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Infuse your awk scripts with Groovy Chris Hermansen Sat, 09/03/2022 - 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like

Recently I wrote a series on using Groovy scripts to clean up the tags in my music files. I developed a framework that recognized the structure of my music directory and used it to iterate over the content files. In the final article of that series, I separated this framework into a utility class that my scripts could use to process the content files.

This separate framework reminded me a lot of the way awk works. For those of you unfamiliar with awk, you might benefit from Opensource.com's eBook, A practical guide to learning awk.

I have used awk extensively since 1984, when our little company bought its first "real" computer, which ran System V Unix. For me, awk was a revelation: It had associative memory— think arrays indexed by strings instead of numbers. It had regular expressions built in, seemed designed to deal with data, especially in columns, and was compact and easy to learn. Finally, it was designed to work in Unix pipelines, reading its data from standard input or files and writing to output, with no ceremony required to do so—data just appeared in the input stream.

To say that awk has been an essential part of my day-to-day computing toolkit is an understatement. And yet there are a few things about how I use awk that leave me unsatisfied.

Probably the main issue is that awk is good at dealing with data presented in delimited fields but curiously not good at handling comma-separated-value files, which can have field delimiters embedded within a field, provided that the field is quoted. Also, regular expressions have moved on since awk was invented, and needing to remember two sets of regular expression syntax rules is not conducive to bug-free code. One set of such rules is bad enough.

Because awk is a small language, it's missing some things that I sometimes find useful, like a richer assortment of base types, structures, switch statements, and so on.

In contrast, Groovy has all of these good things: access to the OpenCSV library, which facilitates dealing with CSV files, Java regular expressions and great matching operators, a rich assortment of base types, classes, switch statements, and more.

What Groovy lacks is the simple pipeline-oriented view of data as an incoming stream and processed data as an outgoing stream.

But my music directory processing framework made me think, maybe I can create a Groovy version of awk's "engine". That's my objective for this article.

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Groovy is based on Java and requires a Java installation. Both a recent and decent version of Java and Groovy might be in your Linux distribution's repositories. Groovy can also be installed following the instructions on the Groovy homepage. A nice alternative for Linux users is SDKMan, which can be used to get multiple versions of Java, Groovy and many other related tools. For this article, I'm using SDK's releases of:

• Java: version 11.0.12-open of OpenJDK 11;
• Groovy: version 3.0.8.

Creating awk with Groovy

The basic idea here is to encapsulate the complexities of opening a file or files for processing, splitting the line into fields, and providing access to the stream of data in three parts:

• Before any data is processed
• On each line of data
• After all data is processed

I'm not going for the general case of replacing awk with Groovy. Instead, I'm working toward my typical use case, which is:

• Use a script file rather than having the code on the command line
• Process one or more input files
• Set my default field delimiter to | and split lines read on that delimiter
• Use OpenCSV to do the splitting (what I can't do in awk)

The framework class

Here's the "awk engine" in a Groovy class:

 1 @Grab('com.opencsv:opencsv:5.6')
 2 import com.opencsv.CSVReader
 3 public class AwkEngine {
 4 // With admiration and respect for
 5 //     Alfred Aho
 6 //     Peter Weinberger
 7 //     Brian Kernighan
 8 // Thank you for the enormous value
 9 // brought my job by the awk
10 // programming language
11 Closure onBegin
12 Closure onEachLine
13 Closure onEnd

14 private String fieldSeparator
15 private boolean isFirstLineHeader
16 private ArrayList<String> fileNameList
   
17 public AwkEngine(args) {
18     this.fileNameList = args
19     this.fieldSeparator = "|"
20     this.isFirstLineHeader = false
21 }
   
22 public AwkEngine(args, fieldSeparator) {
23     this.fileNameList = args
24     this.fieldSeparator = fieldSeparator
25     this.isFirstLineHeader = false
26 }
   
27 public AwkEngine(args, fieldSeparator, isFirstLineHeader) {
28     this.fileNameList = args
29     this.fieldSeparator = fieldSeparator
30     this.isFirstLineHeader = isFirstLineHeader
31 }
   
