offset systemic biases prevalent in society and in the technology sector especially.
Prices shown may exclude nominal handling fees.
Thank you for purchasing a ticket to our upcoming “Exploring Cyberspace: Network Sniffing and Scanning” webinar. Please allow several minutes for delivery of your webinar access credentials to the email address associated with your payment processor account. Remember to check your spam folder, as well!
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Come exploring with us as we show you how to map out interconnections between computers, trace packet routes across network gateways, and find information about network operators. In this workshop all about the voyages of frames, packets, and segments, we use tools like nmap to send probes into cyberspace and… (read more)Performances by
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What's in a Name: Understanding the Domain Name System
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Privacy Defender Webinar Ticket $70Privacy Defender tickets are the recommended ticket type for those who can afford to help fund the digital security and online privacy advocacy communities with their financial resources, are attending the workshop with the support of their employers or other backers, or have other resources available to them. Purchasing tickets at this level makes it possible for us to offer reduced price tickets to those in need.
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Reduced price admission (for queer-identified, femme, and BIPOC people) $25Reduced price workshop tickets help offset systemic biases prevalent in society and in the technology sector especially.
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Find out how easy it is to avoid certain forms of Internet censorship, phishing attacks, or network outages in this primer to the Domain Name System or DNS. Far from being just a way to translate names like Google.com into IP addresses, the DNS is actually a massively distributed, delegated… (read more)Performances by
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Taming Daemons: System Administration and Operation Basics
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Privacy Defender Webinar Ticket $70Privacy Defender tickets are the recommended ticket type for those who can afford to help fund the digital security and online privacy advocacy communities with their financial resources, are attending the workshop with the support of their employers or other backers, or have other resources available to them. Purchasing tickets at this level makes it possible for us to offer reduced price tickets to those in need.
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Reduced price admission (for queer-identified, femme, and BIPOC people) $25Reduced price workshop tickets help offset systemic biases prevalent in society and in the technology sector especially.
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Thank you for purchasing a ticket to our upcoming “Taming Daemons: System Administration and Operation Basics” webinar. Please allow several minutes for delivery of your webinar access credentials to the email address associated with your payment processor account. Remember to check your spam folder, as well!
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Most individuals with access to a computer system have more power today than ever before, but rarely do they make use of it or even know how much power they truly have. In this beginner’s workshop, you’ll begin learning how to “speak with the machines.” By learning to communicate more… (read more)Performances by
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Automate All the Things: A Primer to Infrastructure as Code
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Privacy Defender Webinar Ticket $70Privacy Defender tickets are the recommended ticket type for those who can afford to help fund the digital security and online privacy advocacy communities with their financial resources, are attending the workshop with the support of their employers or other backers, or have other resources available to them. Purchasing tickets at this level makes it possible for us to offer reduced price tickets to those in need.
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Reduced price admission (for queer-identified, femme, and BIPOC people) $25Reduced price workshop tickets help offset systemic biases prevalent in society and in the technology sector especially.
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Learn how to make your own Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), automatically install software on the servers in your cloud, and write executable runbooks to automatically perform upgrades and other maintenance with the press of a button. With today’s modern automation toolkits, a two-person hobby project can outperform a 100-person company,… (read more)Performances by
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World Wide Wars: Introduction to Exploiting Web Applications
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Privacy Defender Webinar Ticket $70Privacy Defender tickets are the recommended ticket type for those who can afford to help fund the digital security and online privacy advocacy communities with their financial resources, are attending the workshop with the support of their employers or other backers, or have other resources available to them. Purchasing tickets at this level makes it possible for us to offer reduced price tickets to those in need.
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Reduced price admission (for queer-identified, femme, and BIPOC people) $25Reduced price workshop tickets help offset systemic biases prevalent in society and in the technology sector especially.
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Learn the basics of website security auditing in this hands-on workshop that will introduce you to the OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP), a free, open source Web application security scanner and intercepting proxy. We’ll get set up with a practice target against which you can launch live-fire (but legal and… (read more)Performances by
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Tor: What is it Good For? (Absolutely Everything!)
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Privacy Defender Webinar Ticket $70Privacy Defender tickets are the recommended ticket type for those who can afford to help fund the digital security and online privacy advocacy communities with their financial resources, are attending the workshop with the support of their employers or other backers, or have other resources available to them. Purchasing tickets at this level makes it possible for us to offer reduced price tickets to those in need.
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Reduced price admission (for queer-identified, femme, and BIPOC people) $25Reduced price workshop tickets help offset systemic biases prevalent in society and in the technology sector especially.
Prices shown may exclude nominal handling fees.
Thank you for purchasing a ticket to our upcoming “Tor: What is it Good For? (Absolutely Everything!)” webinar. Please allow several minutes for delivery of your webinar access credentials to the email address associated with your payment processor account. Remember to check your spam folder, as well!
