Hello, Does anyone here work in the DevOps domain at PayPal, US?
I am looking for a connection there, for help with a job req.

Hey everyone, Chi here 👋

Quick update on the AI Infra Summit 2026 (Sept 15–17, Santa Clara Convention Center) — a lot has changed since I last posted and wanted to flag it for anyone who missed it.

tl;dr: free tickets still available for engineers and technical leaders at qualifying enterprises and hyperscalers, worth $3,297, no catch.

What's dropped since last time:

🔷 Five Diamond Sponsors now confirmed - AWS, Intel, Qualcomm, Ambarella, and Oracle

🎤 Speaker additions worth knowing about:

• Jeff Dean — Chief Scientist & Technical Lead, Gemini (Google DeepMind)
• Peter DeSantis — SVP, Foundational AI Models, Custom Silicon & Quantum Computing (Amazon)
• Lip-Bu Tan — CEO (Intel)
• Ian Buck — VP, Hyperscale & HPC Computing (NVIDIA)
• Santosh Janardhan — VP, Infrastructure (Meta)
• Daniela Rus — Director, CSAIL (MIT)
• Jonathan Hurst — Co-Founder & Chief Robot Officer (Agility Robotics)
• 400 total across 8 stages
🆕 Also new this year is a dedicated Physical AI track covering humanoid robotics, autonomous systems and deployment. It's the first time we've done this at the summit.

We're 10 weeks out and spots are filling fast, so if you've been sitting on this, now's the time.

Apply: reg.kisacoresearch.com/submissions/696a168d8f1a0de3e1c774d9/69735576d4072b89834401d9

Full agenda: ai-infra-summit.com/2026agenda

DM me or drop a comment if you have any questions, I'm happy to help 🙌

Hey SweetOps! If you're the one dealing with data pipeline reliability and now getting pulled into RAG or LLM data work, this might be worth your time.

There's a hands on workshop on August 1 with Nikola Ilic, called "Designing Data Engineering Workflows for LLM Applications."

You build a full production ready pipeline live during the session, ingestion, chunking, metadata, embeddings, vector storage, retrieval, and evaluation. It also covers the batch versus incremental refresh question, along with versioning and monitoring once things are live, the same operational concerns you already deal with, just applied to RAG pipelines instead of traditional infrastructure.

You walk away with the source code, slides, and hands on lab files, plus a recording and certificate.

4 hours, code first throughout, Python and basic API/JSON familiarity required.

Full details here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/designing-data-engineering-workflows-for-llm-applications-hands-on-tickets…?aff=sop1

Anyone building/using AI agents to automate DevOps and SRE tasks? If yes, how are you handling memory?

Would love to have a quick chat about this

Hi there, it's been a minute, but I would like to share something I've been working on to help me manage my at-home projects. Managing 10+ tabs was altogether too much to manage. Meet flotilla, a chief of staff for the n things you have going on. Free, opensource, and solves my problem maybe it'll help you with yours as well: jim80net.github.io/flotilla

My free, open-source EC2 and RDS scheduler has supported multi-region, multi-account deployment since 2017.

I've just updated github.com/sqlxpert/lights-off-aws to let Terraform users in big AWS organizations increase deployment concurrency instead of accepting conservative defaults. Advanced users can deploy to non-uniform region, organizational unit and AWS account combinations, rather than to the simple Cartesian product, regions × OUs.

This feature request came all the way from a user in Finland, who was kind enough to write a basic PR.

I re-checked AWS's official solution, Instance Scheduler. Despite Instance Scheduler's complexity, broad permissions, and external dependencies, AWS still wasn't providing immutable releases as of June, 2026.

If you share my belief that simplicity is security, and if you care about independently-written alternatives to corporate software, please give Lights Off a try.

Hi everyone!

I'm currently partnering with Micro1, which is looking to onboard companies with 30–200 employees in the US, Europe, or LATAM for its Enterprise Data Partnership program.

If your company has well-documented processes and workflows and is interested in exploring a partnership with a leading AI company, I'd be happy to share more details and the referral link.

If this sounds relevant to your company or one you know, feel free to send me a DM.

I have a question. I heard multiple stories about a scam scheme where US citizens are used as proxies for getting a job in the US. Question is, why does someone need a US citizen for work? (Forgive me if this is a noob question). I'm EU/UK based, so I don't know about this problem in particular.

This is why I hate giving away my passport to KYC platforms!

blog.mousa-cloud.com/posts/reqrea-case

https://www.fernandoi.cl/posts/hackmyclaw/

I wrote an article not long ago which I think might be interesting for this community. Happy to hear your thoughts or ideas. Always open to discussions.
blog.mousa-cloud.com/posts/smb-common-mistake

TIL: Codex has quota resets.

hey everyone!