32 public void go() {
33     this.onBegin()
34     int recordNumber = 0
35     fileNameList.each { fileName ->
36         int fileRecordNumber = 0
37         new File(fileName).withReader { reader ->
38             def csvReader = new CSVReader(reader,
39                 this.fieldSeparator.charAt(0))
40             if (isFirstLineHeader) {
41                 def csvFieldNames = csvReader.readNext() as
42                     ArrayList<String>
43                 csvReader.each { fieldsByNumber ->
44                     def fieldsByName = csvFieldNames.
45                         withIndex().
46                         collectEntries { name, index ->
47                             [name, fieldsByNumber[index]]
48                         }
49                     this.onEachLine(fieldsByName,
50                             recordNumber, fileName,
51                             fileRecordNumber)
52                     recordNumber++
53                     fileRecordNumber++
54                 }
55             } else {
56                 csvReader.each { fieldsByNumber ->
57                     this.onEachLine(fieldsByNumber,
58                         recordNumber, fileName,
59                         fileRecordNumber)
60                     recordNumber++
61                     fileRecordNumber++
62                 }
63             }
64         }
65     }
66     this.onEnd()
67 }
68 }

While this looks like a fair bit of code, many of the lines are continuations of a split longer lines (for example, normally you would combine lines 38 and 39, lines 41 and 42, and so on). Let's look at this line by line.

Line 1 uses the @Grab annotation to fetch the OpenCSV library version 5.6 from Maven Central. No XML required.

In line 2, I import OpenCSV's CSVReader class.

In line 3, just as with Java, I declare a public utility class, AwkEngine.

Lines 11-13 define the Groovy Closure instances used by the script as hooks into this class. These are "public by default" as is the case with any Groovy class—but Groovy creates the fields as private and external references to these (using getters and setters provided by Groovy). I'll explain that further in the sample scripts below.

Lines 14-16 declare the private fields—the field separator, a flag to indicate whether the first line of a file is a header, and a list for the file name.

Lines 17-31 define three constructors. The first receives the command line arguments. The second receives the field separator character. The third receives the flag indicating whether the first line is a header or not.

Lines 31-67 define the engine itself, as the go() method.

Line 33 calls the onBegin() closure (equivalent to the awk BEGIN {} statement).

Line 34 initializes the recordNumber for the stream (equivalent to the awk NR variable) to 0 (note I am doing 0-origin here rather than the awk 1-origin).

Lines 35-65 use each {} to loop over the list of files to be processed.

Line 36 initializes the fileRecordNumber for the file (equivalent to the awk FNR variable) to 0 (0-origin, not 1-origin).

Lines 37-64 get a Reader instance for the file and process it.

Lines 38-39 get a CSVReader instance.

Line 40 checks to see whether the first line is being treated as a header.

If the first line is being treated as a header, then lines 41-42 get the list of field header names from the first record.

Lines 43-54 process the rest of the records.

Lines 44-48 copy the field values into the map of name:value.

Lines 49-51 call the onEachLine() closure (equivalent to what appears in an awk program between BEGIN {} and END {}, though no pattern can be attached to make the execution conditional), passing in the map of name:value, the stream record number, the file name and the file record number.

Lines 52-53 increment the stream record number and file record number.

Otherwise:

Lines 56-62 process the records.

Lines 57-59 call the onEachLine() closure, passing in the array of field values, the stream record number, the file name and the file record number.

Lines 60-61 increment the stream record number and file record number.

Line 66 calls the onEnd() closure (equivalent to the awk END {}).

That's it for the framework. Now you can compile it:

$ groovyc AwkEngine.groovy

A couple of comments:

If an argument is passed in that is not a file, the code fails with a standard Groovy stack trace, which looks something like this:

Caught: java.io.FileNotFoundException: not-a-file (No such file or directory)
java.io.FileNotFoundException: not-a-file (No such file or directory)
at AwkEngine$_go_closure1.doCall(AwkEngine.groovy:46)

OpenCSV tends to return String[] values, which are not as convenient as List values in Groovy (for example there is no each {} defined for an array). Lines 41-42 convert the header field value array into a list, so perhaps fieldsByNumber in line 57 should also be converted into a list.

