KubeFM: From beginner’s mind to teaching Kubernetes: Learning in public and building community

🌩️ Thunder: Fluent Bit Explained: Data Pipelines for Observability

DevOps Paradox: KubeCon North America 2025 Review

Software Defined Interviews: Transformation, DevOps, Open Source, and Fast Food Operations, with Andrew Clay Shafer

Observability Day: How to Trust a Liar: Instrumenting AI Execution with OpenTelemetry

🌩️ Thunder: Logging Operator: Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Logging

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

Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day: This Lying Has to Stop: Keeping AI Honest with OpenTelemetry

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

MetalBear: What Cloud Native Looked Like in 2025: A Community Recap

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

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

Software Defined Interviews: The World Wide Web, Content, Work, Blogging Adventures, Short Videos, etc., with Russell Davies

🌩️ Thunder: Pixie: Instant Kubernetes Visibility with eBPF

Software Defined Interviews: Whitney goes to KubeCon

KCD UK: Keynote Speaker Panel

Cultivating My Own Quiet Corner of the Web

I love co-hosting the Software Defined Interviews podcast. Not only do I get to meet super cool people, but it’s a social situation where I’m allowed to ask prying questions. (◠‿・)—☆ This episode with Manton Reece, about micro.blog and digital journaling, affected me deeply. The idea of the IndieWeb resonates with me. I didn’t realize that I was craving a quiet digital space where cool people simply share cool stuff, with no public follower counts or ‘likes’ on posts, only genuine interaction.

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[Keynote] KCD UK: This Lying Has to Stop: Keeping AI Honest with OpenTelemetry