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Friendly faces at Kubecon ♥

Stacey & Puerco’s AMAZING KubeCon keynote today!!! So fun & funny. Who knew supply chain security could make me laugh out loud!

♥ thanks so much for the shout out, friends

7am platform coffee! So many friends!!

٩꒰。•‿•。꒱۶ sunrise at KubeCon!

Platform Engineering Day: Let the Platform Build Itself: Using AI To Construct an Internal Developer Platform With CNCF Tools

AI Tools Lab: Real-Time Telemetry in Development: Using MCP and Datadog for AI-Assisted Coding

Atlanta ♫

eBook Contributor: Kubernetes World: Finding Your Path in the Cloud Native Ecosystem

CNCF Blog: Code-Level Telemetry Instrumentation: From “Oh Hell No” to “Worth It”

🌩️ Thunder: Observability 2.0 with OpenTelemetry: Make Signals Work Together

At the poll today the line was sooooooo long. Maybe 70 people! Every single parking spot in the big library lot was filled.

I vote in every election, and I’ve never seen it like this.

Today I did some self-reflection using Claude, and it told me this:

“Most people who can build elaborate demo automation scripts and understand Kubernetes attack vectors don’t also write code comments about spider mouth anatomy being ‘unholy nightmare fuel.’”

Hahaha. I feel seen.

Pixie: Instant Kubernetes Visibility with eBPF

Pixie is an observability tool that collects data from your applications without any instrumentation. ᕙ(`▽´)ᕗ In this new 🌩️ Thunder episode, Michelle Nguyen, a Pixie maintainer, explains how Pixie uses eBPF to capture network traffic, resource metrics, and CPU profiles while keeping sensitive data safely in-cluster and queries end-to-end encrypted. Watch the full 14-minute 🌩️ Thunder here: https://youtu.be/hZ-a72ggR1M

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On this beautiful, lazy Saturday morning, I’ve been exploring digital journaling and tools like Obsidian. Does anyone have a digital journaling flow they especially like?

Cows, Tech Careers, Working at Microsoft, and Even More About Cows, with Saad Ansari

It is a new episode of the Software Defined Interviews Podcast! In this one we talk a lot about cows.

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Personal Blog: Code-Level Telemetry Instrumentation: From “Oh Hell No” to “Worth It”

Code-Level Telemetry Instrumentation: From "Oh Hell No" to "Worth It"

Code instrumentation shouldn’t be a favor that developers do for platform engineers, it should be a platform feature that empowers developers with insight into their running applications and the surrounding system.

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