Using the framework in scripts

Here's a very simple script using AwkEngine to examine a file like /etc/group, which is colon-delimited and has no header:

1 def ae = new AwkEngine(args, ‘:')
2 int lineCount = 0

3 ae.onBegin = {
4    println “in begin”
5 }

6 ae.onEachLine = { fields, recordNumber, fileName, fileRecordNumber ->
7    if (lineCount < 10)
8       println “fileName $fileName fields $fields”
9       lineCount++
10 }

11 ae.onEnd = {
12    println “in end”
13    println “$lineCount line(s) read”
14 }

15 ae.go()

Line 1 calls the two-argument constructor, passing in the argument list and the colon as delimiter.

Line 2 defines a script top-level variable, lineCount, used to record the count of lines read (note that Groovy closures don't require variables defined external to the closure to be final).

Lines 3-5 define the onBegin() closure, which just prints the string "in begin" on standard output.

Lines 6-10 define the onEachLine() closure, which prints the file name and the fields for the first 10 lines and in any case increments the line count.

Lines 11-14 define the onEnd() closure, which prints the string "in end" and the count of the number of lines read.

Line 15 runs the script using the AwkEngine.

Run this script as follows:

$ groovy Test1Awk.groovy /etc/group
in begin
fileName /etc/group fields [root, x, 0, ]
fileName /etc/group fields [daemon, x, 1, ]
fileName /etc/group fields [bin, x, 2, ]
fileName /etc/group fields [sys, x, 3, ]
fileName /etc/group fields [adm, x, 4, syslog,clh]
fileName /etc/group fields [tty, x, 5, ]
fileName /etc/group fields [disk, x, 6, ]
fileName /etc/group fields [lp, x, 7, ]
fileName /etc/group fields [mail, x, 8, ]
fileName /etc/group fields [news, x, 9, ]
in end
78 line(s) read
$

Of course the .class files created by compiling the framework class must be on the classpath for this to work. Naturally, you could use jar to package up those class files.

I really like Groovy's support for the delegation of behavior, which requires various shenanigans in other languages. For many years Java required anonymous classes and quite a bit of extra code. Lambdas have gone a long way to fixing this, but they still cannot refer to non-final variables outside their scope.

Here's another, more interesting script that is very reminiscent of my typical use of awk:

1 def ae = new AwkEngine(args, ‘;', true)
2 ae.onBegin = {
3    // nothing to do here
4 }

5 def regionCount = [:]
6    ae.onEachLine = { fields, recordNumber, fileName, fileRecordNumber ->
7    regionCount[fields.REGION] =
8    (regionCount.containsKey(fields.REGION) ?
9    regionCount[fields.REGION] : 0) +
10   (fields.PERSONAS as Integer)
11 }

12 ae.onEnd = {
13    regionCount.each { region, population ->
14    println “Region $region population $population”
15    }
16 }

17 ae.go()

Line 1 calls the three-argument constructor, recognizing that this is a "true CSV" file with the header being on the first line. Because it's a Spanish file, where the comma is used as the decimal "point", the standard delimiter is the semicolon.

Lines 2-4 define the onBegin() closure which in this case doesn't do anything.

Line 5 defines an (empty) LinkedHashMap, which you will fill with String keys and Integer values. The data file is from Chile's most recent census and you are calculating the number of people in each region of Chile in this script.

Lines 6-11 processes the lines in the file (there are 180,500 including the header)—note that in this case, because you are defining line 1 as the CSV column headers, the fields parameter is going to be an instance of LinkedHashMap.

Lines 7-10 increment the regionCount map, using the value in the field REGION as the key and the value in the field PERSONAS as the value—note that, unlike awk, in Groovy you can't refer to a non-existent map entry on the right-hand side and expect a blank or zero value to materialize.

Lines 12- 16 print out population by region.

Line 17 runs the script on the AwkEngine instance.

