Other authorization techniques gather data at check time. OpenFGA stores relationships as they happen, so the answer is already there. No computation needed.

Lightboard notes from the OpenFGA ep of 🌩️Thunder with Raghd Hamzeh: gist.github.com/wiggitywh…

Completed lightboard from the OpenFGA episode of Thunder, with handwritten notes in multiple colors on a dark background. Sections include: Before OpenFGA, What is OpenFGA, OpenFGA is Relationship-Based Not Just RBAC with User/Relation/Object diagram, Some OpenFGA Use Cases, OpenFGA vs ABAC, Authorization Model, The Future, and Benefits of OpenFGA Process.

This lightboard from the Cilium episode of 🌩️Thunder with Duffie Cooley walks through how Cilium works, step by step.

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

A completed lightboard with handwritten diagrams and text in multiple colors. Sections cover eBPF basics, what Cilium is, a numbered step-by-step diagram showing how Cilium assigns pod identity and attaches eBPF programs to pod namespaces, and Cilium as a service mesh with use cases for encryption, load balancing, L7 network policy, and observability. Text and arrows in blue, green, yellow, and white cover the entire board.

Datadog Security Labs: Kubernetes project issues warning on Ingress NGINX retirement

[Keynote] Cloud Native Days Romania: Ozzie & Nova: A Kubernetes Security Play

🌩️ 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

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

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