Datadog Illuminated: OpenLineage — A Common Observability Framework for Data Pipelines, with Julien Le Dem

🌩️ Thunder: Build and Run AI Agents on Kubernetes with Kagent

Software Defined Interviews: Deming, DevOps History, AI Risk, and Critical Thinking, with John Willis

Datadog Illuminated: Evaluating the Datadog MCP Server, with Scott Yak

Here’s the finished board from my 🌩️ Thunder episode with Austin Parker.

GenAI success = happy user, not just a successful HTTP response.

Read the full board notes here: gist.github.com/wiggitywh…

Finished lightboard from the Making GenAI Observable with OpenTelemetry episode. The board shows sections on what OTel is (standard, software, specification), three angles for using OTel with GenAI, GenAI semantic conventions for chat conversations, and how OTel supports building GenAI features by pairing user feedback with performance data alongside system metrics.

Datadog Illuminated: OpenLineage — A Common Observability Framework for Data Pipelines, with Julien Le Dem

I love my brother so very much ♥

Morning walk in Williamsburg

Datadog DASH is a wrap! ♫

🌩️ Thunder: Build and Run AI Agents on Kubernetes with Kagent

KCD Texas: Livin' In the Future: Your Platform’s Next Interface Is an AI Agent

LLMday Austin: The Best Laid Spans: An AI Agent That Instruments Your Code with OpenTelemetry

SREday Austin: Livin' In the Future: Your Platform’s Next Interface Is an AI Agent

Software Defined Interviews: Deming, DevOps History, AI Risk, and Critical Thinking, with John Willis

🌩️ Thunder: What Are SPIFFE and SPIRE? Workload Identity Explained

⚡️Enlightning: Kagent: Bringing Agentic AI to Cloud Native (with Lin Sun)

With RBAC (role-based access control), you’re either an admin who can edit everything or a viewer who can edit nothing. There’s no “Whitney can edit this document but not that one” without custom application logic.

In this episode of 🌩️ Thunder, Raghd Hamzeh, OpenFGA maintainer at Auth0, explains relationship-based authorization. When Whitney shares a document with Raghd, you tell OpenFGA “Raghd is now an editor of this document.” Later, when Raghd tries to access it, OpenFGA already knows — no database calls, no runtime logic.

We cover how OpenFGA differs from RBAC and attribute-based systems, why sharing becomes trivially easy, how immutable authorization models let you test changes against production data safely, and what auditability looks like when permissions live outside your application code.

Watch now → youtu.be/HCniFFtEm…

Thunder episode thumbnail featuring Whitney Lee and Raghd Hamzeh. Large yellow text reads "OpenFGA" with subtitle "Relationship-Based Authorization at Scale". Whitney appears on the left laughing and pointing upward, wearing a denim jacket. Raghd appears on the right wearing glasses and a yellow shirt. A lightboard with authorization architecture diagrams is visible in the background. The Thunder logo appears in the top left corner.

🌩️ Thunder: What Are SPIFFE and SPIRE? Workload Identity Explained

⚡️Enlightning: ⚡️Enlightning — Kagent: Bringing Agentic AI to Cloud Native (with Lin Sun)

KCD Texas: Livin' In the Future: Your Platform’s Next Interface Is an AI Agent