Run this script as follows:

$ groovy Test2Awk.groovy ~/Downloads/Censo2017/ManzanaEntidad_CSV/Censo*csv
Region 1 population 330558
Region 2 population 607534
Region 3 population 286168
Region 4 population 757586
Region 5 population 1815902
Region 6 population 914555
Region 7 population 1044950
Region 8 population 1556805
Region 16 population 480609
Region 9 population 957224
Region 10 population 828708
Region 11 population 103158
Region 12 population 166533
Region 13 population 7112808
Region 14 population 384837
Region 15 population 226068
$

That's it. For those of you who love awk and yet would like a little more, I hope you enjoy this Groovy approach.

Awk and Groovy complement each other to create robust, useful scripts.

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So I thought a podcast might fill in the gaps for stuff I can’t – or don’t have time to – write out in full form. I always loved the idea of a podcast, but the good ones are usually in a longer format, and I knew I didn’t have time for that either. I was inspired by the format of the 10 Minute Podcast and figured if it can work for comedy, maybe it can work for information security!

Thus, the 7 Minute Security blog and its child podcast was born.

“7 Minute Security Podcast – because Brian makes the best jingles!” – Björn Kimminich, Product Group Lead Architecture Governance, Kuehne + Nagel (AG & Co.) KG

.avia-image-container.av-lmyn6uy-0c7d42a1c87af2e54a84b4946a2807fb .av-image-caption-overlay-center{ color:#ffffff; } Continuous Delivery

Hosted by Dave Farley

Explores ideas that help to produce Better Software Faster: Continuous Delivery, DevOps, TDD and Software Engineering.

Hosted by Dave Farley – a software developer who has done pioneering work in DevOps, CD, CI, BDD, TDD and Software Engineering. Dave has challenged conventional thinking and led teams to build world class software.

Dave is co-author of the award wining book – “Continuous Delivery”, and a popular conference speaker on Software Engineering. He built one of the world’s fastest financial exchanges, is a pioneer of BDD, an author of the Reactive Manifesto, and winner of the Duke award for open source software – the LMAX Disruptor.

“Dave Farley’s videos are a treasure trove of knowledge that took me and others years to uncover when we were starting out. His focus on engineering and business outcomes rather than processes and frameworks is a breath of fresh air. If you only have time for one source of information, use his. – Bryan Finster, Value Stream Architect, Defense Unicorns

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The Prof G Show

Hosted by Scott Galloway

A fast and fluid weekly thirty minute show where Scott tears into the taxonomy of the tech business with unfiltered, data-driven insights, bold predictions, and thoughtful advice.

“Very current very modern. Business and tech oriented. Talks about markets and economics and people and tech.” – Caroline Wong, Chief Strategy Officer, Cobalt

.avia-image-container.av-icqbb5m-4400ad2ebd7ecda77e6bee815b008ca0 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{ color:#ffffff; } Open Source Security Podcast

Hosted by Josh Bressers and Kurt Seifried

Open Source Security is a collaboration by Josh Bressers and Kurt Seifried. We publish the Open Source Security Podcast and the Open Source Security Blog.

We have a security tabletop game that Josh created some time ago. Rather than play a boring security tabletop exercise, what if had things like dice and fun? Take a look at the Dungeons and Data tabletop game

“It has been something I’ve been listening to a lot lately with all of the focus on Software Supply Chain Security and Open Source Security. The hosts have very deep software and security backgrounds but keep the show light-hearted and engaging as well. ” – Chris Hughes, CISO, Co-Founder Aquia Inc

.avia-image-container.av-giw4nwa-3e3706a6cf64a728ade81f57b6a3c150 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{ color:#ffffff; } Pivot

Hosted by Kara Swisher and Professor Scott Galloway

Every Tuesday and Friday, tech journalist Kara Swisher and NYU Professor Scott Galloway offer sharp, unfiltered insights into the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics. They make bold predictions, pick winners and losers, and bicker and banter like no one else. After all, with great power comes great scrutiny. From New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network.