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Come learn how the free Tor Web Browser can be your gateway to the Dark Web while simultaneously keeping you safer and your personal info more private as you browse web sites big and small. In this deep dive workshop on Tor, the Tech Learning Collective’s cybersecurity trainers will show… (read more)Performances by
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Clearing Away the Clouds: How Computer Networks, Servers, and the Internet Work
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Privacy Defender Webinar Ticket $70Privacy Defender tickets are the recommended ticket type for those who can afford to help fund the digital security and online privacy advocacy communities with their financial resources, are attending the workshop with the support of their employers or other backers, or have other resources available to them. Purchasing tickets at this level makes it possible for us to offer reduced price tickets to those in need.
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Reduced price admission (for queer-identified, femme, and BIPOC people) $25Reduced price workshop tickets help offset systemic biases prevalent in society and in the technology sector especially.
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Thank you for purchasing a ticket to our upcoming “Clearing Away the Clouds: How Computer Networks, Servers, and the Internet Work” webinar. Please allow several minutes for delivery of your webinar access credentials to the email address associated with your payment processor account. Remember to check your spam folder, as well!
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Learn the basics of computer networking in this workshop that starts by watching a “conversation” between two computers as it’s happening in real time. You’ll be introduced to the free professional network analysis application called Wireshark so that you can listen in on what the programs on your computer are… (read more)Performances by
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File Sharing for Fun and Profit: How BitTorrent Works and What You Can Do With It
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Privacy Defender Webinar Ticket $70Privacy Defender tickets are the recommended ticket type for those who can afford to help fund the digital security and online privacy advocacy communities with their financial resources, are attending the workshop with the support of their employers or other backers, or have other resources available to them. Purchasing tickets at this level makes it possible for us to offer reduced price tickets to those in need.
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Reduced price admission (for queer-identified, femme, and BIPOC people) $25Reduced price workshop tickets help offset systemic biases prevalent in society and in the technology sector especially.
Prices shown may exclude nominal handling fees.
Thank you for purchasing a ticket to our upcoming “File Sharing for Fun and Profit: How BitTorrent Works and What You Can Do With It” webinar. Please allow several minutes for delivery of your webinar access credentials to the email address associated with your payment processor account. Remember to check your spam folder, as well!
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BitTorrent, the wildly popular but often maligned file sharing protocol, is now being used in everything from (legal!) video streaming sites to corporate software update servers, but you wouldn’t know that if you only listened to Big Media groups like the RIAA. In this beginner-friendly workshop, we’ll bust BitTorrent myths… (read more)Performances by
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Collaboration Across Universes: Basics of Version Control with Git
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Privacy Defender Webinar Ticket $70Privacy Defender tickets are the recommended ticket type for those who can afford to help fund the digital security and online privacy advocacy communities with their financial resources, are attending the workshop with the support of their employers or other backers, or have other resources available to them. Purchasing tickets at this level makes it possible for us to offer reduced price tickets to those in need.
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Reduced price admission (for queer-identified, femme, and BIPOC people) $25Reduced price workshop tickets help offset systemic biases prevalent in society and in the technology sector especially.
Prices shown may exclude nominal handling fees.
Thank you for purchasing a ticket to our upcoming “Collaboration Across Universes: Basics of Version Control with Git” webinar. Please allow several minutes for delivery of your webinar access credentials to the email address associated with your payment processor account. Remember to check your spam folder, as well!
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Ever work on a project with other people? Of course you do. If you’ve been saving files with names like “Project-outline-1” and then saving another version of that file as “Project-outline-2” then you already understand the importance of a Version Control System (VCS). In this beginner’s workshop, you’ll see the… (read more)Performances by
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The Genesis Project: Making and Maintaining Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform
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Privacy Defender Webinar Ticket $70Privacy Defender tickets are the recommended ticket type for those who can afford to help fund the digital security and online privacy advocacy communities with their financial resources, are attending the workshop with the support of their employers or other backers, or have other resources available to them. Purchasing tickets at this level makes it possible for us to offer reduced price tickets to those in need.
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Reduced price admission (for queer-identified, femme, and BIPOC people) $25Reduced price workshop tickets help offset systemic biases prevalent in society and in the technology sector especially.
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Thank you for purchasing a ticket to our upcoming “The Genesis Project: Making and Maintaining Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform” webinar. Please allow several minutes for delivery of your webinar access credentials to the email address associated with your payment processor account. Remember to check your spam folder, as well!
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Learn to manage your own Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) datacenter environment and make the most of cloud infrastructure providers (“IaaS platforms”) by automatically deploying underlying infrastructure, including network topology, firewall rulesets, DNS records, and other resources. This intermediate-level workshop introduces you to Terraform, a free, agentless, masterless, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) digital… (read more)Performances by
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