I'm sure AI agents is something everyone is looking at leveraging to help troubleshoot problems

I put an MVP in place and made it available here

I wrote an article about tools saturation. Give me please your thoughts

https://blog.mousa-cloud.com/posts/stop-developing-tools/

In the recent updates of Claude Code, the old models are added back, which seems to show its new model Fable 5 is gone forever.

are you pretending to work hard recently in AI era?

if you like soccer, I feel this world cup is different, better, more entertaining even in group matches

a quick thought if it helps: AI should not be used during a midnight upgrade or migration, if AI is used, a new maint window should be required

Stategraph is having its next demo day on the 24th.

This one's a deep dive on how Stategraph actually works under the hood, plus a look at Stategraph Cost. We'll get into how the dependency graph is stored in the schema, how surgical reads let you pull individual outputs via terraform_remote_state instead of locking the whole state, and how blast radius uses the graph to show exactly what a change touches before you apply.

Sign up here (pants optional): https://stategraph.com/demo-day

I’m testing the new model of Claude Fable 5 hope it will surprise me

the goal of Anthropic is to get everybody on 200$ plan and then push now 200 to 1000 even more

Hey everyone! Sharing something that's directly relevant to anyone running LLM agents in production.

We're hosting a hands on Agent Evals Bootcamp on June 27 with Ammar Mahanna, PhD, an AI engineer, researcher, educator and expert in production AI and agent evaluation. Someone who actually builds and evaluates production AI systems professionally.

The bootcamp is 4 hours live and you build 10 real evaluation notebooks on the day covering component level evaluation, outcome evaluation, LLM as judge, regression pipelines and production evaluation workflows. You leave with frameworks you can plug into your own systems from day one, not just course notes.

Most people building agents spend weeks tweaking prompts and swapping models but have no real way to measure what is actually better. This bootcamp fixes that.

Every attendee also gets 30 days recording access and a Packt endorsed certification that goes straight on your LinkedIn.

Full details here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agent-evals-bootcamp-tickets-1990306501323?aff=swops

PSA remember to tokenmax between now and 6/15 when Anthropic kills the Pro Max all you can eat buffet.

@dude I've been kicking the tires on Hermes Agent. Questions for you.

the more apps I developed, the less optimistic I think AI can bring to job market

with AI, it is easy to try different technologies, recently I used supabase to build a mobile app 🙂

hey everyone

I've put together an "SRE assistant" that you can run locally to help you troubleshoot and automate processes. The way I built it, it uses the memory and learnings from previous interactions and self-improves over time

Any thoughts/feedback would be super appreciated:

https://github.com/raia-live/sre-sample

Sharing a supply-chain hardening pass I did on a Kubeagent CLI, partly hoping to get holes poked in the threat model. (Disclosure: I build KubeAgent — agentless K8s monitor/remediator; runs from your kubectl context, no in-cluster agent, no kubeconfig sent anywhere.)

The npm worm wave (Shai-Hulud, then Mini Shai-Hulud across npm+PyPI) made me treat a dependency compromise as when, not if. What I landed on:
Reduce likelihood
• OIDC trusted publishing — killed the long-lived NPM_TOKEN (the exact credential those worms exfiltrate to self-propagate); releases now auth with a short-lived per-run GitHub token
• ignore-scripts=true so dependency postinstall/preinstall hooks don’t execute on install
• Every third-party GitHub Action pinned to a full commit SHA, not a moving tag (post-tj-actions/CVE-2025-30066); first-party actions/* on majors
• Dep tree kept to 7 direct packages so an advisory is actually reviewable; lockfiles + npm ci only
Reduce impact (the part I most want critique on)
• The tool holds no cluster credential server-side — no SA token, no stored kubeconfig, no inbound path. So a poisoned dependency’s blast radius is bounded to the operator machine that already has kubectl, rather than a centrally-held secret an attacker can pivot through.
Where I think I’m weakest: that last point bounds lateral movement but a malicious dep still runs with the operator’s local privileges — so it’s a reduction, not elimination. Am I framing that honestly, or overselling? And for those publishing CLIs from a private monorepo: provenance attestations aren’t possible (npm requires a public source repo) — how are you giving consumers verifiability without open-sourcing the backend?

does this reassure you? was this even a concern for you? genuinely want the pushback. 🙏

Hey Everyone,

This Saturday I'm building 10 AI projects in 5 hours with Claude Code
You can join this too !