“As a rule, I don’t listen to tech podcasts much at all, since I write about tech almost all day. I check out podcasts about theater or culture — about as far away from my day job as I can get. However, I follow a ‘man-about-town’ guy named George Hahn on social media, who’s a lot of fun. Last year, he mentioned he’d be a guest host of the ‘Pivot’ podcast with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway, so I checked out Pivot. It’s about tech but it’s also about culture, politics, business, you name it. So that’s become the podcast I dip into when I want to hear a bit about tech, but in a cocktail-party/talk show kind of way.” – Christine Kent, Communications Strategist, Christine Kent Communications

.avia-image-container.av-eexgg3e-a387e541d55f914c56692a07d20b2be7 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{ color:#ffffff; } The Idealcast

Hosted by Gene Kim

Conversations with experts about the important ideas changing how organizations compete and win. In The Idealcast, multiple award-winning CTO, researcher and bestselling author Gene Kim hosts technology and business leaders to explore the dangerous, shifting digital landscape. Listeners will hear insights and gain solutions to help their enterprises thrive in an evolving business world.

“I like this because it has a good balance of technical and culture/leadership content.” – Courtney Kissler, CTO, Zulily

.avia-image-container.av-cq0kosa-38fbe959f3ef6cb7325cc2348ad3b419 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{ color:#ffffff; } TrustedSec Security Podcast

Hosted by Dave Kennedy and Various Team Contributors

Our team records a regular podcast covering the latest security news and stories in an entertaining and informational discussion. Hear what our experts are thinking and talking about.

“I LOVE LOVE LOVE the TrustedSec Security Podcast. Dave Kennedy’s team puts on a very nice and often deeply technical conversation every two weeks. The talk about timely topics from today’s headlines as well as jumping into purple team hackery which is a real treat to listen in and learn from.” – CRob Robinson, Director of Security Communications Intel Product Assurance and Security, Intel

.avia-image-container.av-au3ba56-5fb063234f87e2f1dd570eb9166abc47 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{ color:#ffffff; } Profound Podcast

Hosted by John Willis

Ramblings about W. Edwards Deming in the digital transformation era. The general idea of the podcast is derived from Dr. Demming’s seminal work described in his New Economics book – System of Profound Knowledge ( SoPK ). We’ll try and get a mix of interviews from IT, Healthcare, and Manufacturing with the goal of aligning these ideas with Digital Transformation possibilities. Everything related to Dr. Deming’s ideas is on the table (e.g., Goldratt, C.I. Lewis, Ohno, Shingo, Lean, Agile, and DevOps).

“I don’t listen to podcasts much these days (found that consuming books via audible was more useful… but I guess it all depends on how emerging the topics are you are interested in). I only mention this as I am thin I recommendations. I’d go with John Willis’s Profound or Gene Kim’s Idealcast. Some overlap in (world class) guests but different interview approaches and perspectives.” – Damon Edwards, Sr. Director, Product PagerDuty

.avia-image-container.av-8yesy3e-577769d80ec789c30e572270bd51b54c .av-image-caption-overlay-center{ color:#ffffff; } Security Now

Hosted by Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Stay up-to-date and deepen your cybersecurity acumen with Security Now. On this long-running podcast, cybersecurity authority Steve Gibson and technology expert Leo Laporte bring their extensive and historical knowledge to explore digital security topics in depth. Each week, they take complex issues and break them down for clarity and big-picture understanding. And they do it all in an approachable, conversational style infused with their unique sense of humor. Listen and subscribe, and stay on top of the constantly changing world of Internet security. Security Now records every Tuesday afternoon and hits your podcatcher later that evening.

“The shows cover a wide range of security topics, from the basics of technologies such as DNSSec & Bitcoin, to in depth, tech analysis of the latest hacks hitting the news, The main host, Steve Gibson, is great at breaking down tech subjects over an audio . It’s running at over 800 episodes now, regular as clockwork every week, so you can rely on it. Funnily Steve Gibson has often reminded me of you – able to assess what’s going on with a subject, calmly find the important points, and describe them to the rest of us in way that’s engaging and relatable.medium – in a way you can follow and be interested in during your commute or flight.” – Gary Robinson, Chief Security Officer, Ulseka

.avia-image-container.av-75hlpqy-9733a851db993f166539717f2d45517f .av-image-caption-overlay-center{ color:#ffffff; } The Jordan Harbinger Show

Hosted by Jordan Harbinger

Today, The Jordan Harbinger Show has over 15 million downloads per month and features a wide array of guests like Kobe Bryant, Moby, Dennis Rodman, Tip “T.I.” Harris, Tony Hawk, Cesar Millan, Simon Sinek, Eric Schmidt, and Neil deGrasse Tyson, to name a few. Jordan continues to teach his skills, for free, at 6-Minute Networking. In addition to hosting The Jordan Harbinger Show, Jordan is a consultant for law enforcement, military, and security companies and is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

“Excellent podcasts where he interviews people from literally every walk of life, how they have become successful, why they have failed (if they have) as well as great personal development coaching ideas.” – Jeff DeVerter, CTO, Products and Services, RackSpace

.avia-image-container.av-559yly2-701ef6bc2dca3ef855a2adb8e72690a3 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{ color:#ffffff; } WorkLife with Adam Grant

Hosted by Adam Grant

Adam hosts WorkLife, a chart-topping TED original podcast. His TED talks on languishing, original thinkers, and givers and takers have been viewed more than 30 million times. His speaking and consulting clients include Google, the NBA, Bridgewater, and the Gates Foundation. He writes on work and psychology for the New York Times, has served on the Defense Innovation Board at the Pentagon, has been honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, and has appeared on Billions.

“I don’t listen to many technical podcasts. I like Caroline Wongs and have listened to it a number of times (Humans of InfoSec) but since much of my role is getting developers on board with security actions, I gravitate toward more psychology based podcasts – Adam Grant’s is amazing (it’s called WorkLife).” – Jennifer Czaplewski, Senior Director, Cyber Security, Target

“You know lately I have been listening to WorkLife with Adam Grant. Not a tech podcast but a management one.” – Paula Thrasher, Senior Director Infrastructure, PagerDuty

.avia-image-container.av-3glamsa-7118ea9faeb3a9bd9cabd5f4d7d3ddbb .av-image-caption-overlay-center{ color:#ffffff; } SRE Prodcast

Hosted by Core Team Members:  Betsy Beyer, MP English, Salim Virji, Viv

The Google Prodcast Team has gone through quite a few iterations and hiatuses over the years, and many people have had a hand in its existence. For the longest time, a handful of SREs produced the Prodcast for the listening pleasure of the other engineers here at Google.

We wanted to make something that would be of interest to folks across organizations and technical implementations. In his last act as part of the Prodcast, JTR put us in touch with Jennifer Petoff, Director of SRE Education, in order to have the support of the SRE organization behind us.

“The SRE Prodcast is Google’s podcast about Site Reliability Engineering and production software. In Season 1, we discuss concepts from the SRE Book with experts at Google.” – Jennifer Petoff, Director, Program Management, Cloud Technical Education Google

.avia-image-container.av-1pa55x6-e7b263c970b6aca7b2840944d6d8d269 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{ color:#ffffff; } Make Me Smart

Hosted by Kai Ryssdal And Kimberly Adams

Every weekday, Kai Ryssdal and Kimberly Adams break down the news in tech, the economy and culture. How do companies make money from disinformation? How can we tackle student debt? Why do 401(k)s exist? What will it take to keep working moms from leaving the workforce? Together, we dig into complex topics to help make today make sense

“I literally learn 3 new things about topics i never would have tried to learn about.” – Kadi Grigg, Enablement Specialist, Sonatype

.avia-image-container.av-l6y2x04u-fce910e15aca4447bd39dd8499b28919 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{ color:#ffffff; } EconTalk

Hosted by Russ Roberts

Conversations for the Curious is an award-winning weekly podcast hosted by Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford’s Hoover Institution. The eclectic guest list includes authors, doctors, psychologists, historians, philosophers, economists, and more. Learn how the health care system really works, the serenity that comes from humility, the challenge of interpreting data, how potato chips are made, what it’s like to run an upscale Manhattan restaurant, what caused the 2008 financial crisis, the nature of consciousness, and more.

“The only podcast I listen to is actually EconTalk, which has nothing to do with tech!” – Kelly Shortridge, Senior Principal, Product Technology, Fastly

.avia-image-container.av-l6y2zyoi-46121d487109bdfab1c116d1a46a4896 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{ color:#ffffff; } Leading the Future of Work

Hosted by Jacob Morgan

The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan is a unique show that explores how the world of
work is changing, and what we need to do in order to thrive. Each week several episodes are
released which range from long-form interviews with the world’s top business leaders and
authors to shorter form episodes which provide a strategy or tip that listeners can apply to
become more successful.