Luca Berton is leading the session live, 5 hours of pure hands-on work

No slides. No theory dumps
Every session ends with a shipped project

Here's what we're building:

→ CLI tools
→ Full UI from a screenshot
→ CLAUDE.md project brain files
→ Test suites and refactor workflows
→ Production readiness reviews
→ Git discipline with AI-generated code

I'll also walk away with 10 downloadable Claude Skills and a Packt-endorsed certificate

I'll share everything I learn after

🔗 You can register too : https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/claude-code-bootcamp-tickets-1988549372704?aff=sl2

🎁 Coupon Code: PACKT40

Antigravity 2.0 is more like Codex UI than VS Code

a thought about licenses, with AI, not only SaaS biz is in big risk, but the open source licensing faces uncertainties even for those having BSL

https://nateglubish.substack.com/p/they-said-it-would-cost-54-million

Hey folks, we just launched Kunobi 1.0.0 and would love honest feedback from the community.
Kunobi is a local-first Kubernetes and GitOps workspace for teams working across clusters, Flux, ArgoCD, Helm, logs, and terminals. The goal is to reduce the constant jumping between Lens, k9s, GitOps CLIs, YAML diffs, and browser tabs just to understand what’s deployed where and what’s drifting.
1.0.0 includes a free Community Edition and demo clusters, so you can try it without connecting a real production environment first.
Would love feedback on whether this solves a real pain in your Kubernetes or GitOps workflow, what feels useful or confusing, and which integrations would matter most.
Launch details: https://kunobi.ninja/blog/kunobi-v1
Download: https://kunobi.ninja

Hey everyone 👋

I'm Chi, I I handle complimentary guesting for the AI Infra Summit 2026 (Sept 15-17, Santa Clara Convention Center) and wanted to share something that might be relevant to a few of you.

If you're working in AI infrastructure, cloud, DevOps or anything adjacent - there are complimentary tickets available (worth $3,297) for engineers and technical leaders at qualifying enterprises and hyperscalers. No catch, just a straightforward application process.

The event is pretty stacked this year - 8,000+ attendees, 400 speakers across 8 stages covering compute, data centers, physical AI, data movement and more. Jeff Dean is opening the main stage if that means anything to you! 😄

Full agenda here if you want to take a look before applying: 2026 agenda

Interested? Apply for your free ticket here: Registration link

And if you want to know more or just have questions, feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chipeters/

Happy to answer anything here too, just send me a DM! 🙌

Hey SweetOps! Sharing something we shipped today at Signadot.

signadot-validate is a skill that lets coding agents exercise their changes against the full microservice stack in their inner loop.

The motivation: in cloud-native systems the validation surface is huge, and unit tests and mocks only cover a small slice of it. We wanted to give agents a way to validate changes against the full system before a PR opens.

What it does: the agent discovers the cluster, spins up a lightweight ephemeral environment for its change (using Signadot), runs the modified service against real dependencies, validates through whatever test framework fits, and iterates on failures with live logs streaming back.

Full disclosure: needs Signadot CLI installed in a cluster. Free tier and playground available for trying it out, but it’s not a git clone and run situation.

GitHub
Docs link
Full writeup and demo video

Happy to answer questions in thread & appreciate any feedback

Hey SweetOps! Sharing this because it's directly relevant to what this community is building with every day.

If you're using Claude Code or thinking about it, Packt Publishing is running a hands on bootcamp on May 30 with Luca Berton — Anthropic certified Claude Code instructor, former Red Hat engineer, creator of the Ansible Pilot project, and speaker at KubeCon 2026 and Red Hat Summit 2026. This is someone who builds production grade AI systems for enterprises, not just talks about them.

What you actually get on the day:

10 real world projects built live — CLI tools, APIs, dashboards, git workflows, production readiness reports. You leave with a working portfolio not just notes.

A free downloadable Claude skills library — CLAUDE.md templates, code review prompts, test generation, security checklists, git workflows. Battle tested and ready to drop into your existing projects from day one.

Packt endorsed certification — pass the final assessment and it goes straight on your LinkedIn.

5 hours live, hands on throughout, 1 hour of open Q&A with Luca directly.

We've already got DevOps engineers, CTOs, engineering managers and SREs registered from the US and UK.

Full details here: https://claudecodebootcamp.eventbrite.co.uk/?aff=sps

https://rmoff.net/2026/05/06/ai-slop-is-killing-online-communities/

Is anybody here using Cloud Custodian? Curious what your experience has been and what use cases you use it for!

https://cloudcustodian.io