The show is hosted by 4x best-selling author, speaker and futurist Jacob Morgan and the
goal is to give listeners the inspiration, the tools, and the resources they need to succeed
and grow at work and in life.

Episodes are not scripted which makes for fun, authentic, engaging, and educational
episodes filled with insights and practical advice.

“It is hard for me to keep up with podcasts. The one I listen to regularly is “Leading The Future of Work” by Jacob Morgan. I know it is not technical, but I think it is extremely important for technical people to understand what the business thinks and is concerned about.” – Keyaan Williams, Managing Director, CLASS-LLC

.avia-image-container.av-l6y31m9n-aaa0a39586953a245725e38c846507f8 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{ color:#ffffff; } Hacking Humans

Hosted by Dave Bittner and Joe Carrigan

Deception, influence, and social engineering in the world of cyber crime.

Join Dave Bittner and Joe Carrigan each week as they look behind the social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines and taking a heavy toll on organizations around the world.

“In case we needed any reminders that humanity is a scary place.” – Matt Howard, SVP and CMO, Virtu

.avia-image-container.av-l6y33c7z-bb5a79ad7d182a2135ca6209fa716811 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{ color:#ffffff; } Cloud SecurityPodcast

Hosted by Ashish Rajan, Shilpi Bhattacharjee, and Various Contributors

Cloud Security Podcast is a WEEKLY Video and Audio Podcast that brings in-depth cloud security knowledge to you from the best and brightest cloud security experts and leaders in the industry each week over our LIVE STREAMs.

We are the FIRST podcast that carved the niche for Cloud Security in late 2019. As of 2021, the large cloud service providers (Azure, Google Cloud, etc.) have all followed suit and started their own cloud security podcasts. While we recommend you listen to their podcasts as well, we’re the ONLY VENDOR NEUTRAL podcast in the space and will preserve our neutrality indefinitely.

“I really love Ashish’s cloud security podcast, listened to it for a while now. He gets really good people on it and it’s a nice laid back listen, too.” – Simon Maple, Field CTO, Snyk

.avia-image-container.av-l6y34iei-e60dc88e51f22de7e62a398d9cf60ae1 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{ color:#ffffff; } DSO Overflow

Hosted by Glenn Wilson, Steve Giguere, Jessica Cregg

In depth conversations with influencers blurring the lines between Dev, Sec, and Ops!

We speak with professionals working in cyber security, software engineering and operations to talks about a number of DevSecOps topics. We discuss how organisations factor security into their product delivery cycles without compromising the value of doing DevOps and Agile.

“One of my favourite meetups in London ‘DevSecOps London Gathering’ has a podcast where they invite their speakers https://dsolg.com/#podcast” – Stefania Chaplin, Solutions Architect UK&I, GitLab

.avia-image-container.av-l6y35wkd-beb92d05021857b7ae31048922cb5231 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{ color:#ffffff; } Pardon the Interruption

Hosted by Tony Kornheiser and Mike Wilbon

Longtime sportswriters Tony Kornheiser and Mike Wilbon debate and discuss the hottest topics, issues and events in the world of sports in a provocative and fast-paced format.

Similar in format to Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert‘s At the Movies,[2][3] PTI is known for its humorous and often loud tone, as well as the “rundown” graphic which lists the topics yet to be discussed on the right-hand side of the screen. The show’s popularity has led to the creation of similar shows on ESPN and similar segments on other series, and the rundown graphic has since been implemented on the morning editions of SportsCenter, among many imitators.[4] – Wikipedia

“I’m interested in sports, and Tony and Mike are well-informed, amusing, and opinionated. It also doesn’t hurt any that I’ve known them since they were at The Washington Post and I was freelancing there. What you see on television, or hear on their podcast, is exactly how they are in real life. This sincerity of personality is a big reason why they’ve become so successful.” – Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Technology and business journalist and analyst. Red Ventures

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